Everyone has dealt with some kind of health problem or have seen someone they're close to deal with a health issue. Health obstacles are usually unexpected, unpredictable, and unpleasant. No one asks for them, and if they do, they'll wish they never had.
I have been dealing with a health issue for almost 4 years and it came out of the blue!
I was working a steady full-time job at a daycare, I had a group of friends I hung out with almost every weekend and I was heavily involved in my church. One day on August 28th, 2019, 9 days after celebrating 7 years of being saved, out of no where, I felt terribly sick. I began to throw up horribly at work. I didn't understand why. I was feeling great, and boom, sick. They called my mom to pick me up and we went straight to our family doctor.
He was afraid it was my appendix about to burst and sent me to get an emergency MRI. I did the MRI and had to wait for the results.
I remember as if it was just yesterday, I was standing in my mom's room when my phone rang. It was my doctor. He began talking to me about the results. He mentioned a word I never wanted to hear. A word I never wanted my doctor to discuss about with me. The sound of his voice muffled and everything around me went dim.
No. No way is this happening to me! I've been doing all what you wanted me to do God. Everything was going just fine until this! Why me? Why did you let this happen to me? Have I done something wrong?
God was silent. (At least that's what I thought.)
I'm not going to lie to you, it was so hard. (It's still hard.) My faith kept getting shaken, my flesh continued to encourage me to give up, and I pondered that feeling a lot.
I've gone down to the altar, believing I'd be healed, but nothing. I've tried trusting doctors to help me, but that failed. I attempted any health routines and meds, but nothing worked.
I ended up having to leave my job, walk away from friends, and I pulled away from being in most ministries.
Everything felt like it was crashing and breaking apart. It felt like everyone left me or I had to leave them.
My lonesome why hung around, hoping for an answer.
It took until my grandmother, who passed, and people who cared to see me succeed in my callings that God has given me, for me to get up and keep going. No matter the health problem, it was time for me to get up and get moving.
Still, my health isn't the greatest. I face a lot of hard days, but I choose to get up and keep trusting God. The devil's lies are constant: you can't get through this. You're not worthy of a relationship because of this. You're not enough. You're going to rot where you are. God can't use you because you are damaged goods.
Resist the devil and he will flee (James 4:7)! And that's what I did. That is what I keep doing! I resist and get back up. Resist, get back up. Resist, get back up.
I know this isn't who I was made to be. This health issue is only but a test to be turned into a testimony.
My health is in the hands of my healer.
I encourage you, friend. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Even when you can't understand, don't see or feel change-even if everyone has left you.
GET UP!
Don't stay here, comfortable in a health issue, old relationship, a drug addiction, or a failed marriage. God is telling you to get back up! Get going on what you were called to do! This is the time to fight and remind Satan he's been defeated.
Keep on, Keepin' on my friend.
Gods got you. Gods got this.
Only believe.
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Scripture for the Weekend:
"So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." -James 4:7
Song for the Weekend:
(I've been obsessing over this song! It's like God is speaking these words to me in the middle of this health issue.)
Don't You Give Up On Me - Brandon Lake
Talk to ya later peeps! 😁
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