My mother taught me growing up to always pray, no matter what you were going through. I would here her whisper randomly in prayer sometimes, “thank you Father in the mist of it all” or she would say “through it all you kept me”. She had a big heart and a great spirit. I know she prayed faithfully but I didn’t get the whispered prayers she would say above.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. …
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe.
Nehemiah 8:10 Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
We didn’t have the best of everything, in fact I learned later on that my mom struggled to provide for her 3 children. She was a single mother because our father didn’t do much to help her take care of us. She would always say God will make a way and when he did, sometimes that’s when I would hear her whisper one of those prayers.
The older I got and was able to understand and see that my mom was suffering and struggling, I was judgmental. When I say that I mean as far as I questioned why she was always praying but she was still going through tings and doing without. I didn’t know her story, where God brought her from, what he carried her through, where he brought her to.
She would say in the mist of it all, he was there. What does that mean! You are still in the mist is what I was thinking. I feel the most wisdom God has provided me has been since I have started to seek him more and question him less. I believe she meant that in the mist of all she went through and was going through, God the father and the son Jesus Christ was always there with her. The Father and the The Son kept her and never left her.
The more I seek God and pray for discernment I understand why my mother prayed consistently. I now understand that 1st my mother was not suffering taking care of us because in the mist of her struggles, God was there. I didn’t know how he had saved her and protected her from dangers seen and unseen, how he had blessed her and kept her and never left her when she was not even being a faithful servant. I didn’t know her story!
Hearing my pastor say in his sermon to stop wanting what other people have because you don’t know their story reminded me of how I felt about my mom, I didn’t know her story. We look at people and we want what they have or we judge them because we feel they don’t deserve what they have but we do. However, “Do we know that person’s story!” Would we be able to go through what they went through to get where they are!
We all have a story, it makes us unique and it is part of who we are. God uses each one’s story for his glory to help another person go through their life story. This brings me comfort when I think about my own story. I stopped questioning why and started asking God for strength to overcome and that’s when he started to show me discernment and purpose. That’s also when I really started to realize that through the mist of it all God was right there. From the very beginning of my story in 2012 to the turning of my journey in 2018. He was right there with me and he never left me.
When my mother passed in 2013 I felt alone and didn’t know what to do. I struggled with her death for months before I could start to actually deal with it. I couldn’t even talk to God, let alone acknowledge Jesus. I was about to get married, was scared and didn’t know what to do, I was lost and missed my mom. All the times I found out my ex husband was cheating and I felt betrayed, damaged and in that sunken place like I couldn’t breathe. In The Mist Of It All, God was right there.
In The Mist Of It All, he was there. He was with me, he kept me and never left me. Although I felt alone, scared, lost and confused during those troubling times, the Father and The son were there with me In The Mist Of It All!
I love it!!!! TT I WILL ALWAYS BE HERE CHEERING YOU ON !!!! You have overcome so much!!! But you didnt allow the devil to keep the victory. You got back up and took what belonged to you back. Im proud of you for doing so. I love you so much.
Thank you my bugaboo, I really appreciate your support. I feel the best is yet to come, God is doing a new thing in me. I love you
A BRAND NEW KIND OF ME