Keep Moving Forward

One of the hardest things in ministry is continuing to follow God's path especially when things hit you hard and personal. The devil will attack you where it hurts. He will break up relationships, families, marriages. Satan will physically, spiritually, and emotionally hurt you and your loved ones. He takes no hostages, and he continues his attack. Satan will do everything he can to bring you down and keep you down. The question is, what are you going to do? In my own personal life, Satan has attacked and destroyed something that I held dear to my heart. While I will not get into the details, I will say that he tried to entice me to get revenge. He tried to force me to handle everything myself. While I got depressed, and was angry at the situation, I prayed to God and asked Him to handle the situation. I waited on God to tell me to move, and I waited for His answers to my questions. It was one of the hardest things I had to deal with in my life. Through it all God saw me through it, comforted me, and gave me so much love, attention, and affection. I am in a period of my life where I am moving forward to a new level in my relationship with Christ. I am being led down an awesome path that in my being obedient to Him God has blessed me more than words can describe. We must always remember that God is there at all times. During the good and the bad. We must rejoice in His presence at all times, for He is always with us, loving, guiding, ministering, providing, and protecting us. I often wonder why so many people have lost faith in God, then He reminds me that people didn't have faith in Him but in mankind. They had faith in the man or woman of God who was their Shepard. Many times people get hurt in the church and because of their lack of faith in God they look elsewhere. The devil will hit all of us hard. He will try to take us all down, and continue to try to destroy us. I don't know about you but, my faith is in God and God alone. I am not a perfect man, I make my errors, but I continue to go to God. He is the center of my focus, and while I might disappoint Him from time to time in my sin. I live for Him, He is my everything. Remember that our faith is in Him not man. Stay strong and stay vigilant. God loves you and so do I.