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Midlife Crisis
The soldier enlisted on the
battlefield and refuses to fight will become a casualty!
Margaret C.
Mullings
While sitting in
women’s meeting at church everything inside of me felt as if it was burning up
from the chest to the lower extremities, I said to Abba Father,
“I’m going to
scream in here!”
The reply came
back,
“You know Jesus,
call on His name,”
Listen, this was a
midlife crisis for me and so intense it was that I forgot to call upon the name
of Jesus!
Here in the Bahamas
and all across the Globe people are experiencing midlife crisis.
Marriages and
families are falling apart. The murder count is escalating daily,
promiscuity is on the rise and the pimps are taking it to an all-time
low!
The drug dealers
are reinventing the trade in a subtle way. Have the nations forgotten that
Yahweh reigns?
Violence seems to
be over taking our land and the sin of lawlessness is now the order of the
day.
There is also a
strong uprising of movements who are bashing and beating each other down.
Children are being
abused and confused because their fathers have abandoned them and there are
mothers who have left their true calling and have gone after the ways of the
world!
Our leaders have
become too power hungry and have blasphemed the name of God!
There is a foul
spirit spreading rapidly squeezing the prayer life out of Yahweh’s people, it
is a midlife crisis; every abomination is taking place throughout the land!
Wherever you are on
your journey you may actually be walking in the midst of a midlife
crisis.
Your home may be
torn up and you have not even gotten a wink of sleep lately so to speak.
Your relationship
with your spouse and children has become so estranged that you may not remember
the last time you had a tender moment with your son or daughter.
I hear it
resounding; You could be in the middle of a midlife crisis yet it may feel
more like a nightmare which will stop as soon as you awaken from sleep but I
just stopped by to tell you, you are not having a bad dream but you could be
experiencing a midlife crisis!
Could it be that
you are engaged in a spiritual battle and have been ignoring it for quite some
time hoping it would work itself out?
Can I tell
you? The soldier enlisted on the battlefield and refuses to fight will
become a casualty!
There is a clarion
911 call for you (me too) to continue to stand in Christ!
The Word is speaking
from the book of Galatians 5:1
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us
free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
Stop crying and
pulling out your hair, leave off biting off your nails and worrying about your
midlife crisis!
The Word is
speaking again this time from 1 Peter 1:3-7:
”3Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to
a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
”4to an inheritance incorruptible and
undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
”5Who are kept by the power of God
through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
”6In this you greatly rejoice, though
now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
”7that the genuineness of your faith,
being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire,
may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,”
Listen, while I sat
in the women’s meeting on the inside of me there was a battle raging, it felt
like the fire was burning up everything within so much so that momentarily I
became so consumed by the pain and discomfort, all I wanted to do was scream
but my spirit reached out to Abba Father instead.
The Word spoke,
Psalm 14: 4
”Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my
people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?”
For me it was the
menopausal hot flashes which caused me to really forget to call upon Jesus and
almost succumbed to the heat consuming wave!
What about
you? Is what you are walking in feel unbearable?
I hear it resounding, “You could be experiencing a midlife
crisis!”
And just as Abba
Father divinely intervened and reminded me to call on the name of Jesus during
my midlife crisis, I encourage you to call upon the name of Jesus.
Pause for a
moment! Take a deep breath in, now breathe out!
May the breath of
Yahweh transform your entire life with His healing Power to withstand every
midlife crisis you will or may encounter and as you move forward in faith and
obedience.
I hear The Word
ringing like a telephone from Philippians 4:13, will you pick up the
receiver? If you will declare this;
“I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.”
You will make it
victoriously through every Midlife Crisis!
If you do not know
God the way that Margaret does, here is a suggested prayer:
Dear Father, I need you. I acknowledge that I have sinned
against you by directing my own life. I thank you that You have forgiven my
sins through Christ’s death on the cross for me.
I now invite Christ to again take His place on the throne of my
life. Fill me with the Holy Spirit as You commanded me to be filled, and as You
promised in Your Word that You would do if I asked in faith.
I pray this in the name of Jesus. As an expression of my faith,
I thank You for directing my life and for filling me with the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Margaret
C Mullings: A
unique woman with a passion for the presence of God. She also has a passion for
hurting souls. She is anencourager to the body of Christ. A prayer warrior,
song writer and playwrightwith a new found love for the performing Arts.
Margaret is the wife of PastorPaul G Mullings and the mother of four
children, Godfrey, Ene’, Garet, and Nia.Her books include
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