Have you ever felt like you are drowning in your thoughts? Like you get caught up in them, feeling like you are in a tornado, spinning faster and faster. To the point, where you can’t stop thinking, feeling paralised and unable to break out of your thoughts.
I’ve always been someone who overthinks pretty much everything, even the smallest details. In the past few months, there have happened so many things and there have been so many new things and changes in my life. I’ve finished my a-levels, started my apprenticeship, lost my grandpa and welcomed another pony to my little pony herd, just to give a few examples. I experienced all kinds of emotions, went through highs and the lowest lows I ever went through.
And through all that, my thoughts were one of the hardest things to deal with.
Believing that God has a great and wonderful plan for my life, that he wants me to fulfill, I really want to follow his plans and not mine. And since I’m not really a patient person, I’d like to get to the finish line as fast as I can with not a single detour. Therefore, I was always thinking about my recent decisions, especially regarding my apprenticeship. And that then led to me letting in doubts and worries. So many questions and thoughts really fogged up my mind. What if God has a different plan for me? What if he wants me somewhere else? What if my decision to do this specific apprenticeship is going to lead to me taking longer to fulfill God’s plan for me? And so forth and so on.
All this thinking gave me headaches and at times, I really thought my head was gonna explode soon. I was so confused and was longing for peace. I prayed to God, asking for peace and begged and begged him over and over to tell me what to do. It took some time for me to be calm enough to listen to what God was trying to say to me, but I finally realized that my thoughts and my mindset were the biggest of my problems. That they were the thing, that kept me from enjoying my life, despite whatever circumstances are around me. From that moment on, I tried to focus on everything good and thinking positive thoughts, rather than letting negative and doubtful thoughts take over. I would be lying to you if I told you it was easy - it was the opposite. Changing my thoughts and mindset was hard work and often times, it felt like a battle. A battle of thoughts, if you will. I had to fight every single day, praying and relying on God’s strength and help. Some days were easier, some days were harder. The progress was slow and often times it felt like there was none at all.
Now, a few months have passed and I’m so glad, that even though it was a slow process, I learned how to control my thoughts and lead them in the right directions with God’s help. Surely, there is still a lot more room to grow and I’m not at the finish line yet. But I’m also not where I was 3 months ago and as long as I keep going and making progress, that’s completely fine. Because at the end of the day, the only thing God is really interested in, is the attitudes of our hearts.
On that note, I would like to end this blog entry. I hope my little testimony maybe encourages you a little to keep on fighting with God’s help. He loves you and he will help you get through whatever it is your struggling with.
Finally I'm here but I'm not alone Christ is in me , sounds crazy right but when Jesus died he sent us the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) to live in us. That means Christ is always in me God himself (three in one) so no matter what I face He is with me. Why is this relevant ? because I am miserable when I look at the world and the standards it suggests we live by but with God in me He shows me His standards and guides me on which paths to take which aren't always easy but they guarantee pure GREATNESS and HOPE who can resist that. Lemme tell you something, I can't fall into depression because He reminds me greater is He who lives in me than He who is in the world. I can't stay sick because He says by His stripes I am healed. I can't stay anxious because He tells me Don't be anxious for anything , I can't stay frustrated or despondent because He reminds me that I should cheer up for He has overcome. Yes He says all this and more!!!!
Those are just some of the reasons why I choose His standards, so He can change your life too and YOU can make His word, His standards your reality too by giving your life to Him at the comfort of your home or anywhere really, all it takes is for you to say this out loud and mean it in your heart:
PRAYER
Dear Jesus I know I am a sinner and need your forgiveness. I believe you died in my place and rose from the grave to make me new and to prepare me to live in your presence forever. Jesus , come into my life as my Lord and saviour, take control of my life, forgive my sins and save me. I place my trust in you alone for my salvation and I accept your free gift of eternal life in Jesus Name Amen!!
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!! YOU ARE NOW CHOOSING GODS STANDARDS !!!!
stay tuned for my next blog as we continue on this journey and I'll also share my journey filled with laughs and lots of ooooohhhs and ahhhhs
Battle and Faith Comics is more than just a business for me, I believe that it also my ministry.
God has been placing this upon my heart lately. I wish I could share everything God is doing in my life right now. But I can't because it's not time yet. But God is on the moving in big ways and I am so excited 😊
Last night I went to bed at 2 am and woke up around 6 am so I didn't get a whole lot of sleep, that is just how excited I am.
Don’t be afraid God is with you and He’s got you. God hasn’t forgotten you. Keep your eyes on Him and don’t doubt God. He knows best and He knows it all and when you have faith in God also having faith in His timing. God’s timing is perfect. 😇🙌🏼✝️🙏🏼
With this blog, I want to share my life as a believer in Jesus Christ. I want to share my experiences, my thoughts.
Now you may be wondering why I would want to do that.
Well, in my experience, when I’m down, when I have doubts or when I feel like I’m all alone with my troubles and feel like God isn’t working, it really helps me to read about other people, who experienced similar things and read how God worked things out for the best in the end.
So with this blog, I want to try to share my life and thoughts so I can encourage others and show them that they are not alone.
God is good and he loves you! He’s alive and he’s working in this world and in your life, if you let him. He will work things out for the better, even if you cannot see it yet!
God will do great things for those who trust in Him. The reason why His professed people have no greater strength is that they trust so much to their own wisdom, and do not give the Lord an opportunity to reveal His power in their behalf. He will help His believing children in every emergency if they will place their entire confidence in Him and faithfully obey Him. - PP 493.2