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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode: DARKNESS TO LIGHT

I was thinking about how I got where I am today. I can trace my faith walk, my being an author and encourager to one time in my life. I have told you before that I walked through a rough time with depression in my late twenties. I was bound by fear, anxiety and depression.

I hated my life and at one point,D was listening to satan’s lies about everything. He even convinced me that everyone in my life would be better off without me. I seriously contemplated suicide. I am thankful for my praying family.

Lessons to take away from my dark time in the pit of despair.

If you have lost family that are bound by anything that is dragging them down, any form of sin or depression, don’t give up. Have faith and keep praying.

If I had not walked through that experience I would have never written my first book, let alone nine and several bible studies. I would not have this channel that encourages others to focus on God. I would not have been able to step in and prevent a woman from suicide. I would not have been able to encourage others to keep climbing out of their pit of despair.

If I had it to live through again, I would because that time has become my motivation. When something seems tough or hard to see my way through, now I pray. I tell myself I got through that depression; I can get through anything.

Our lives are like a tapestry. Every thread is intricately woven in a pattern. If we unravel even one thread, the picture changes. This is why God does not allow us to go back in time and “correct” our mistakes.  Because he has our lives planned out. He can use our mistakes to turn us into people he can use for his glory.

Sometimes, it takes a storm to know you need Jesus. The darkness tells us it is time to find our peace in the only one that can give us peace.  It is in those dark times that we learn to pray.

When we are walking through a dark time, we have to stay focused on the light. It doesn’t matter how small it seems. God is light and he is big enough to see us through any storm.

I have watched my grandparents walk through hard things in life, my parents and my in laws, I know that God has sustained them through the fiery trials.

I Pet. 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

This verse means we are called out of darkness of sin, into his marvellous light of salvation. When I was in the pit of depression I was walking in sin. I am not saying that all bouts of depression stems from sin. But unless it is an actual chemical imbalance in the brain, caused by Serotonin levels being off, then it is probably an attack of our enemy satan.

If the joy of the Lord is our strength, it stands to reason that the enemy would want to rob us of joy. In doing so he can weaken us. One of his tools is to get us to keep repeating over and over again how blue and depressed we are, then we change our focus. We take our focus off of God and become obsessed with our depression.

I will remind you again and again, because I am always reminding myself. The things we focus on become bigger to us. The more I focused on how depressed I was the worse I felt. The deeper I dug the pit.

This is why I always close with Keep your God Focus.  As long as we focus on him, we will not lose our joy, strength or our peace. I pray that you are enjoying my channel. I say mine but it actually belongs to the Lord. I have told him to do with it as he wants.  I keep getting people that want to help me grow my channel. But I feel like God will grow it in his time. If it never gets any more views, then that is fine too. Because I do this for him, and it will reach who he needs to see it.

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Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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