Answer – 2 way conversation

As we are called to have a personal relationship with our God, it sometimes can be mistaken that its a one way conversations, we give out requests to God and he answers us but that’s wrong, a relationship requires a 2 way conversation. Yesterday I really spent time consciously seeking him. And pouring my heart out to him, and then today I opened up my daily reflection book, and this is what it said;

Day 244 – Hold his hand

“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”

Isaiah 41:13

Holding hands communicates love and protection. Courage and strength are imparted from one person to another. Holding hands acknowledges that a strong bond exists between two people.

Imagine facing surgery, a new job, divorce, or a finance setback. Many circumstances may cause us to become fearful. We need to feel love and protection. We yearn for courage and strength to face another day. If only we had someone’s hand to hold!

God desires to help us. When we walk though life hand in hand with God, we can face anything. His love covers us. His presence is our guard. We can do all things through Christ because we are given His strength.

Do you feel as though you’re walking through life alone? Do not fear. Are you in need of love, protection, courage and strength? Reach out your hand. Allow Jesus to take hold of it. Receive His love and protection. Bask in his courage and strength. Take hold of his hand!

From Whispers of Wisdom for young woman by Barbour Publishing

WOW, I mean wow!! If you have read some of my earlier blogs you will see that God really been telling me to hold his hand, to trust him, to let him lead me and now to give me strength, support and courage through a really tough situation I am facing. How can God not exist when he is so clearly at work, he is longing for us to have a REAL relationship with him to praise him and worship him because he is worthy of praise but not being fake or having a surface relationship. But truly trusting every aspect of your life to him and seeing what he has in store, for pouring our hearts out to him, being like David in the Psalms, crying out to God and asking whether he is there, and also realising that no matter what we face in life, God hasn’t changed and still worthy to be praised. To be honest about our feelings; to be angry and tell God, to be in pain and cry to him, to be always thankful for the things he has blessed us with even when we fail trials.

John 16:33 “I have told you this that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

We are not meant to face this world alone, sometimes God places people in our life to be there for us, but Jesus should always be our no 1 support and comfort and the first hand we reach out to hold when things go wrong.

And later this week my friend gave me this verse;

1 peter 1:6-7

⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire —may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Reminds me of Desert song –

This is my prayer in the fire, in weakness or trial or pain,

there is a faith proved more worth than Gold

so refine me Lord through the flame