Guest Author: Donna Smith

  Recently I kept coming across life stories of famous people whose childhoods were very challenging, who as children, the things that they became famous for as adults were attacked and seemed to be the weakest part of them. The Lord showed me a long time ago that you can look at a child and see their gifts by where they are being attacked and stymied and suppressed. But He recently has shown me that it doesn't just stop when you're a child. Your calling, your destiny, and the gifts that will help you to fulfill those things are where you are attacked even as an adult. Where you believe you are weak is where you are strong, because God's power is made perfect in weakness and His grace is sufficient for you in the midst of it. The places where people and the world in general push back the hardest at you and can't seem to stand about you, oftentimes is exactly where God wants to use you and that's why He put it there. They will give you perfectly logical reasons why that is something that is a flaw or bad about you. Your enemy will whisper to you anything and everything to cause you to back down and shrink back, up to, and including the Word of God used in bad context.
  When it happens you must take the example of Jesus in answering back. You cannot argue with the devil. He is the master of it. He wasn't able to deceive a third of the angels of heaven because he is poor at debate. Your knowledge and intellect are no match. Even Jesus saw that and His answer always was.. it is also written. You go to the one who is above all including your adversary, the words of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When you go to the Supreme Court of Heaven every other ruling is overturned. No matter what anybody says about you even your own family, your own parents, it is all irrelevant. It is inadmissible because the one who created you who put everything inside you that is there knows, and if it needs to change He is the only one with the power to do it. EVERY knee has to bow to His Name... INCLUDING YOURS.
   What is His word saying about you? What is the Spirit of God confirming to you as truth? What has the Blood of Jesus covered? Those are the only admissible facts in your case. And yes it can be scary out there.. but what is even more scary is having every wrong you have ever done from childhood even the things you have forgotten displayed for all creation to see at the throne of God. Seen because they were not covered by the Blood of Jesus.. or just a blank video of nothing.. because your wrongs were covered by the blood, BUT you shrank back because you were afraid.
  God plainly says He is not pleased with those who shrink back.. Fear is no excuse! Nearly every "great hero" of the Bible was scared to death, but they did it anyway. Because looking from a bunch of mocking human faces into the face of an Almighty eternal God who is displeased with you because you are acting like a bunch of created beings are more powerful than Him.. because you are CHOOSING to bow your knee to them and your own fear INSTEAD OF HIM. They looked between the two and said.. Yes, you may be able to kill me once, but He can raise me from the dead, and make me live forever, or cause me to cease to exist completely and make it hurt the whole time.
​    Makes you thankful for the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ doesn't it This Halloween? I have to ask you.. Which is scarier to you? And who are you going to CHOOSE TO BELIEVE? It is scary out there Choose wisely.