I’ve been thinking about seasons…how each person who treads the earth goes through different seasons. Some of them are lengthy – others are seasons of school or university. Then they move onto other things. This week and next are seasons of extreme busy-ness. I think it’s because it’s of such a short duration that I can sit amidst it and almost enjoy it. The stress can be a bit overwhelming but when I’m just ploughing onwards, it feels do-able because I’m slowly making progress to an end.
#50 of my 1000 thanks is that I am making progress, albeit slow.
Talking of seasons, I mentioned the other day how Floyd and Sally McClung were going through an unexpected season. This is what Sally wrote on October 12th on the Pray for Floyd Facebook page
“Dear Praying Friends and Ministry Partners,
It was so nice to see Floyd again. He was in his chair when I arrived. He was awake, alert, attentive the whole morning. For a while I competed with the soccer game on TV, but in the end I won and got his attention. 🙂
I shared lots of news with him since I hadn’t seen him in a while. I wish I knew if he understood it all.
He looks stronger than when I last saw him, but thinner. He still coughed a few times, and it sounded a bit congested. 🙁 Please keep praying for the infections to be completely healed!
Being with Floyd again after not seeing him for 2 weeks while I’ve had the bad infection, reminded me afresh of how I can do nothing but trust God. I can make right choices. I can do everything I know I should do, my duty so to speak. I can be as obedient as possible to His ways. But then I have to just step back and trust Him. The things that Floyd needs only He can break in and do.
He has to work the miracle, bring the breakthrough. I can’t make it happen. No amount of doing the right things can bring answers. It’s up to God. He is sovereign, and He’s in control.
I was looking through some of my journal notes on healing. I read about a couple with a healing ministry. I know of them from their famous times of miracles. But they prayed for over 10,000 people (some of whom died shortly after they prayed for them!) before they saw their first healing miracle. Wow! That’s perseverance.
A man known for his ministry of signs and wonders spoke every Sunday in his church on this for a year – while the size of his church steadily dwindled – before he saw breakthroughs. Again, perseverance!
We live in such an “instant” world that I think we can sometimes forget that God’s ways and timing are different. Seeing Floyd again today brought all these thoughts rushing through my mind! Reminding myself of my smallness and God’s greatness brought fresh peace into my spirit.
I can trust Him – and can trust that His timing is perfect. All I can do is persevere with my hand in His.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8
“For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end – it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.”
Habakkuk 2:3
Only God can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into a triumph, a victim into a victory, a hurt into a healing. My part is to keep looking to Him and trusting Him.
Love,
Sally”
Pray for them.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂