ARE YOU HURT WITH GOD?
DON'T BE SCANDALIZED!
MANY INSIDE THE CHURCHES HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH THIS!
THIS IS MORE COMMON THAN WE IMAGINE AND IT HAS HAPPENED WITH FREQUENCY, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE MANY OF US DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH GOD'S NO FOR OUR PRAYERS OR AFFLICTIONS...AND FOR MANY, MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD THINK THEY ARE UNTOUCHABLE, ANGELS , GODS ON EARTH, WHEN IN THE TRUTH, THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS, SUSCEPTIBLE TO ANY SUFFERING AND PROVATION!
YES! THIS CAN HAPPEN! WE ARE HUMAN, WE ARE FRUSTRATED, WE ARE SAD, DISAPPOINTED, HURT WITH PEOPLE BUT ALSO WITH GOD. OUR VISION IS LIMITED AND SOMETIMES, WHEN WE FIND OURSELVES IN SITUATIONS OF ADVERSITY, SADNESS, IN THE MIDST OF LIFE'S STORMS AND WE FEEL HELPED, ABANDONED, NOT HEARD, NOT ATTENDED, YES WE CAN! WE HURT WITH GOD! THE ISSUE IS THAT GOD ALWAYS HAS THE BEST FOR US AND KNOWS WHAT HE DOES AND WHAT HE ALLOWS FOR OUR GOOD, FOR OUR GROWTH. NOT OURSELVES, WE BLAME GOD AND NOT OUR OWN SINS. IT IS CLEAR THAT SATAN IN ADDITION TO SUGGESTING IN THE MIND, TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO GET AWAY SURROUNDING AGAINST GOD, HE WANTS US TO ABANDON OUR FAITH IN GOD, HE WANTS US TO BLASPHEMATE. THIS HAPPENED TO DAVI, GIDEON AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO US!!! THIS NORMALLY HAPPENS WHEN DUE TO A PROBLEM WE ARE FACING, WE ASK FOR HELP FROM GOD AND WE THINK WE HAVE NOT BEEN ANSWERED BECAUSE THE ANSWER WAS NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED. WHEN WE SUFFER LOSS. ANY LOSS: FINANCIAL LOSS, BANKRUPTCY. WHEN WE LOSE A MARRIAGE, A SITUATION OF DIVORCE OR BETRAYAL. WHEN WE LOSE OUR HEALTH AND ARE AFFECTED BY A TERMINAL ILLNESS. WHEN THE DIAGNOSIS IS DEATH. WHEN WE LOST A LOVED ONE THAT WE LOVE TO DEATH. WHEN YOU LOST A MURDERED CHILD, WHEN YOU HAVE AN ABORTION OF AN EXPECTED CHILD. WHEN A CHILD IS LOST TO DRUGS, TO CRIME. WHEN A TRAGEDY, ACCIDENT, FATALITY HAPPENS TO THOSE WE LOVE. WHEN WE LOST EVERYTHING WE HAVE GAINED IN A NATURAL DISASTER, IN A FLOODING, IN AN EARTHQUAKE. WHEN WE SUFFER A PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA. WHEN DEPRESSION HITS US. WHEN PANIC ASSOCIATES US. WHEN FEAR ATTACKS OUR HEARTS. WE NORMALLY ASK WHERE IS GOD? WHERE WAS GOD WHEN THIS HAPPENED? WHY DIDN'T GOD ANSWER ME? WHY DIDN'T GOD SAVE MY LOVED ONE? WHY DIDN'T GOD PREVENT THIS TRAGEDY? WHY DIDN'T GOD INTERVENE IN THIS SITUATION? BECAUSE DESPITE PRAYING AND BEING FAITHFUL TO GOD.
Psalms 73:1-28
1 Truly good is God to Israel, to the pure in heart.
2 As for me, my feet have almost strayed; there was little left for my steps to slip.
3 For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For in his death there are no hardships, but firm is his strength.
5 They are not in trouble like other men, nor are they afflicted like other men.
6 That is why pride surrounds them like a necklace; they clothe themselves with violence as with adornment.
7 Their eyes are swollen with fat; they have more than the heart could desire.
8 They are corrupted and maliciously deal with oppression; speak arrogantly.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues walk the earth.
10 That is why his people come back here, and water from a full glass is squeezed out to them.
11 And they say: How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked, and prosper in the world; increase in riches.
13 Indeed, in vain have I purified my heart; and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all day I have been afflicted, and every morning I have been punished.
15 If I said: I will speak like this; behold, I would offend the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought about understanding this, it was very painful for me;
17 Until I entered the sanctuary of God; so I understood their end.
18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you hurl them into destruction.
19 How they fall into desolation, almost in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream, when you wake up, so, O Lord, when you wake up, you will despise their appearance.
21 So my heart turned sour, and my kidneys sting.
22 So I was brutalized, and I knew nothing; I was like an animal before you.
23 However, I am continually with you; you held me by my right hand.
24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Who do I have in heaven if not you? and there is none on earth that I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you have destroyed all those who stray from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; I put my trust in the Lord GOD, to declare all your works.
2 SAMUEL 6:1-23
1 And David gathered again all the chosen of Israel, to the number of thirty thousand.
2 And David arose, and departed, and all the people that were with him, to Baalim of Judah, to carry up from there the ark of God, upon which the name is invoked, the name of the LORD of hosts, which is sits between the cherubim.
3 And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which is in Gibeah; and Uzá and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, drove the new chariot.
4 And taking him from the house of Abinadab, which is in Gibeah, with the ark of God, Ahio went before the ark.
5 And David, and all the house of Israel, feasted before the LORD, with all sorts of instruments of beech wood, and also with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with tambourines, and with cymbals.
6 And when he came to the threshing floor of Nacom, Uzzah stretched out his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; because the oxen let it hang.
7 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for this recklessness; and he died there by the ark of God.
8And David was grieved, because the Lord had broken through Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-Uzah, to this day.
9 And David feared the Lord that day; and he said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
10 And David would not take the ark of the Lord to him from the city of David; but David had her brought to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
11 And the ark of the Lord stayed in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his house.
12 Then they told David, saying, The LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had, because of the ark of God; So David went and brought the ark of God up from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with joy.
13 And it came to pass, when those who carried the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed oxen and fat rams.
14 And David leaped before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 So going up, David and all Israel brought the ark of the Lord with shouting and the sound of trumpets.
16 And it came to pass, as the ark of the Lord entered the city of David, that Michal, Saul's daughter, was looking through the window; and when she saw King David dancing and leaping before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
17 And bringing in the ark of the Lord, they set it in its place, in the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
18 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
19 And he apportioned to all the people, and to the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of meat, and a flask of wine; then all the people departed, each to his own house,
20 And when David returned to bless his house, Michal, Saul's daughter, went out to meet David, and said, How honorable was the king of Israel, discovering himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as without embarrassment one discovers any of the strays.
21 But David said to Michal, "Before the Lord, who chose me above your father and all his house, commanding me to be ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel, before the Lord I have glad.
22 And even more than this I will belittle myself, and humble myself in my own eyes; but of the handmaids, of whom you spoke, by them I will be honored.
23 And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no children until the day of her death.
JUDGES 6:1-40
1 But the children of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.
2 And when the hand of the Midianites prevailed over Israel, the children of Israel made for themselves, because of the Midianites, the caves that are in the mountains, the caves and the fortifications.
3 For it came to pass, when Israel sowed, that the Midianites and the Amalekites, and also those from the east, came up against him.
4 And they set themselves against him in the field, and destroyed the fruits of the land, until they came to Gaza; and they left no food in Israel, neither sheep nor oxen nor donkeys.
5 For they went up with their cattle and tents; they came like locusts, in such a great multitude that they could not be counted, neither them nor their camels; and entered the land to destroy it.
6 So Israel was greatly impoverished by the presence of the Midianites; so the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.
7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,
8 The LORD sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought you up out of Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage;
9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you; and I drove them out before you, and gave you their land.
10 And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but you did not listen to my voice.
11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that is in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress, to save it from the Midianites.
12 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, The Lord is with you, mighty man of valor.
13 But Gideon answered him, Oh, my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And what of all his wonders which our fathers told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us, and given us into the hand of the Midianites.
14 Then the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel out of the hand of Midian; did I not send you?
15 And he said unto him, Alas, my Lord, with what shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
16 And the Lord said unto him, Because I will be with thee, thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
17 And he said: If now I have found grace in your eyes, give me a sign that you are the one who is talking to me.
18 I beg you, do not depart from here until I return and bring my gift and set it before you. And he said: I will wait until you come back.
19 And Gideon went in and prepared a kid and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in a basket and the broth he put in a pot; and he brought it to him under the oak, and offered it to him.
20 But the angel of God said to him, Take the meat and the unleavened bread, and place them on this rock, and pour out the broth. And so he did.
21 And the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; then he ascended fire from the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread; and the angel of the Lord disappeared from his eyes.
22 Then Gideon saw that it was the angel of the LORD, and he said, Ah, Lord GOD, for I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.
23 But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; fear not; thou shalt not die.
24 So Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it, THE LORD IS PEACE; and even to this day it is in Ofra of the Abiezrites.
25 And it came to pass that same night, that the Lord said to him, Take the ox that belongs to your father, that is, the second ox of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal, which is your father's; and cut down the wood that was beside him.
26 And build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, in a convenient place; and take the second ox, and offer it up as a burnt offering with the wood that you cut down from the forest.
27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants, and did as the Lord had told him; and it came to pass, fearing his father's house, and the men of that city, that he did not do it by day, but did it by night.
28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was thrown down, and the forest was cut down beside it; and the second bull offered on the altar that had been built.
29 And they said to one another, Who did this thing? And when they searched and inquired, they said, Gideon the son of Joash did this thing.
30 Then the men of that city said to Joash, Bring your son out; so that he dies; for he broke down the altar of Baal, and cut down the grove that was beside it.
31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Will you deliver him? Whoever contends for him this morning will be killed; if he is god, by himself contend; for they tore down his altar.
32 Therefore on that day they called his name Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him, for he has torn down his altar.
33 And all the Midianites and Amalekites, and the children of the east, gathered together, and passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
34 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew the horn, and the Abiezrites gathered after him.
35 And he sent messengers through all the tribe of Manasseh, who also gathered after him; he also sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali, who went out to meet him.
36 And Gideon said to God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,
37 Behold, I will lay a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if the dew is only on the fleece, and all the land is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.
38 And so it was; because the next day he got up early in the morning, and squeezed the fleece; and from the dew which he wrung from the fleece he filled a cup of water.
39 And Gideon said to God, Do not let your anger burn against me, if I still speak just this once; I beg you, just this once do the test with the fleece; I pray that only the fleece remains dry, and on all the earth there is dew.
40 And God did so that night; for only the fleece was dry, and there was dew on all the land.
BREAK THIS CYCLE OF SORROW WITH GOD THAT POISONS YOUR EYES, YOUR SOUL AND IMPRESSES YOU IN SUFFERING, IN PAIN AND IN A FEELING OF ABANDONMENT. AFTER ALL AS PEDRO SAID:
John 6:68
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
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