My Inspiration When You’re in a Desert Place By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image credit: eternalarrival.com
In Mark 6, we are told three times that We feel strength that Jesus spent an entire we didn’t have, courday teaching thouage to keep moving sands of people in “a foward, grace to endesert place.” Late in dure. We look back the day, His disciples and think, “How did said, “There’s nothI make it through that ing to eat in this desert place. Send the people home.” loss, sickness, difficulty?” It was God giving you grass Jesus, however, answered, in the desert. God mak“You feed them.” ing the hard places easiYou can flourish in the desert. Right now God is er. Without His grace you creating grass in your desert place. You can prosper in a pandemic and you They said, “With what?” can succeed in a down year. Now don’t talk yourself out of it. The Most High would have gone under. those hard places easier than you Jesus asked them for what God is on your side. He’s going to make think. they had and they gave He didn’t stop the trouble, Him five loaves of bread but He kept the trouble and two fish. Then Jesus from stopping you. You directed them to have the may be in a desert place, crowd sit down in groups “on the green grass.” While facing something that you weren’t expecting, but it’s the people were tired and hungry, and before Jesus not a surprise to God. He has a green pasture that multiplied the food miraculously, God gave them He’s already ordained for you. It’s going to be easier grass in the desert. than you think. He made the hard place easier for them. He didn’t stop them from going into the desert or keep them from the heat, but He lightened the load. We all go through desert places in life - problems that should overwhelm us, giants that should defeat us. Somehow, in the midst of these challenges, there’s a force sustaining us.
You can flourish in the desert. Right now God is creating grass in your desert place. You can prosper in a pandemic and you can succeed in a down year. Now don’t talk yourself out of it. The Most High God is on your side. He’s going to make those hard places easier than you think.
TT 143 | MAR 8th - 14th | 2022
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