DEAR LORD, MY CRIES ARE NOT HELPING

Post date: May 17, 2021 11:17:15 PM

Though there are things to cry about, cries will never solve the problem. Despite your fears about yourself now and in your future, God made you out to succeed. Despite the troops rising in confrontation against you, causing delays, hardships, and frustrations, you were saved to have victory and to overcome them. Despite the duration of sorrows, pains, unpaid services to others, confusions, joblessness, single living, discouraging words from people, and lonesomeness, God definitely saved you to stand up and show God’s glory in the land of the living. The only reason you should not remain the same is because of the power of the cross and the word of God for you in every situation. Christ died to open the door for your spiritual and physical success. If after salvation you still remain the same, go on your knees and pray until the change comes, the cross of Christ can never, and will never be in vain, it is still effective today as in the days of old.

There are many good things inside of you waiting to be recognized, explored, and translate into profiting actions, but you are crying, confused, empty, without a direction, and a path to follow in life. Go inside of yourself not in self-pity to unearth the good things in you and begin using them. One thing I have come to realize and learn to avoid in life is that, no amount of cries and self-pity will ever change your situation, rather, they help push you further down into depression, unwanted agonies, and discomforting confusions.

God did not create anyone empty and will never watch over you being washed away in fear and backwardness as a result of emptiness in thoughts and actions. He did not say you will remain in your failure despite their numbers. You are as valuable and relevant to Him today as you were when you were conceived in your mother’s womb. You were conceived with hope, born in hope, and that hope will not die, God will show up in your life for the hope to be fulfilled. Lazarus' sickness resulted dead, his two sisters cried their hearts out for him, close friends and neighbors joined, but none of their cries was able to change the situation, none gave them the comfort they needed and the peace they deserved. Jesus Christ was called in only to heal, but far beyond their cries and expectations in calling Him in, He completely turned the situation, He gave them an unexpected change and comfort that was far beyond their wildest cries and imagination. That same God is who you serve today, His presence will make a difference despite the pains when we actively follow His words.

It was not the cries of the sisters or that of the friends that changed the situation, it was the presence of Christ Jesus and the willingness of the sisters to drop their doubts and follow the words of Christ Jesus that brought the change they did not expect to see. “Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill. He was of Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. Our friend Lazarus is at rest and sleeping, but I am going there that I may awaken him out of his sleep. So when Jesus arrived, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. And a considerable number of the Jews had gone out to see Martha and Mary console them concerning their brother. Martha then said to Jesus, Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me, although he may die, yet he shall live; Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, But Lord, by this time he throws off an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days. Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God?  When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.” John 11:1-44

Christ Jesus who is in you is the same one who changed the situation of Mary and Martha and not their cries. It is not the cries that change situations, it is the word of God you believe, obey, and follow that changes the situation. This situation will change. For prayers Click here