Micah Tyler sings one of the most profound songs I’ve heard. There’s Never Been A Moment. Wow. My whole life there has not been a single second that God has not loved me. Not one single sin that closed Him off and turned me out in the cold to live on my own. Praise God, how can I not fall to my knees and cry, Lord, thank you. Thank you.
Exodus 14:14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Too many times I’ve been shredded by this world. Feeling as though I didn’t matter, I was useless and that no one loved me. As I grew in Christ He revealed to me the only way to fight those kind of battles. That way is stated in Exodus 14:14. Allow God to go to war for you. It says, The Lord shall fight for you. Let Him. Let the God of your life, the lover of your soul, the creator of your unique self go to war for you. This verse makes it clear that when no one else believes we’re worth fighting for, God KNOWS it. When you don’t believe you are worth fighting for, God KNOWS you are. So let God go to war and accept that, ye shall hold your peace.
What joy, what grace, what mercy and love are provided in the knowledge that God KNOWS YOU are WORTH fighting for. Not because you are perfect, not because He has to, not because you’ve done anything to deserve it. No. God fights for you because He loves you, has set the price of your worth (He gave His only son for YOU) and He wants to fight for you. God wants you to know your worth, know what He has set your value at. God has never hidden from us what exactly we are WORTH to HIM. In every part of the Bible it is proclaimed that we are PRICELESS to HIM. Your value cannot be negotiated or lowered in God’s eyes. God never sees us as anything, but PRICELESS. God gave His only son, that we might be saved. HIS ONLY SON. Breathe that truth in to the very depths of your soul. Stop and believe it for the first or one hundredth time in your life. If you truly believe it, then every time you breathe it in, a renewed freedom and freshness settles upon you. It will never get old to those that truly seek and cherish God’s love and acceptance of us through His son Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
God declares things that are right!!!! What God says is TRUE. Let’s look at what God says about YOU and I.
Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
That’s what God says about you and I. He has us graven upon the palms of His hands!!! Our walls (obstacles, sins, trials) are continually (always) before Him. If God sees what we are going through, if He loves us enough to have us graven on His very palms then what do we care about what the world says of us? If that’s not enough truth for you, I have more.
Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
God gives us an open invitation to RUN to HIM. Call upon me in the day of trouble. WOW!!! God is so willing to fight for us, to protect and shield us. God makes it plain as day, I will deliver thee! There is no surprise ending for us! God says straight up, I will deliver thee. He doesn’t say He’ll think about it or weigh our faith before coming to our rescue. God PROCLAIMS, I will deliver thee. Have you started to see the pattern. Have you started to see that there will NEVER be a moment when God is NOT who HE SAYS HE IS? I hope so, but I still have more scriptures for any heart that is desperate to be healed.
Psalm 118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
One more declaration of God’s protection. The Lord is on my side…DECLARE IT. PRAY IT OVER YOUR LIFE. Breathe it in every morning and every night. The Lord is on our side. No matter what it LOOKS like, the truth we don’t get to see with our eyes is the spiritual battle taking place. The fight that God has gone full force over us in. The battle where the devil and his demons tear us to pieces spiritually with some of the following lies,
-I am worthless
-I am too fat
-I am stupid
-I am worthless
-I would be better off dead
-I am too skinny
-I deserve to be hit
-I deserve to have horrible things happen to me
-No one, not even God can love me after what I’ve done
-I am disgusting
-I am too far gone to get back
-I am not worth loving
-I can never change
-This (situation) will never change
-It is pointless
I’ve been dealt mighty blows with most of these lies. However, the truth in God’s Holy Word set me free from most of them. I still struggle and that is okay, because daily God is fighting and teaching and changing me to overcome whatever struggles I still face. Understand that God NEVER gives up on us. Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. The battle is spiritual. It is the battle we don’t get to see, but we feel it as if we’re being physically pummeled every day we accept Satan’s lies over God’s TRUTH.
Psalm 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, this is our gift. This is our TRUTH. We are the children of God. Our clothing is of wrought gold. We are covered in the blood of Jesus. We are LOVED. God has not just stood up to fight for us (Ex 14:14) He has provided us with the tools we need to fight beside HIM. Ephesians 6:10-20. The ARMOR OF GOD. It is ours to wear daily, to go to battle and fight the enemy. Fight the lies we have so willingly accepted throughout our years in this world.
Psalm 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
THAT IS YOU! We are the children of God and this is our future. It is a promise, a guarantee from God. We shall enter into the king’s palace. BAM! God has spoken it, it shall come to pass. Don’t for one second believe anything less.
Psalm 34:4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
The title mentions My Love Story. The personal testimony of God’s love in my life. February 7th, 2016 Psalm 34:4 came to pass in my life. I was in a relationship, I was sure God meant to be, but at the same time, I knew it was time to exit. I was moving forward at that time with the understanding if it was truly meant to be God would make it so. I would eventually end this relationship a few weeks later after my ex spoke these words. “I don’t see a future with you.” Talk about your breath being taken away. On Feb 7th 2016 God delivered me from the following fears involving this relationship. Fear 1, I would end up alone. Fear 2, I would never have children because I would be alone. Fear 3, I was not worthy of an earthly man’s love. Fear 4, No man on earth would ever love me. Fear 5, I was a failure. Fear 6, I would never learn how to love another person. Fear 7, I would never be able to love a man, God’s way.
Some of these now seem laughable to me, but reading them over, I get teary eyed, because I am taken back to that very moment of cold, decisive fear. The only truth I could see or understand at that very time were my fears. I understand now they were ALL lies, but at that time, I was convinced otherwise. God had brought me into a deep time of intimacy with Him during the years of 2014 to 2016 specifically. I had begun to fall so in love with Him that truly, my breath was not taken away the moment my ex said, I don’t see a future with you. All I felt was a pinprick in my chest. That’s the best way I can describe it. God turned me to His word as all those fears swirled around in my mind. Psalm 34:4 was God going into full battle for me, slicing His sword of Truth through every one of those fear filled lies! Fear 1 was destroyed by Joshua 1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Fear 2 was destroyed by Psalm 113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord. God would allow me to minister to younger women at different times in my life and I knew as I grew older He would be faithful to me in giving me more daughters as a single woman than if I were married. I accepted that it was all in HIS HANDS. Fear 3 & 4 Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. I knew God had paid a higher price than rubies for my life. His one and only son Jesus Christ is the price upon me. In my mind, if God had not created a man worthy of that price then that was HIS will and I was going to be more than okay as a single woman. In my mind, if God had created me so that no earthly man could love me then AWESOME. I could and would give every part of myself to serving Him and focusing on HIM alone. God tells me exactly what I’m worth and He proved I am worth loving. Fear 5, 6 & 7 were obliterated by Jeremiah 29:11-14 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
February 2016 was definitely a time of seeking God and finding Him. So many nights I cried myself to sleep, not out of fear or lies, but because I was grieving my sins from that relationship as well as the loss of more than a boyfriend. I had been best friends with my ex 2&1/2 years before we began dating. I had taken a lot of risks, a lot of personal sacrifice and put it into this failed dream. In all honesty, I had started our friendship out as a big sister and somewhere along the line Lust had slipped in and changed a pure friendship into a relationship of Horrors and Idolatry on my part. I stole so much from my ex that I still cringe at the woman I am able to be when I turn from God and His will. During the nights of grieving and crying I learned to pray a new prayer. I found myself at different times praying I NEED YOU, Lord. One night in the midst of my tears, I paused as for the thousandth time I was about to say I need you, Lord. During that pause the Holy Spirit changed NEED to WANT. I WANT YOU, Lord. I want YOU, Lord. It was incredible how the changing of one word, turned the events of my life into something so beautiful I couldn’t stop praising God for the destruction of a relationship that was so WRONG. My Love Story is so much more than I’ve shared here, but this is one of the most beautiful times of my life. I fell so in love with God I just sit in awe of Him, that He counted me worthy and never stopped loving me. The biggest RED FLAG I had upon entering this relationship was when I told my ex, “I don’t plan on having sex before marriage,” and his response was, “Well, I can’t do that.” Normally I’d be ashamed to admit this truth, but God has freed me from this life I led. From the way I devalued myself. I am Forgiven and covered in HIS love. No point in being ashamed when I’ve been FORGIVEN fully. My Love Story isn’t pretty, but that’s okay, because the only part that matters is all my mistakes have brought me closer to God.
This post is part of several linkups
- The Path To Serving God - December 5, 2018
- Fitting In - November 11, 2018
- Grief. My Unique Experience. - September 21, 2018
Thanks for sharing your story and for connecting it to the magnificent truth that God sees and knows us each as individuals. Knowing us fully — we are fully loved!