Jeremiah 32:27 ‘Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?’
DAILY READING; Matthew 7; Exodus 37:1-38:31; Proverbs 17
David Winans was born outside of wedlock in 1934 by a mother who was a singer. After his birth, his father denied his paternity and his mother was left alone to raise him. Eventually, his paternal grandfather, Isaiah Winans, who was a pastor took him in and brought him up in the Church.
David followed his mother’s footsteps into music, and occasionally sang with Gospel bands. As a young adult, David got a regular job with the Dodge assembly line. But the day before his wedding in 1953, David Winans was shocked to find himself fired from his job. With no money, he and his new bride struggled financially, but they kept their focus on God.
During this time, David was appointed to take over as the pastor in his grandfather’s Church in Detroit. Besides pastoral work, David and his wife, sometimes worked two or three jobs to make ends meet, but the church was the most important part of their lives.
Over the years, they had ten children whom they endeavored to raise up in the ways of the Lord.
David was so committed in raising his children to follow the Lord that all their activities outside of school, revolved around the Church.
Being constantly in the Church, singing and music became a way of life for these ten kids and they began to exhibit great musical talents.
When they recorded their first album in 1983, the family’s musical talent finally came to the limelight and gained public acclaim. Today, few families have been influential on the development of Gospel music as the Winans family. Prominent among the Winans family is CeCe Winans who is the best-selling and most-awarded female Gospel artist of all time. As the patriarch of the family, David ‘Pop’ Winans enjoyed great honor and acclaim until his death in 2009.
The story of David Winans teaches us that men’s rejection cannot stop God’s projection for your life.
If you’re going to become all God has created you to be, you can’t let setbacks or disappointments stop you. You may get knocked down but don’t get knocked out. No matter what life throws your way, get back up and keep moving forward.
Understand that God has a plan of bringing forth beauty out of your ashes.
In the scriptures, Job went through all kinds of tough times, but in the midst of his pain Job still proclaimed, “I know my redeemer lives”. And in the end God brought full restoration and Job went on to live a blessed, happy life.
The truth is that in the game of life, everyone, at one time or the other has suffered some injury. But you can’t let your hurt be an excuse to quit playing. Sometimes you have to play even in the pain.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to soar even in the storm. Eventually every storm runs out of rain, just like the dark night turns into day.
Today, many people are sitting on the sidelines of life, nursing their wounds, not moving forward because of what they’ve been through. But that is not your case as a child of God. You have a victorious destiny in Christ: You may be challenged, but you are not permitted to be defeated. Christ causes us to triumph always (2 Corinthians 2:14).
No matter how contrary any situation, keep your focus on God’s Word until your mind is renewed to see things through the eyes of faith. God’s Word births the pictures of victory within us. And as we hold on to those inner pictures, they will eventually manifest as our outward reality.
Today, you may be a nobody, have no money, no name or fame, but never limit what God can do in your life. We serve the God of miracles to whom nothing is impossible. He says in Jeremiah 32:27 ‘Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?’
Certainly, nothing is too hard for God. Therefore, in everything let us give thanks. As you turn your pain to praise, and turn your worry into worship, surely, God will turn your battles into blessings.
PRAYER: Lord, I know with You nothing shall be impossible. Please help me to focus on your Word and to praise You always. I thank You because certainly, everything will eventually work together for my good in Jesus Name.
QUOTE:
You will never need more than God to experience the impossible in life. WORDBITE 222.
Shalom!
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