GOD, WHO RAISES THE DEAD

Broken- That is what God wants He wants us to be broken so He can get the Glory and I tell you what all my life I have heard people say that Jesus didn't like dead things and He doesn't. I remember about 6 months ago, I was in such dispair, because if someone had told me the trials I was facing in my life I would be facing then, I would have boldly told them they were a lie. That day it was a Sunday and I went to get in the shower where I love to pray I hear God so much better around water. Well in my praying I just broke, I remember sliding to the floor and crying uncontrollablly and saying God you have to come, you really have to come see about me.  My daddy had told me for years that there is someone/something  you are allowing to be your God and you have got to take that power back I thought my daddy was crazy and told him no.  That day I saw it for what it was. God broke me and guess what He isn't through, in all that I am going through He is breaking me and keeping me.

 

I don't mind it though, because I know when He is done I am going to come forth as pure Gold. I know that He is moving people and things and He alone will be able to get the glory when I tell my story. The Holidays are hard for so many reasons but know that this too shall past.  I am content that even in this mess I am in God is seeing fit to use me. He is allowing my mess to be my ministry and it's actually what the body of Christ needs. People who don't know Him are who are just going through the motions needs to know that He is not just a Sunday God. That He is a 24/7 God and He cares about you even in your mess the fact that you are still here means that He loves you enough to work it out on your behalf. Don't you try and fix it you can't it's too big for you and He is going allow you to go through until it breaks you and you cry out to Him. I am so glad that God is raising my dead situation. I am so glad that God is allowing me not to be too proud to be transparent and not take on the attitude we were taught you don't tell people your business. That's foolish, because sometimes keeping your pain to yourself, your tough time to yourself keeps you from getting blessed. 

 

I have been blessed by complete strangers because during these times when God moved people and things out of my life and it hurt, it hurt like hell. I felt like I was in hell on earth. But God put people in place that had favor for me and they didn't know why. I heard something so profound last night that they have people that hate that love me, because they see what God has for my life. I love them in spite of. I know that I know that Jesus loves me. I know that the favor of God rest on my life. I know that He is restoring and breathing life into my dead situation. Performing CPR if you will, into my family members, friends, co-workers who all have dead situations God is raising them up. He said He would raise up a standard and He is not a man that He should lie.

 

Get ready because there is about to be a mighty move of God and He is about to separate the wheat and the tare. I know that some of you are going to be amazed at who is left standing already I am amazed at what He is revealing to me.

 

Don't let pride keep you from your breaking point, go ahead break cry it out that is the only way He can fix it. Remember you can't fix what is not broke. So God break me over and over again until you get me just the way you want me and even when I am there if you need to break me again. Just don't leave me in a dead situation.

 

God just dropped in my spirit that someone who is reading this is at that point and your pride is keeping you from a major blessing or breakthrough. You know who you are. You will never even let it be known that you read these words, but I pray that God keeps you uncomfortable until you submit to His way. There is no room for your pride in this situation. For God's sake break so that He doesn't have to step away and let the enemy have you. Break so He can raise you. Die to the flesh and self SO that He can raise you in the spirit and in the full love and knowledge of God.

 

I am,

Blessed to be a Blessing,

 

Shon Garner Cole

 

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God won't bless us if He can't change us. We can't stay the same. Some of us may be wondering why we haven't had a spiritual breakthrough. One reason could be that we've not yet been broken. God makes it very clear that He only relates to those who are humble and contrite in heart. Isaiah 57:15 says, "Thus says the high and exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy., ‘I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'" The Most High God hangs out with the lowly and the humble. He cares for those who acknowledge their need for Him. God has to grind away at our pride until we realize we are not self-sufficient.

If you are facing tough circumstances right now, you are a prime candidate for a breakthrough because God is at work through your trials. Paul said, ‘We do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life." (2 Corinthians 1:80. Paul was burdened beyond his strength to bear it - it was such a deep, piercing, and exhausting struggle. But we know that even if we are in a bad place, it is a wonderful place for God to do an amazing work in our lives.

"Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope." (verses 9-10). When you are beyond all earthly help, you are better able to trust in God - the God who raises the dead and saves us from death. God lets us get so low that we understand that He is our only real option.