3/29/20 "Content Is Everything"

3/29/20 

5 Minutes of Focus 

"Content Is Everything"

Check It's Content BEFORE forming an opinion because a book is not always represented well by it's cover. Often times a cover is just a cover up, hiding what's really going on inside of the book, inside of the person, as it was with Hannah.

From the outside looking in, Hannah looked like a drunk that had stumbled into the church and Eli, the priest called her out on it.

But public drunkenness (as it appeared to be) was just a cover...Hannah was really hurting; barren-unable to give life to her dream of having a son. The bible says: She was in anguish & crying and she admitted to being very discouraged. Still she found her way into the church, into the temple to pray.

1 Samuel 1:10-15 NLT

Many of you like Hannah are feeling discouraged and even though you're in the right place doing the right thing...You still got people talking about you; looking and judging you without knowing the real content of your character. As if, they've never been through something that made them act a little out of character. 

So what, if you're not acting exactly like yourself these days with everything going on around you lately...Who can blame you?

You're doing the best you can to maintain some level of normalcy and that in itself can be overwhelming. 

What's important though is not what they think, or have the nerve to say...What's important is that you're fighting through the discouragement, fighting through the anguish -the serve physical or mental distress, fighting through the tears by staying on your face in prayer, before a God that doesn't see you as man sees you. A God who does not judge you, but encourages you to come. Get out the boat, Peter, and come...Come, all who are weary, tired from carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest.

Matt 11:28 CEV Matt 14:28-29 NIV, 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV

Come; you belong to God....Ignore all the "so-called" perfect people who have never struggled with something in life, struggled in their walk with God etc. Truthfully, God is closer to you NOW than He will ever be to them (given their ungodly attitude).

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalms 34:18 NIV

Until Next Sunday.

Stay safe, Stay home.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy