Happens To Be On the Other Side (By Crush, By Design IV)

FYI: I don't normally take requests for content for my blog, precisely because it is my blog. However, Sunday I decided to make an exception to that rule because of the nature of a suggestion made by a friend of mine.

Peter, thank you, my good buddy! ;-) - TLP

And so, another series of postings comes to an end!

I hope you have all enjoyed this because this has been a challenge for me to write!

In closing today, I want to encourage you that your problems need never ever define you, no matter what other people say!

I've been told to "let go", to "give up" and "move on", when it comes to my crush, but if I had followed those instructions then I would not have experienced what I experienced on Tuesday...

Feasting On A Closed Issue

Yes, it might have been hard and at times torturous, but it was a sign, for me, of God breaking into parts of my life that I had closed off for so many years.

Let me put it to you like this...

After admitting that I want to seriously hug & kiss my crush, I'm now left to realise just what that actually means; that it was growing in size more than it should have been as my eyes drifted off God and onto my circumstances.

So what did I do?

First up, just like I raised in the first post; I prayed.

Second, I knew I had to train myself to keep myself focusing on what God is doing for me apart from my crush!

So then I started immersing myself in reading Scripture & putting on some of my favourite worship songs to make sure my focus didn't keep going off, like this song: -

We started doing this a few weeks ago at church and I must say, as soon as it got going, I really, really connected with it as it gave me a far healthier perspective to focus upon in spite of my crush.

I told my friend, Matt, that this was the whole reason for my being at !Audacious; to see God's will "here as in heaven" in spite of the feelings I've developed for her.

Going back, again, to what Ps. Paul Garner said on Tuesday, that if I could choose God in the times of chaos, then it would clearly mean that I would choose Him when all was going well.

The fact that I'm going to la-la land over this person and yet... and yet can still say I want Jesus more shows that there is much more to me than meets the eye, much more!

Conclusion

So, to recap then, here's what we've discovered so far this week: -

Pray Above Your Weight - Prayer teaches you how to punch above your weight when it comes to the situations that you face;
Until Your Breakthrough Comes - Sometimes you have to be persistent to the point of almost breaking down at the lack of apparent movement in order to see your miracle happen;
Something To Rely On - When you are under the cosh, you have to make sure that you have something to rely on that won't let you down; and
Happens To Be On the Other Side - You can make the choice, today, to be happy in the circumstances in which you find yourself in

Now that I've gone a long way through a subject I probably could have wrapped up in less posts than I have, I wanted to really really do this issue justice!

You could argue, then, that no matter what you do; you just have to "P.U.S.H." to get through/past it: -

Pray

Until

Something

Happens

Final Thought

I'm trying to get across to you the power of your prayers in your situation no matter how dire it looks.

If you're not a praying person, maybe it's about time you started in order to see things happen that maybe, just maybe, you were not expecting!

Watch the skies!