The ONE Who Seals, Heals, and Fills....



Lately I have been thinking about where I am in my walk with God - He has shown me so much during these last several months while going thru this trial - to the point where I actually thanked Him for what I am going thru. I would never have clung to Him as Redeemer the way I do now, or how much He really loves me, if I wasn’t so desperately pressed into Him right now. He really has “showed up” full of mercy and grace - I am still holding out to see Him as my Deliverer and holding onto His promise in Psalm 71 that “He has already given the command to save me”.

The Lord has brought many others into my life during this time that I have been able to relate to - the things they share with me have helped strengthen me on this journey, and for others, I have seen God use me to provide them with hope in their circumstance. That is why I chose the particular title for this post today….I am just one cracked pot telling another cracked pot about the One who seals, heals, and fills. He is so good!

It seems I have been bombarded about my testimony to others. In several of the Psalms I have been praying, it talks about telling of His marvelous works - so therefore, He must DO marvelous works and He wants us to tell people about what He has done. In Sunday School, we are going thru Revelation and at the end of every letter to the churches in Chapters 3-4, He says “let those who have an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”. How can we hear if we don’t tell? We must share what God has put on our hearts, what He has told us, in order to edify and affirm the work He is doing.

I have been thinking a lot about prayer also - when you are in a desperate situation, prayer becomes very sweet. I can just look at the place where I kneel down in my living room and feel a longing to be there before Him right now. I have tears now thinking about it - He is amazing! So many places in Scripture He tells us to turn to Him, to cry out to Him, to seek Him, to call to Him - He then follows up with so many promises that He will turn to us, He will hear, He will be found, He will act. Ahhh, I do delight in His word!
For several months, I was praying faithfully for some of my friends and the situations I knew they were dealing with. I was doing this, for one, because I love them and knew they also needed to see God in their lives, two, because I knew I was too consumed with my own problem and I knew God didn’t want that. I found it very beneficial to pray earnestly for others, and I honestly tried to pray for them just as desperately as I was for myself because I knew their situation was just as stressing on them as mine was on me. I would also keep in touch with them with insight from my devotions and would send them little text messages throughout the day to let them know I was thinking about them and praying for them - I selfishly admit, I did this also, because even though I did want to be an encouragement to them, I wanted to stay at the forefront of their minds because I needed their prayers, too.

For whatever reason, I have slacked on this - I’m not sure why - my situation is just as desperate, but I do have a greater peace; things have also been very busy, but that is no excuse when you have a friend in need. I want to apologize and ask forgiveness of my friends and commit to pray for them more diligently as I know they are also still in their circumstance. The last few days have been a little rough again and I was thinking about what has changed - this came to mind - I was not encouraging my friends and taking my focus off of myself as I had been; I also was not seeking them to pray for me as I had done before. PRAYER WORKS and the words of Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 are true, “Two are better than one…for if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift Him up!”. I would love to know that time meant a lot to you also - that you needed and felt the encouragement and prayers going up on your behalf.

Yesterday, I met with Linda for prayer and I have a lot more to share on that in a later post regarding how God uses our personal struggles - as individuals - to mirror what is going on in His church as a whole. It was powerful! One of the verses, she shared with me was Job 42:10, “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends…”. Wow! I know I need your prayers and covet them - I will pray for you, too!