Victory in hardships

Jonathan Joe
Aug 27, 2017 · 4 min read

“Oh what amazing love
We need Your cleansing flood
Jesus I come, Jesus I come
In every broken place
You are my righteousness
Jesus I come, Jesus I come”

-Elevation Worship “Jesus I come”.

In this past week God had broken me and humbled to my knees. The past ten days I have been doing a partial fast where I wouldn’t eat from a specific time frame. In that time that I was fasting I made sure I woke up around 8:00am-9:00am to go do QT and reflect on his word. God really did show my heart and my soul that I am so weak and so in need of Him. There were even times I forgot that I was fasting and almost bought food to eat at that time period I dedicated to not eating and praying. To me these were the signs of how my spiritual walk has been throughout my life. I have so much passion for God in the beginning, I have these huge goals for myself and for God but like the fast that I completed I slip up, I fail, I fall, and more eye-opening than anything else is I forget.

During those ten days, I went through a bible reading plan/QT that helped me throughout the fast. Each day I would pray about the topic I read and slowly the want of eating passed. I was getting better at making sure to not eat but also, I made sure that even when it was hard for me to not eat that I prayed to God in those times. For me my walk with God has been plagued with times that I do mess up big time and realize the path that I am on isn’t the one God has intended. This fast helped me realize in just a short amount of time that I need to give up EVERYTHING to him. When I prayed to God I wanted Him to allow his message to be spoken in my life through the fast and he spoke. He showed me through His faithfulness that he was with me and began to give me peace throughout the fast. I could focus my energy on reading/praying/ and living the way God wanted me to. I was able to conquer the ten days and this just showed me a small amount of God’s faithfulness and provision in my life. There is so much that he is doing that I wasn’t aware of yet I thought I knew it all. I thought I could sort my life out with ease but God knew I couldn’t and He made sure I relied on Him alone and His strength through it all. This was such a victory for me this year.

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God showed me victory through the news I did not want to receive this week. My co-op results came out this week and to my disappointment I wasn’t able to land the job offer for the co-op I wanted. I was given a difficult hand and I am still mulling over what I should do but this weekend has shown my victory in light of this bad news. This weekend I went to a retreat for the organization called GMMA. GMMA is an organization that does medical missions with undergrads from all over the world! I highly encourage students who are in the pre-med field to consider it. Anyway, all I really thought about was my co-op results during my retreat. I prayed a lot during this retreat of what I should do and the decision I should take. In a way, I tried my best to really let God make this decision for me and honestly it helped me to allow God to speak his will into my life. As of now I am close to choosing a co-op that has a lower pay, that isn’t in the field that I necessarily want to go to, and this company is a smaller one as well. All these things were factors that before this week were things I didn’t want to get involved in. I wanted to go to a big company, I wanted to have a high pay, and honestly, I wanted to go to a co-op that would relate to the field I wanted to go to when I graduated. Yet, for some strange feeling I feel as though God is calling me to choose this specific co-op. I was encouraged through the texts I got from friends who were looking out for me, I was given hope through the promise that God never fails, and I was assured that God had a plan that is NEVER short of success.

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I was given a new drive to really set up GMMA at Drexel not only for my sake but for the sake of others. GMMA in my eyes will be a tool that will allow others to really see God’s amazing works around the world but not only that but to be a community to show love to the people around us.

All these things that happened to me this week were victories that I honestly wouldn’t even have had if it weren’t for the amazing grace of God. I have an amazing community around me that reminds me so much of why a church IS needed. I hope that to all who read this article today or whenever that God is really affecting you in so many ways. Be patient in His plan and be steadfast in all things!

Thank you for reading !!!

Drexel GMMA officers !!

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This life.

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