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Greater is He

 

Well it is Day 14 and I have finally tested negative for COVID. It was really quite a journey as although I didn’t feel so unwell a week ago, I did have a couple of days when I felt really sick.

Then the quote for the renovations came in and it far exceeded the budget we had set aside, so there was going to be a need to completely change the work to be done and then to ask for a rework of the quote. Some of the frustrations of obtaining quotes for this work was the company that didn’t reply at all to online queries, the company that quoted for only about half of the work discussed and then the preferred company taking four weeks to get back to us and finding the quote too much for us to manage.

So there I was, on a day when I was feeling really sick with the need to totally rework all the renovations so it would be more affordable. I was missing my friends that I would normally meet with regularly and the weather was miserable. We had only a fan heater for heating and wind whistling down the empty fireplace. I felt overwhelmed and spiralled completely down. A trusted friend who prays for me (her housemate also), texted me to say they both felt God telling them I was in a spiritual battle. I replied to say that I had spent much of the day crying about everything. She immediately telephoned and they both prayed for me in spiritual warfare. The following day she texted that God had woken her twice in the night to pray for me and she advised me to start using scripture to claim victory. I did so and felt much improved the following day, also asking a wonderful mature Christian friend to also battle on my behalf. The spiritual and emotional healing came fast, the physical slowly but definitely.

God came through! He has continued to sustain me in the days following. I have been asking what I can learn through this and keep coming back to faith and trust. Was I lacking in these? Possibly. Was I doubting? Possibly. So I have been concentrating prayer on building faith and trust. My God is faithful, I have no doubt. He is trustworthy—I have no doubt. He is a safe place, my rock and my refuge. He is a tower I can run into. He shelters me under His wings. He is all I need. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4). Amen!

I have much to be thankful for. A dry comfortable home, some savings and a pension. My husband and I have reasonably good health, our children are fine. We do not live in a war zone and haven’t suffered from the worst of climate change. I fully understand how blessed I am. However, there will always be days when there is so much going on that we feel totally overwhelmed and God meets us there.

May you all know the sustaining power of our mighty God in difficult days. God bless you all.

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