All the hospital bags are packed, bassinet cleaned, lined with the cutest baby sheets, and his room is ready with the perfect portraits of Pooh Bear and friends on the walls. We are ready whenever our baby boy wants to arrive!
I am 39 weeks pregnant and recently went back to read the first page in my pregnancy journal. I was so incredibly excited and I knew that my the gracious hand of God, Joshua and I would be provided for during this time of transition. That is exactly what happened. We haven’t purchased anything for the baby outside of a few items that we wanted him to have specifically from us. I don’t think I have seen the Lord’s hand in this way and it has been overwhelming and has elevated my faith.
It’s December and that means Christmas gifts up the wazoo. Although we have decided to cut back and just focus on specific gifts for our immediate family, it still has put a little bit of a dent in finances. I am sure you can relate. My husband and I were going over our finances and talking through the next couple of weeks and we both were feeling the same thing at the same exact moment.
“I would love to make more money,” my husband said.
I replied, “Me too.”
This morning I woke up 30 minutes before Joshua to pray before we had our time with the Lord together. As I opened my word, I prayed about financial increase and stumbled across Psalm 42. What a powerful Psalm. There was a point in the passage where angst, depression, and struggles were laid out but the resolve was something that wrapped my soul like a blanket.
"I am depressed, therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar."
Psalm 42:6
The writer says I am depressed BUT I remember all that you have done! He recalls the parting of the red sea in Jordan, how the Lord revealed himself strong to Moses and Elijah on the peaks of Hermon, and how David encountered the Lord on Mount Mizar.
I want to live by this statement. “I am (fill in the blank), therefore I remember you.”
When I am weak, I want to remember how the Lord made Himself strong in my life. When I am weary, I want to remember how the Lord undergirded my legs to help me stand another day. When I am heartbroken, I want to remember how the Lord always picked up the pieces and gave me fresh revelation.
It is okay to feel what you feel but it is the remembrance that brings you to a place of faith!
This morning instead of begging the Lord for increase, He prompted me to remember how He has continuously brought me out of darkness and into His marvelous light!
Sometimes we are have to take a break from asking and recall the miracles to our remembrance. The testimony is that He WILL do it again!
How would you fill in the blank?
Are you grieving, broken, lost, needing wisdom, depressed, or struggling? What can you recall about the Lord that would elevate your faith in this moment of suffering?
Right now if I could fill in the blank, I would say…
I am overwhelmed but I remember your faithfulness down through the years.
Friend can I testify?
Anytime when funds were depleted or my soul felt hollow needing to be filled, I would muster up the strength to pray and seek the Lord and he would come through every single time!
I choose to remember the times the Lord came through. I have never gone under the waves! He has and He will keep me and my husband afloat with all the things we need in this life. There is nothing left to do but be encouraged!
Finances are not too hard for the Lord.
A new job is not too hard for the Lord.
A spouse is not too hard for the Lord.
Joy is not too hard for the Lord.
Peace is not too hard for the Lord.
Whatever you are needing. Recall the places where the Lord has shown Himself to you and cling to that in the waiting. Just like my husband and I, He will see you through!
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