As I was up cleaning my computer and cleaning my various flash drives in preparation for what is to come. I came across this that I wrote in 2014 and it so blessed my heart that I needed to share it because I knew that it would be right on time for today.

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So today, I leave out to go to a doctor’s appointment with my husband, and I’m big on multi-tasking, so I have my school book with me so that I can do my homework while I wait in the waiting area, but I can’t seem to focus on my studies because my spirit is singing over and over:

“You’ve got to hold to HIS hands, to God’s unchanging hands

You’ve got to hold to HIS hands, to God’s unchanging hands

You’ve got to build your life on things eternal

Hold to God’s unchanging hands.”

Now when my spirit speaks, or sings, over and over, and above my own thoughts, I have learned to pay attention because Amos 2:7 says that the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will not do a thing unless he has revealed HIS confidential matter to HIS servants the prophets. So, I found myself sitting and listening with my eyes, my heart, my mind and my ears and what do I hear:

NOTHING

There was a lot of movement around me, and I paid attention to everything. There was busyness all around me, by those at the front desk making calls, working with files, sorting files, etc. Initially, the waiting room was crowded, and then all of a sudden there was just me and another woman sitting, waiting to be called. A TV played in the corner, and I felt extremely sleepy as I continued to meditate on “Holding to God’s unchanging hands, and Building my life on things eternal.”

This was the only thing on my heart, and I found myself asking, “What is it that I am holding on to? In what do I place my trust? Who am I believing in and relying on? And, who do I expect from?”

I have this crazy type of faith in which everything that I need and everything that I have, I don’t attribute it to man, I attribute it to God.  You see, he promised me at Matthew 6:33, 34 that if I sought first HIS Kingdom that all other things would be added unto, and HE promised me that HE would never leave me, nor forsake me.

He is Jehovah-Jireh, my provider and I promise you that month after month, my husband will tell you, our bills are paid. We have what we need to keep ourselves and our home clean. Our home is comfortably furnished. What we have, we appreciate. What we don’t have, we don’t miss.

He is Jehovah Rapha, our healer. When I had fallen prey to whatever the germ was that had been attacking people, God placed in my access an article about the healing properties of onions. I tried it and was better to the point that I was able to travel and, to date, everyone that I told about placing raw onions in the rooms where those who are sick frequent have also reported that they too have recovered.

He is Jehovah Shalom, my peace. All types of storms has arisen and raged around me, but in the midst of them all I held tight to my Father’s hands, and I have overcome mountain after mountain after mountain.

God’s Word says at 2 Corinthians 4:8 that we are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair, and this is true because with each mountain I have had to face there was also some type of blessing that came with it to balance it out.

What do I mean by that?

Take this for example,

A blistering hot summer day is balanced out by the crisp cool breeze that brushes past one’s face. This is what it has felt like for me when I’d find myself going through a trial that seemed hard yet in the midst of that trial I would receive a huge blessing.

Lately, in all that I have had to face, the song that has resonated so deeply in my spirit, so as to encourage me to hold on through it all, was Jekalyn Carr’s Your Greater Is Coming

It says:

 If it had not been for the shaking I never would have been ready for the making no

And if it had not been for the beating I would have never known how anointed I would be

If it had not been for the pressing I wouldn’t be able to walk into my destiny

He’s preparing me, preparing me, preparing me for greater…

And I’m able to hold on when I feel as if I am being physically, mentally, and spiritually pressed because I know in my heart that Greater is Coming.

So what are you holding onto?