IS YOUR PROBLEM CONSUMING AND OVERBEARING?

The message in taken from the scene in the Garden of Gethsamane. (Mathew 26:37-38,42,44,Luke 22:51)

The message in crisp that our Precious God wants to tell us is that, you may be walking through the most sorrowful, most drowning situation and you may be running to Gods presence every time, you are overwhelmed by it to the point of death, yet you don’t feel or hear God moving you out of that Situation.

Jesus finds himself in a similar situation in the Garden of Gethsemane, he is sorrowful to the point of death (is what the scripture says;) yet he doesn’t hear from God concerning his sorrow. In the narration of the same situation in the gospel of Luke 22:43, we see that the angel of the Lord appears and strengthens him; Jesus had to walk the walk himself. Imagine how painful it would have been when he knew that His Father in heaven could change the course in a fraction of second and chose not to do it. Imagine how He couldn’t feel the JUST God anywhere beside Him.

But following this scene we immediately see that, when Peter one of his disciples struck the ear of the solider Malachus, Jesus laid his laid on him and Malachus was healed. There was a MIRACLE!! Done by a man who was going through an overbearing problem, who felt God wasn’t beside him. And all of us know miracles are from God and that meant God was undoubtedly beside Jesus.

Many times we may find ourselves in situations like that. It could be overwhelming to the point of death, but God wants you to look beyond that and around yourself and see, you will find Him.. You will find him in what i can the peripherals... His Peripheral Presence... proves that he is actually walking beside you in the toughest situation watching over you and performing wonders around you in the environment that you have been placed in, the work that you do, the people whom you help, the words that you speak... LOOK AROUND, you will FIND HIM right beside you.

Now, this sure does not happen to everyone.. There are a couple of things that Jesus did to experience this... Here are what they are..

- Whenever trouble hits you, Cultivate the habit of going to the feet of the Lord, only then can God strengthen you to go through the ordeal and encourage everyone whom God has asked you to shepherd. (Inspite of his pain, Jesus came back three times and asked his disciples to pray, he was not thinking of himself alone. This is a quality of God and Gods children should possess this quality too.. For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son (himself) Mathew 26:39

- Learn to surrender and re-surrender your will to God. Jesus prayed this prayer of surrending his will to God not once but three times... The secret is bcos, when you do that, God seals all routes that the enemy may plant on your way to steal Gods will from your life. And even if you find yourself locked you are safe , cos you are locked with God and in God is everything. Mathew 26:39b,42b,44 In the book of Genesis we find that only after Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil did their knowledge of Gods will in their life become corrupt. They got disconnected to God and hence the evil one has all the opportunities to provide false wills over our lives and deceive us. When we accept the Lord this connection is restored and when we prayer the communication happens, so at moments where we have more than one thought abt a situation, prayer brings abt a clarity when we surrender our will to God, cos God steps in and when he does anythin of the evil one flees.

- Look beyond your problem and try and become the solution to someone else’s problem , Jesus was the only solution to Malachus.

When you do these three things,

- restored your communication with God,

- surrendered your will and

- laid yourself as a willing sacrifice by doing good even when the worst is happening to you,

Be assured that God is in you, with you and around you.

May the Holy Spirit enable you to walk this walk in your lives. God Bless you.Amen