Rise Above - Sore Above Your Life's Challenges to Discover Endless Possibilities.
This is my honest sharing of my experience of last year, 2025. I had never felt so hopeless as last year when my mother was suddenly separated from me physically through her death. For me, she was like an immortal being, full of faith, a prayer warrior, and a source of strength and protection, even though she was very old, close to 90 years old. She exhibited such control over her life and circumstances, and she was such a model for me to follow. When she passed away suddenly into glory, I felt very, very quietened in my soul, and I thought I had lost it all. Word of the Lord came by these words:
Psalm 131: 2 Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me [ceased from fretting].
3: O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forever.
I meditated on this verse again and again and repeatedly for weeks until I was saturated with it, and it became the sermon in churches I was called to share the WORD.
Grief is a very strong weapon, especially from losing a loved one. It might even kill a person. People have died just out of grief. When I was crying in the night out of grief, and I felt I was going to die of grief, the Holy Spirit immediately spoke to me through this verse from Psalm 30
10 Hear, O Lord, have mercy and be gracious to me! O Lord, be my helper!
11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, - He made me confess this verse and uprooted the deep grief from me.
As in Job 29, the Lord watched over me very closely, and He instantly spoke to me and my deep thoughts and even slightest sighs, and because His Word shone upon me like a Lamp /light, I overcame the darkness of grief.
Job 29:3 "When His lamp shone above and upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness."
Step by step, the Lord literally held my hand and brought me out, and caused me to Rise Above those challenging times.
Lord's Word of Upliftment, His closeness to me than ever before, His Strength I derived from just being in His presence, brought me out of that apparently hopeless situation, what I thought was a failure, and to where I was able to be used more than before in my locality, to my neighbours, and other community members as a source of strength and inspiration.
So, do not ever Give Up. Rise Above. God Bless You All More.
Written By: Shanta S. Daniel
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