WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?

​WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?...... HIS PURPOSE HAPPENED TO YOU!
 
When one is sexually abused one of the questions asked is, “Why did this happen to me?” Another question asked by some is, “why didn’t you say anything?
At the age of eleven, my “inappropriate touching” situation happened when I went into the room where my step-father lay down. He had been a long-time childhood friend of the family. Hyped up from a long day at school I ran in from the bus into the room and began to jump on the bed. Then he grabbed me and with no second thought about it, he took advantage of my love and trust.
Psalm 62:7-8
IN GOD IS MY SALVATION AND MY GLORY: THE ROCK OF MY STRENGTH, AND MY REFUGE, IS IN GOD.
TRUST IN HIM AT ALL TIMES; YE PEOPLE, POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE HIM: GOD IS A REFUGE FOR US.
During the time of these occurrences I had recently given my life to Christ and asked my parents permission to be baptized. At that time, I didn’t understand about spiritual warfare. I belonged to Christ and before he formed me in the womb, He knew me and predestined me for such a life in the midst of warfare.
From the beginning the Lord blessed me with the gift of love and the ability to pour it abundantly. I had no respect of persons. Though I saw faults in folks I still managed to search out the good. The Lord showed me since then that we can overcome evil with good.
While I was going through the trials and tests that the Lord had for me, I allowed the circumstance to devastate me. I didn’t communicate with anyone. I didn’t pray about the situation. I leaned toward my own understanding. I blamed myself and analyzed the situation and came up with my own plan of action.
The Lord wants you to trust in him completely. He wanted me to call on His name at the first sign of trouble. We overcome by leaning and depending on Christ. Oftentimes, we suffer longer because we don’t call on Him or make Him our refuge. Yet He still allowed it for His glory.
Ephesians 6:11
PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL.
FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
The thing is that everything is spiritual. Most of what we see or have seen are spiritual things which have manifested in the natural realm in some shape, fashion, or form.
Behind the molestation and rape were spirits of perversion, manipulation, and control. It wasn’t a natural fight. The enemy wanted to eliminate me long before I knew that I belonged to Jesus and wanted Him for life.
Under normal circumstances when dealing with abuse the enemy wants you to look at yourself. This is because he is all about vanity!  We ask ourselves questions like, “what’s wrong with me?” or “Did I do something to cause this?” The enemy puts you into a position to look at yourself instead of the righteousness of Christ that created you. In these situations, the Lord doesn’t want us to look at ourselves, He wants us to seek after His Spirit. He wants to be our refuge. Christ wants us to know our purpose, though the enemy wants us to self-destruct. If we don’t call on the name of Jesus for understanding then the enemy comes in attempting to get us to entertain self-hatred.
Jesus created us and has reminded us through the Word of God which stated that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. He stated also that we are a Royal Priesthood. The enemy knows this as well and he wants to sift us like wheat, just because we belong to Christ and have a place in Heaven with Him so long as we believe. Really think for a minute what it means to be royalty. Just knowing this fuels the enemy’s hatred to eliminate us off the face of the earth.
I Peter 2:9
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE; THAT YE SHALL SHEW FORTH THE PRAISE OF HIM WHO CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO THE MARVELLOUS LIGHT.
Knowing this we must look to the hills from which cometh our help and seek the face of the true and living God. Jesus came so that we could have life and have it more abundantly. If we look at ourselves we will always see things lacking because there is none righteous. However, Jesus is our righteousness. He is our helper. He is our keeper. He is our comforter. He is our refuge and savior. He wants us to be completely saturated in Him.
Rom 3:10
As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.
In the midst of the situations and circumstances, to the believer, Christ can turn a situation that was meant for our destruction and make it for the glory of God.
Rom 8:28
AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD, TO THEM WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
Through every test, trial, circumstance, and situation there is revelation to His people. We must surrender to the will and purpose of Christ. Trust the Lord with your whole heart and lean not toward your own understanding of things. Christ has felt your pain and has bore your infirmities and has provided a way to overcome by the blood of the lamb.
KEEP POURING PURE LOVING TOWARD OTHERS AND KEEP TRUSTING IN CHRIST!

• A GOD CHASER