Thread by @BethMooreLPM

But I call to God & the Lord will save me...He will redeem me from my battle unharmed. Ps55:16,18

Want to speak into this for those in a battle. God has allowed some furious battles in my life & some of them unrelenting & ongoing. I’ve thought at times I wouldn’t survive them...

Understand, I’m pretty hearty. I have a fairly high tolerance for pain. But, in a few of these battles, I felt torn to pieces. Honestly shredded. Several years ago, I sat before the Lord reflecting on all of this, utterly bewildered by a lifetime of 1 fierce battle after another.

The kind of thing I’m about to describe makes some people nervous (which perplexes me) but that’s fine if this helps someone. No, God didn’t speak out loud to me. Never has. But an unexpected question came clearly to my mind & I felt He’d stirred it: Did I let them do you harm?

My 1st reaction was, “YES!!! They nearly devoured me!” But then I sat a long time with this verse in front of me & thought how I was unexplainably in one piece. Resilient. I’d not been destroyed. The ministry was thriving & not even in spite of it all but, in part, because of it.

Some of those battle nearly killed me. But there I sat. Redeemed from them. “Unharmed.” I had joy. I’d learned lessons that had turned into messages. I’d written Bible studies amid most of them. I don’t know. Sometimes I think God‘s definition of unharmed and ours are different.

I guess I want to say to you this morning that sometimes you will not realize you’ve come out of a furious battle fairly well unharmed until you’re actually out of it. Sitting on the other side, unexplainably alive. Satan meant to destroy you but there God was, turning into good.

I know this leaves so much unanswered. By no means can we say that some things have not completely scarred us. Oh, they have. But I just want to speak faith into you this morning & voice this prayer for you:
May God come to your rescue and redeem you from your battle

UNHARMED.