Sometimes God takes us through things in order for His work to be manifested through us. Why? Because most of us are too stubborn to share our testimony so in order for folk to know how God works He has to manifest His work through our trials, sickness, diseases, addictions; etc. Now, in order for you to get this you need to know that manifest means to show or demonstrate plainly; reveal or to be evidence of, to prove. Yea, see God will allow your mean co-worker to go through cancer and then declare them healed so that you can see and know that He’s a healer. He’ll allow you to see your sister or brother be strung out on drugs or alcohol and then break the chains of their addiction in order for you to see His power as giver of new life. I said new life, not just life because you are already living but when God brings you through some things that should have taken you out; He gives you NEW life. After cancer, new life! After dialysis, new life! After abuse and misuse, new life! After being broken, new life! After being hurt, new life! (I’ll leave that alone) God will allow you to see the homecoming of 3 young women who had been kidnapped and held hostage for years in order for you to know that He is a protector. He’ll even allow you to see moments of almost not making it, almost being without food, almost being homeless, almost being without a job, almost without just so you’ll see and believe that He is a provider.
So, you see; we have to go through our storms and troubles in order for God’s work to be manifested or shown to those who may doubt. It’s just God working. You keep wondering why you can’t move from the job you’re in even after the many applications submitted but that’s just God working. You’re trying to figure out why none of the medicine is working on you when it has healed so many others but that’s just God working. You’re trying to figure out why you keep being denied or turned down for stuff but that’s just God working. You’re not being picked on when trouble comes; it’s just your time, you’ve been picked out to go through. You aren’t being singled out each time you get knocked down; it’s just your time, you’ve been singled out to get knocked down so you can get back up. So don’t be shame of your situations or storms, shout through them. Don’t tarry in your trouble or be threatened by temptations; turn them around for your triumphant transformation. Don’t maintain mess because it makes you miserable but make it part of your message in your ministry. Yea, you’ll go through things, see things, do things and even give up on some things but that’s just God working so go through and then testify and allow God’s manifestation to work through you! Allow God to manifest His infinite power through you because 1 Corinthians 12:7 says, “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good” or another translation says, “A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.” So you see, it’s not about you but it’s about the message that God is manifesting or revealing through using you. Be used because it’s just God working.
Lakisha, the Author 