God Is Stepping In!

 Hi!

It's been so long since I sat behind this screen and wrote to you guys. 

I've been missing for so long. 

Right at this moment, I am writing from the valley. A place where I don't know how I will get out of. 

I battled between leaning into the reality that I am in the valley and must work out my feelings and emotions before addressing you guys with anything. 

Or.

To use this moment that even in the valley to still allow God to use me to encourage someone else. I do not want my encouragement to be filtered by what I am going through because I am aware that not everyone is in the same valley.

The thing is, encouraging someone else while you yourself are in need of encouragement is a strength-giving talent only given by God. 

However, despite all of this, I chose the latter. 

Writing, encouraging others, and spreading God's Word are MY love. 

And I learned that even in the midst of my soul being broken and my heart being shattered, these things are still what I cling to. These parts of my heart still make me want to live and that is a big difference from before. 

Many of you who have been here from day one would have been aware that I have mentioned my attempted suicide. 

It was a moment in my life where I had fallen so low beyond redemption that I didn't feel worth it. 

I received encouraging words from others. I received the motivation that I was enough and God loves me, but I was so unresponsive to them. 

I had nothing in my own will to live for regardless of how many people told me that I did have a reason. 

The only things that have me here today are a dull knife and God's intervention. 

It was one of my very first experiences of proving that God was indeed on my side. 

So on my side. 

He stepped in when I needed Him most and He came to my rescue. 

Everyone had whispered and everyone had tried, but their attempts were futile when it came to God. 

He stepped in at the very last moment. The moment when I had already come to peace with how I would end. 

He stepped in and said, "This is not My plan for you" 

"My plan is to give you a prosperous future and expected in. That is My plan" 

Today, I am not going to withhold my encouragement because I am also experiencing the heat of the battle, but I am going to spread it because I know am not the only one. 

I want you to know who read this today that God is going to step in!

Right now, it feels like you're in the last stage of it. 

It just can't get any worse than this!

The songs aren't helping. The different ways to heal don't seem to work. 

You've prayed. You've cried. 

God knows you've cried!

You have tried everything and you've finally come to the conclusion that this is it. 

This is the end. There's is no energy to step forward. 

But, I want to remind you that God promised that He would never leave us nor forsake us. 

He said in His Word that Everything will work well for those that love Him according to His purpose. 

He said that He will come to our rescue when we call on His Name. 

I want to remind you that, God Will Step In!

The enemy wants to say that it is your end. 

You want to say that it is the end. 

But, nothing is an end with God. 

He is Eternity and when everything passes away, His Word and Promise still stand. 

Right now I am clinging to these reminders!

I am clinging to the parts where God showed up just in the nick of time. 

I am clinging to His Word. Because I remember where He healed. Where He delivered. Where He restored. Where He made ways out of dead ends. Miracles happened. 

I dare you to cling to the reminders today. 

Cling to what He has done for you before and if you have no testimony then cling to mine or to what you have read in the Bible. 

His Word can not lie!

I don't want to die. I don't want to end my battle here. I want to prove God for who He is and I want the same for you!

God is stepping in!

~TheRay