Do you understand what I am going through?

Do you understand what I am going through?

 

1 Thessalonians 5:18 “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

  When I read scriptures like this I wonder if Paul was leaving in this world or if he understands what we go through.

   When we were about to have our second boy, my wife was in serious labor pains, and each time I will hold her hand with care and comfort and I will say ‘honey it will be alright, I understand’ I just kept saying ‘honey I understand what you are going through’ she looked at me and said ‘I hate it when you keep saying you understand’ I asked her why and she said ‘because you don’t understand, you cannot, because you have never been pregnant’ ‘tell me something else don’t tell me you understand’ she concluded, a bit harsh but truth, it made me understand that you will never understand the pinch of the shoe until you are in the shoes.

     You will never know what somebody is going through until you go through that thing, even at that; some people go through similar things at different levels. I may not know what you are going through but I know someone who knows what you are going through and His name is God, and I know some people who were going through something and their names where Paul and Silas. I will give you their formula and get out of your way this week.

Act 16:25 “But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.  Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.” NKJV

  Midnight is a position where the morning meets the night, and literary it is the darkest moments of the dark or of night. Sometimes you go through situations in life and it comes to point where you start thinking ‘this is too much for me to bear, enough is enough,’ but the truth is that the further the problem goes the nearer it gets to its solution. The Bible says weeping may endure in the night but joy comes in the morning. I want you to know that whatever situation you are going through, your morning is coming.

     The bible says Paul (the same Paul who said we should give thanks in every thing)  and Silas after being beaten where thrown into jail with their hands tied to the pillar; they were beaten until blood was coming out. But instead of concentrating on their wounds and what was happening to them, the Bible says they were praising God and singing hymes can you imagine? The messages bible says in verse 26 ‘….the other prisoners couldn’t believe their ears’. You know why? Because when the sun is shining, everyone can sing, when thinks are good everybody can shout praise God! But when you are in the Philippians jail inner prison with your hands tied to a pillar, it takes something to praise God in that condition, some of us will wet out pants seven times an hour.

   Paul and Silas did not look at their wounds or the conditions they were in, they focused on God not with complains but with songs of praise to God and that is the greatest formula. At the midnight of your problem at a point where you think it is too much, at a point when the devil has put you and thinks you cannot come out use Paul and silas’s formula, they praised God in the midst of trouble. They did not deny that the problem was there, they did not deny the facts of the problem but they did not act by feelings, they focused on God. And listen to the three things that happened after that 1) suddenly there was an earth quake and the foundation of the prison was shaken, anything that has bound you down I pray that as you praise God today it will not only be broken but it will be shaken and destroyed from the foundation, the roots (spiritual realm) in Jesus name. 2) Immediately the doors were opened, I pray that any door that you have been waiting to open in your life, as you praise God in your condition today those doors will begin to fling open in Jesus name? 3) Every ones chains were loose, as you praise God, he will not only lose your chains for you to do what you could not do, but He will lose the chains of everyone around you.

    My assignment this week is to say what Paul said to the Philippians Church Phil 4:4 ‘Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!’ and I will say even in the midnight of your problem, rejoice.