God's Power: The power of Surrender

Mole Mine

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❤️‍🔥Hello Blessings!

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"There is a time to proclaim, then a time to surrender and pray."

How have you been?

How has life been for you?

Are you struggling in life?

Are you fighting a battle that seems endless?

Are you carrying something and you feel giving up?

Or probably you are doing well in life but something is pulling you to the emptiness?

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The Disciples, prophets in the past, and many of us in today are called to do His will.

And then, we call on God, when we can't. The surrender.

And God's acts, His undeniable power follows.

1️⃣Noah, did his part to tell the people. Many did not listen. Noah did not take arms and violence to convince them. Neither that God equipped Noah an army to punish the sinners.

But God has his own way. And many perished when God flooded the earth. Many understood what Noah was saying, unfortunately when they were already drowning.

2️⃣Daniel, even when threatened by death stayed faithful, and prayed to God even in what was supposed to be the final moments of his life. He did not take arms, he did not resent the King, he did not call the other righteous to take arms. But he prayed.

And God, protected him.

And the King was enlightened.

3️⃣Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were offered fortunes and ultimately sentenced to death for not worshipping the pagan God.

They did not take arms, they did not resort to violence.

But they stayed faithful.

And God saved them. Joined them in fire.

And the king was enlightened.

4️⃣And probably the best story of God's intervention, the story of Moses.

The long story of slavery of the Israelites under Pharoah was ended not by a mighty army or revolution of the slaves through Moses.

It was ended through God's warnings and ultimately God's cutting of the sea that drowned the chasing Pharoah's army.

Moses, as the messenger of God, delivered God's message to Pharoah.

But Pharoah did not listen.

Moses did not take arms, did not make his own approach.

But he kept following God's message. He stayed grounded with God and not by his own understanding and will.

And God did His ways, He sent 10 plagues to make Pharoah and his people realize.

Water turned to blood, frogs came, gnats, flies, livestock disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the first-born sons.

But Pharoah was too hard and resistant, and brushed away the overwhelming signs.

They did not listen that resulted to death.

Pharoah was a story of multiple chances given but wasted.

⚠️It taught me that even when we are blessed to be called, we do not carry the blessing of God's ultimate judgement.

That we are always bound with God in everything we do through the covenant.

That in every battle, there is always a partnership of man and God. That we are messengers and when the dead ends come, it is not our time anymore, it is our partner's time, it is God's time.

That in every dead end, there is a time to rest and pray. The time to surrender and let God do His part. A time to see the unpredictable wise works of the Lord slowly unfold.

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What about you?

How have you been?

How has life been for you?

Are you struggling in life?

Are you fighting a battle that seems endless?

Are you carrying something and you feel giving up?

Or probably you are doing well in life but something is pulling you to the emptiness?

When was the time that you recognize the limits of our being?

When was the time that we remind ourselves that there is someone powerful who oversee our lives?

The answer may not be instant,

but surrender is necessary