The Chair; A Personal Meeting With God (2012)/Rashea@LLO2 Academy
Work was a challenge. Home was in transition. Ministry had its highs and lows, and I was down in the basement in tears before the Lord.
I was so use to going to my inner circle for advice, but this time no one had the answers. Lord. What is going on?!
Pain. Frustration. Tension. And discomfort.
I looked at the lounge chair in the corner by the stairs leading up the stairs, and with tears in my eyes I heard God say, "Have a seat."
While weeping like a baby, desperate for relief and answers through it all, God said to me, "Rashea, I did this on purpose."
Not the situation, but the lack of answers and help from people to get through it all.
God said, "I allowed this. I want you to learn that there are some things that only I can solve and help you through."
"Hun!" Stunned at His reply to me but sobered enough to stop crying and to listen intently to what God was saying to me.
"Rashea, you have to learn to rely on me. Trust me as your God and not people."
Some people may wonder why I run to God about everything, well... this is why. That meeting with Jesus alone in the basement changed everything. "Run to God," echoed in my spirit.
And every since that day, that very moment, I have. I run to God first. He sure did bring me out of it all, but it was through relying on Him above all else.
God wanted to teach me that HE alone was my God, the all sufficient One. I saw God turn situations around that I knew and others around me knew that it was no body but God that brought me out. After that meeting with God, I learned to listen with my spirit and not so much my thoughts and emotions. I learned that, when you allow yourself to be led by God's Word and the Holy Spirit, your thoughts and emotions will eventually align to what God is saying and leading you to do.
That meeting with God in 2012 changed me. Some encounters with God empower you to change and to see God's power change things in your favor. It was nobody but God.
I have learned that we become who we are through divine encounters, life lessons learned and by changing. The only way to see change sometimes is by encounter God alone. I have been forever changed by a meeting with God alone in 2012 in a basement filled with boxes in a corner, a lounge chair and nothingness.
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