Daily Devotional – 2/28/13 “Stay in your struggle! (part 2)”

I started writing something else but the Holy Spirit just won’t allow me to leave this alone. I don’t know who this is meant for but baby, I stopped by to tell you to hold on. Yea, I know it doesn’t look good right now but just wait. I know that the storm clouds are hanging low and you feel like getting face down on the floor but just hold on. You may be without money and your spouse and children are acting funny but hold on. Your body may be filled with pain and your pillow is covered in your tear stains but hold on. When Job was tested by the devil, everything he had was taken from him yet he stayed in his struggle and everything that he lost was restored back greater than it was before. When the woman that had the issue of blood was sick for 12 years, she stayed in her struggle and her blessing came in the way of her healing. See, you are not giving up when you stay in your struggle but you are giving in. You aren’t throwing in the towel when you stay in your struggle but you’re waving the white flag. Yea, the blessing is in your struggle so stay in it to get it. Why, because your struggle is setting you up to be sentenced to a lifetime of salvation that allows you to stand when you should be stumbling, successful when you should be suffering, strengthened when you should be suicidal, spiritual when you want to be spiteful, striving for greater instead of stealing for later, succeeding instead of being stuck, saving instead of spending, shouting for your healing instead of keeping that sick feeling and to be somebody someday instead of still searching for your way! Yea, staying in your struggle has benefits; so stop rushing your storm and get whatever it is that God wants you to know in order to past the test and get your testimony. Because if you are not ready and you fail the test then you have to retake it again! No one wants to go through the same storm again, so hold on in your struggle and watch it all work out!