The Sun is Shining!

So many people are sick now – maybe you – or your loved one. I was quite ill with a virus a few years ago around this time of year. We were just arriving in Florida for the winter. . .

The sun was shining. I saw it intermittently as we headed south from Michigan and more so as we neared the Florida line.

It was shining brightly when we stopped at the Florida Welcome Center just a few days before Christmas.

But I wasn’t feeling well, and as the symptoms worsened, and days of illness turned into weeks of illness, the sunshine seemed to be in a different world – not in mine. I missed it. I wanted it.

Has this happened to you? Perhaps it isn’t sickness. It might be defeat, a loss, or discouragement. Your plans are suddenly darkened. Your hopes and dreams are lost in the gloom. You have to fight to see the sunshine again.

It’s hard to fight when you’re weak, isn’t it? In that weakness – that lack of light, the enemy, thriving in the darkness, just seems to flourish. He fills your mind with fears and gloom. He zaps you until you wonder if you have any fight left in you.

It’s in those times that we must turn that fight over to our defender, our leader, our Lord. We have to let ourselves dwell in that secret place – that shelter of the Most High. We need to rest in the Almighty’s shadow, let Him be our refuge.

As I strove to have faith in His promises of healing, I knew I needed to “hear” the Word. So I listened. Night after night, I went to sleep listening to Healing Scriptures from the Word of God. During the day, I heard the Word as I listened to music or messages and spoke it aloud in prayer as I read from my Bible. There is no greater prayer than God’s Word. He wrote it. We can speak it back to Him.

Through those days – those weeks – a passage of the Word “stood out” to me. I heard it over and over: “Put on my armor, Kathi.”

I meditated upon those pieces of armor:

The Belt of Truth

The Breastplate of Righteousness

Feet Fitted with Readiness for Peace

The Shield of Faith

The Helmet of Salvation

The Sword of the Spirit

Prayer in the Spirit

I needed to put on the armor. I was reminded that I have a leader. He goes before me. He goes behind me. He hems me in. I’m just a soldier in this battle. The battle is His, and I am so glad. He is fighting for me.

The battle went on for quite some time. Long weeks. Several doctor visits. But one day, I discovered something amazing here in Florida:

the sun was shining!

Don’t give up the battle, friend. Strengthen yourself with the Word. Let Him fight the battle for you. Soon you’ll see:

the sun is shining!

Click here to listen to hear the healing Scriptures I absorbed.

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