(from my email to Dan)
"...However, I believe that these circumstances and your experience of being stretched is needed for your growth. I pray everyday for you that you will learn to depend on God for his strengths and wisdom in situations like this and experience God's faithfulness and guidance as you become humble and dependent on Him. You are not doing this alone. God is in this with you and he has allowed it for a good purpose.
Unless you're stretched, you won't grow nor understand the need to depend on God.
I thank God for sending His helper (---) in time of need and I am here to pray for you everyday.
I am confident that God will make you victorious and grant you a valuable experience.
I know for sure that through this experience, you will gain confidence and courage to take more challenges that life will bring to you in the future. God will make you so joyful when the harvest time comes because the fruits that you will enjoy will be so sweet! I can guarantee!
Keep it up my beautiful son! I know you can do this. And God is with you!"
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God is so humorous! I sent this email to my son two days ago encouraging him to see his hardship as God-given opportunity to grow. However, yesterday I was put into a situation that caused so much stress in me. :)
At first, I complained about the situation to Dan, but as we pray together, i was strengthened and able to find peace and hope in this situation. We prayed together for God's strength and thanked the Lord for the opportunity through which we can be stretched and grow. PTL!
God wanted me to teach my son not with words but by examples. It wasn't an easy task.. haha
"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ANd I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my derees and be careful to keep my laws." (Ezek 36:26-27)
wow, i am so encouraged today. thank you for sharing this email with us. i love the relationship that you have with your son - the fact that you are able to encourage, exhort, and build one another up so candidly.
ReplyDeleteI read Oswald Chamber's devotion this morning and it was so in line with what I needed to hear (including this blog post).
What He desires for me is that I see “Him walking on the sea” with no shore, no success, nor goal in sight, but simply having the absolute certainty that everything is all right because I see him.
You are so right on - "unless we are stretched, we won't know how to depend on God" amen. i need to remind myself this every day.
i am praying for you. miss u very much.