You Can Overcome!

 A lot of ya'll might not know this but I've struggled with OCD a lot. And I know some of you may be like "Big Deal" but it is a big deal but not too big For my God!

I don't think people people should treat OCD so lightly because it can be really, really, really tormenting!

OCD made so many things difficult for me, like reading. Reading can be hard, like your concerned your not getting it or you are afraid your not concentrating so you read the same thing over and over!

But through God I am overcoming and have come a long way! Praise His Name!!! Glory to God!! Hallelujah!!!

My particular testimony tonight has to do with school! School was hard manly becasue of the reading! But God has been working with me in reading I can read pretty normal now! 

Today I started back school and God just showed up!! Praise Him!! It was so much easier to read and I was able to read more! Before I read so little because of how difficult it was! But GOD had delivered and He will continue to because He is Great and Mighty no power of OCD can overcome the Power of my God!!

So if your struggling with OCD or any bondage, GOD IS GREATER!!! And you tell the devil that. You speak to those lies and cover them in God's truths. You tell the devil, "Your lies is this...." and say "but God's wonderful, amazing truth is.... and that He is Truth and Life and through Him I am an overcomer!"You quote scriptures at him like 2 Cor. 10:5, Gal. 5:1, 2 Tim. 1:7, Psalm 139:1-6 KJV! You can overcome because God has given you the power! Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19. KJV

 Jesus took all the pain and torment you could ever feel and nailed it to the cross and through His sacrifice you can be free!!!

 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Colossians 2:14.... All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6 KJV. Choose to accept His Sacrifice! Accept the Freedom found only in Christ!

Rebuke the devil and stand against Him, telling him to take HIS OCD and keep it. Stand against him by the power of the Holy Ghost! Claim your right as a Child of God.The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Romans 8:16-17 .And as a Child of God, the devil doesn't have one right to touch you!

So today I stand free, because of my God! And It's amazing!!! Glory to His Name!!!

 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians. 5:1 KJV

JOY:

Joy. I really think that joy is something God has been trying to teach me lately. I would read about joy in the Bible and now I'm reading about being happy in a Christian book. And it's something I really need to work 

on. 

The Bible says in Nehemiah 8:10 KJV, ...for the joy of the Lord is your strength...Even if everything around us is unpleasant and out of order we have the Lord living in us and He is our strength! Hallelujah!

I've recently started reading Sadie Robertson's book "Live Original"-which by the way is really great and such a blessing and encouragement. And I'm only in the first chapter.😊😊😊-and in the chapter entitled "Think Happy, Be Happy", she talks about, of course, being happy.😉😉😊😊 She talks about choosing happiness and about thinking happy things. And how what you think will become your actions.

So my friends, this is my challenge for us all today. Let's choose Joy. Yes, things are going to go wrong. Yes, things are going to get us upset. But let's call the devils bluff and choose to be joyful.

You may have a certain thing that you have to do that makes you get stressed and very snappy. For instance, when I clean and do a lot of chores I have the tendency to get stressed out, snappy, and very-very-very-overwhelmed. But instead of me being so grumpy about all these chores, I can be grateful I have the ability to do them. Lot's of people have handicaps and can't do chores, I'm a perfectly healthy teenage girl-Praise God-and am PERFECTLY able to do these chores. Maybe you have a similar something in your life that makes you get frustrated and all upset. You could choose to be joyful and look on the bright side of it!

And something else Sadie says, and a lot of people, is that stuff and people won't fulfill us or make us happy. Only Jesus can.

So let's choose to rest in the Joy of Jesus! And that's TRUE Joy!

We have a Savior living on the inside of us!! A Savior who loves us and died for us! A Savior that's always there for us and will help us get through anything! A Savior that Gives us true peace!  We have a God that created the whole universe yet loves us and calls us His Children! And all that is something to be joyful about even when there's a whirlwind in our lives. 

And if you don't have Jesus as your Savior, ask Him into your heart! Accept Him as your Lord and Savior! Knowing He loves YOU so very much and died for YOU! God sent His only Son, Jesus, to die for YOU so YOU could be forgiven and live a rich and abundant life in Jesus Christ! He loves YOU and wants YOU! 

Wow ya'll!! We do have so much to be joyful about! So let's choose joy! Let's strive in every situation to be joyful.

Remember: "The joy of the Lord is your strength" and that my friend, is Amazing!!

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalm 28:7 KJV