"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me" There's nothing worse than being in a dark place, a lowly place, an empty place with no hope...even though you are alive it feels like death is eminent ...when you're in a valley it feels like everything is crumbling all around you....I say that because I remember when I was laid off from my job and shortly thereafter my family and I lost our home.....It was a low place...it was a valley...its during these times that I needed more than an encouraging phone call, text or voice mail....I needed God to intervene.......that's when I realized that God is all around us...David asked, "Whither can I go from your presence? If I made my bed in hell, you are there" ....so because God is omnipresent and I am where He is...I then realized when I'm in the valley, He's there with me....."I shall fear no evil for you are with me" Knowing that God is with you and for you causes a shift to happen in the atmosphere....all of a sudden I'm reminded that "God did not give us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind" It wasn't easy at first...but the more I prayed the more I trusted....the more I read His word the more I trusted...oftentimes dark valleys or dark places is where God does amazing work....remember in Genesis? "Darkness was on the face of the deep and God said, let there be light and there was light." Do you remember Paul and Salis? They were in a valley...locked in prision..."but at midnight Paul and Sialis prayed and sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard them and....suddenly there was an earthquake...there bonds broke" You may be reading this and you feel like you're in a dark place, a dismal place, a dry place....but I decree to you that greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world....what the devil meant for evil God blocked it....its all working together for your good.
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