We all feel under attack from time to time. In fact, you may feel under attack right now. Maybe it’s the economy. Maybe is President Donald trump or your bias media, Maybe you’ve lost your job, your income, you love one, may be you are going throw divorce or your retirement. Or maybe you’re feeling under attack from your friends or family, or even your own mind.
May be you are feeling alone or stressed, or may be you failed your exam once or twice and lost confidence of yourself. May be your boss or manager giving you a hard time and uses you as the underdog at work. May be your girlfriend or the one you love having a cold feet and decided to be the runaway bride. May be your lost your dog or a cat or some you love to MVA.
You think you’re all alone in these stressful situations, you see no light in the end of the tunnel. You asked so many people for a job and all brushed you of and gave you many excuses, your EI is running out and you see only the Food bank or the welfare application as your next step. You give up and your surrender to hopelessness. But that what exactly what the devil want you to do to surrender to depression , stress and curios so he can lore you to alcohol, drugs, thefts and criminal activities and total destruction and may be suicide.
It is a test of your faith and God is watching and waiting for your prayers. The devil will try to plant the seed of doubt about how God is going to help you and will whisper to your mind to avoid God and depend on yourself and be rude, aggressive and bully to get what you want.
Yet you’re not alone, and God can help you , but you have to keep asking , keep looking and keep knocking doors. You must pray and ask God first before any body else and trust me on this .You simply need him to show you all that is at your disposal for your protection.
Just few days ago I have a colleague who lost her job. The job market in Calgary is tough and she is one of the best in the ultrasound market, but no one is hiring and if the do hire they are looking for new graduates so they can pay them less .She finish her few weeks UE and has nowhere to go, she has no friends in Calgary because she moved from Ontario to start working here last year. The boss let her go because she don’t like to techs the new technologists who are foreign and not graduated in Canada colleagues.
Those foreign doctors came from Iran, Pakistan, India and other places and go to 2 weeks bridging program and then challenge the sonography Canada exam and then sent to the market. 90% of them are useless scanners, slow, miss so many pathologies and compete with our small market as they re accepting lower salaries. In return the Government pay the clinic money for those students to be trained. Many other clinic refused to take them so NAIT AND SAIT and other government organizations lobbies to pay any clinic who can accept to train them.
She refused teaching and said she is not a teacher and she was hired as a sonographer. She lost her job and replaced by one of those shortcut sonographers .She called me and told me she is broke and don’t know what t do.
I told to her that all I can offer for her now is a place to stay for free, and food so she can stand on her feet along with her son. She was so happy and told me she is driving with her son to my place and I asked her to pray to God and ask him for help too .
I went to my Prayer room that I call God room. A room in my house designed for God only , I bow to God and prayed , and asked him that I am not praying for myself , I m prying for a friend in need , a friend in despair and nowhere to go and I cannot afford more than shelter and food that God provided me with his blessing .
The devil was making fun of me, and I can feel it, but I kept praying and asking God for help, knowing that he will in time .We did our home work. She sent her CV and work applications to some places that I gave her. But I never expected God will make it so fast. She just arrived today with her son from 16 hours drive .I made lunch for them and we all prayed and eat , they were so tired and went to sleep in the basement suite.
I kept praying deep in my heart .After few hours she came running upstairs from the basement, screaming good news, good news Steve I have got a job.
The friend that I emailed 2 days ago has texted her and gave her an offer, the clinic is an 8 hours drive from my place.
She was and still so happy and tears went down on her cheek and I can feel the happiness mixed with her tears. I open my place my room my basement as a simple jester of help and I opened a small window of help for her but God opened a hall door in a short time by providing people to help people in the time of need .
Before you let someone go try to find out what their life will be without a job. Put yourself in their shoe be a leader a human being and not just a supervisor following order or a manager with no heart .Because one day you will go down and you will pay with your health and pocket money because God gave you enough time to make it better but you made your choice and now you will suffer and no one will help you.
Don’t underestimate the prayer of the poor and orphans, the prayers of widow and a poor lady who done nothing wrong but to stand for herself. God is watching and calculating every move you make.
And that’s what happened in 2 Kings 6. The nation of Aram was always at war with Elisha tribes. Yet every time they would attack them, God would tell Elisha, a prophet of God in that time, what the king of Aram’s war plans were. So the prophet and his army would win over and over again. When Aram’s king learned that Elisha was the one who was giving away his plans, he sent an army to get him.
Elisha’s servant woke up and went outside one morning to see that he and Elisha were surrounded by massive enemy troops.
Scared, he ran back in and asked Elisha, “What are we going to do?” Then Elisha said: “Don’t worry. The people on our side far outnumber those against us. As far as the serpent knew, only two people (Elisha and himself) were on their side! What he was talking about! Where are the helpers?
So Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” (2 Kings 2:17 NLT). And so God did. Suddenly, Elisha’s servant saw a massive army of angels 10 times larger in numbers and might on the hills outside ready to protect them from the army of Aram.
The servant wasn’t scared anymore, and God gave Elisha just the right tactics to defeat the enemy Aram (without ever firing a shot at them).
Just like Elisha and his servant, you have things attacking you right now as I mentioned before . You’re tempted to panic. The truth is, you have a whole lot more that’s for you than against you.
But when you’re in the midst of being attacked, you just can’t see it. The devil blinds your mind. You need to pray for God help , pray in good faith and ask him for simple things don’t be shy or arrogant ,trust in him that he will provide giving that you do your home work, try and make contacts. Knock the doors and prepare for the gift.
God needs to open your eyes to all that is on your side. Like Elisha, you just need to ask him for help. May be the angel he will send you is another human being, a friend, a family member , or a stranger to be your angel.
Even though you can’t see them, God has released his forces to protect you. Will you ask him to open your eyes to them? Make your first step to help yourself and help others in need .Be kind, get the knowledge and wisdom and to understand how to remove the cloud and the curtains from your eyes .Do you know when you read the holy books in the morning before the sunrise the angels are all around you listening .
Good night and thank you for reading as my friend and her son are sleeping now I will pray and retire to bed myself.
God bless.
Steve Ramsey- Calgary , Alberta – Canada.