Dear Woman,

I don’t know how my heart is wired to worry too much about others, I don’t mind going all night interceding for my friends, families and anyone connected to me in prayers. One of the things that led me to relationship coaching because nothing gives me joy than been there for other people.

Everyone is affected by suffering or pain at one point in their life. It may not be physical, but everyone goes through tragedy. And when they do, they look up to the sky in a moment of anger and rage and ask the all too familiar question “Why is God allowing this to happen to me?” Or “If God is so good, why does He allow suffering?”

But this is what God showed me last night while praying. I was at a low point and my heart was crying out to God.

I felt like David in Psalms 69:1–3 when he said:

“Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.”

When I asked God why He was allowing this to happen to His people, He repeated a message to me repeatedly.

God said I put them in situations that allow them to bring Glory to Me and allows them the opportunity to be an example and witness to others around them.

Dear reader, while you are going through a dark season in your life, no matter what it is, God gives us the opportunity to use our circumstances to bring glory to Him. We bring glory to God by accepting who He is in our life and letting go of our stubborn will that says to God, “Fix this for me! I can’t live this way anymore. I’m tired.”

When you let go of what you want and your dreams and desires, God gives you an unexplainable, overwhelming peace.

Getting to that point of letting go is sometimes the hardest thing we could ever do.

We don’t want to give up the things that will make us happy (or what we think will make us happy). We don’t want to let go of the security we have in the thing(s) we are holding onto. But God wants our complete surrender. He wants all our heart. Not half. When we give up our will and our way, God blesses us.

You might be a cancer patient in the hospital, or a single mom struggling to survive, a girl whose heart has been broken and shattered too many times, a victim of terror, or someone who just lost her job. Whatever your season of life right now, God wants to hear from you. Silence is only more threatening to your walk with Him. You have been put in this time of life for a purpose. Wherever God has you in life is for a purpose.

Let go of fighting to control your life and circumstances. Let Jesus take care of you.

You will run yourself ragged trying to make things happen. Surrendering your life and trials to God is the most freeing and rewarding thing. You don’t have to oversee things! God can take care of you. God can change your life around in the blink of an eye if you only give him the power to do so.

This is not about you. It is about God fighting for your salvation and for your heart. He is a jealous God. Won’t you trust Him?

Are you ready to surrender your circumstances to Jesus and stop fighting to win your own battles?

Thanks for reading. Let’s talk! Leave your thoughts in the comments. God blesses!