A Knock at the Door
Last week I was sick. I mean really sick. My throat hurt, my body ached, and I had a dangerously high temperature of 103 most of the time. I missed four days of work, which was a first for me in 12 years.
By the time I dragged myself to the doctor's office, I was miserable. She gave me a prescription for antibiotics but said it would take 24 hours for the medicine to kick in and make me feel better. I thought to myself: This is going to be the longest night of my life.
But later that evening, there was a knock at the door. "Valerie, we've come to spend the night with you."
I'm an adult, but my parents love me immeasurably and they continue to prove it to me with actions. My mother prayed for me, and my dad got busy trying to get my fever to go away. He put cold alcohol compresses on my forehead all during the night, and my temperature dropped to 98 degrees. Praise God! I thought.
Isn't that like God? He knows when we are sick, hurting or in need of a financial blessing and responds to us. And even though we don't always ask for His help (I didn’t call my parents and ask them to stay over and nurse me back to health), He helps us because He loves us.
Psalm 46:1 says, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (NKJV). The Bible also says that He'll never leave us nor forsake us, that the Son of righteousness will arise with healing in His wings, and He sent His word to heal them. The Bible is replete with Scriptures about God's love and commitment to us.
No matter what's going on in your life. God is always present. So if you need healing, joy, favor, wisdom—anything—trust Him for it. It is His good pleasure to help His children.
By the time I dragged myself to the doctor's office, I was miserable. She gave me a prescription for antibiotics but said it would take 24 hours for the medicine to kick in and make me feel better. I thought to myself: This is going to be the longest night of my life.
But later that evening, there was a knock at the door. "Valerie, we've come to spend the night with you."
I'm an adult, but my parents love me immeasurably and they continue to prove it to me with actions. My mother prayed for me, and my dad got busy trying to get my fever to go away. He put cold alcohol compresses on my forehead all during the night, and my temperature dropped to 98 degrees. Praise God! I thought.
Isn't that like God? He knows when we are sick, hurting or in need of a financial blessing and responds to us. And even though we don't always ask for His help (I didn’t call my parents and ask them to stay over and nurse me back to health), He helps us because He loves us.
Psalm 46:1 says, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (NKJV). The Bible also says that He'll never leave us nor forsake us, that the Son of righteousness will arise with healing in His wings, and He sent His word to heal them. The Bible is replete with Scriptures about God's love and commitment to us.
No matter what's going on in your life. God is always present. So if you need healing, joy, favor, wisdom—anything—trust Him for it. It is His good pleasure to help His children.
posted by Valerie G. Lowe at
5:29 AM
13 Comments:
I want to use this opportunity to thank you for your column on this website, even if i don't read an important email, the moment i receive this news letter, i go straight to your column. It inspires me and i love to read it, may the Lord continue to stregnthen and keep you for the edification of others. God bless you
Hello Valerie, I thank God for your message today, it really was an inspiration for me today. Despite my circumstance today this message really comes to me in time and just to know that "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (NKJV). and just to know that God loves and is commitment to us. Thanks Glinda.
Thanks Valerie, we live in such desperate times that we need to be reminded that God is in control of everything, and He cares about the smallest details of our lives. How great that your parents just "showed up." Peggy
Dear Valarie,
I subscribe to this newsletter and sometimes do not read a the articles. Thank you for this article today,may the Lord God Almighty continue to use you to bless people, like I have been blessed this night. Akanele
Hi Valerie,
Candidly, this is the first time I am posting my comment in the net. I really enjoyed reading your sharing. Mostly people take the little things in life for granted. Thank God that He send your parents to you when you are so sick. Being a mom, I would really wanted to be there for my children when they needed me... thank you for appreciating. Janette
Hi
I've been reading your column fo a year since I became a christian and it moves me everytime.
God Bless You
When I was a little girl, there was a picture that hung in my bedroom of Jesus "standing at the door and knocking." The thoughts that used to run through my mind as a wondering child ...As a young adult my hearing grew faint...As an adult I've wondered why the politeness...'You' know I always need 'You!' This column reminds me Jesus never leaves. He persists on loving us (and our loved ones) the way we most need to be loved.
Thank you for reminding me that in the simplicity of God's expression of love for us, there is so much power to trust HIm for today...which is all we have. This is such a timely reminder to look for God in the small things which always yield the greatest impact for us to grow up in Him.
be you and your minstry!
Thank you for sharing. I really needed the reminder that God is my refuge and in Him I can rest.
Prophetess Valencia Luckett
Houston,TX
Indeed God has awesome ways of showing that he's ever present always.He showed it again today by giving you this message to share. Thanks, and again i say thanks.
Thank you for your article, although I do not see my parents stopping their busy schedule to come unless it was dire, but it reminds me that we are to help one another. I am a nurse by profession and I tend to nurse people at home, but loved ones do not take advice as much as strangers do, so I tend to be sterner and more direct to family. Sometimes we overlook the the needs of others and think that they may have a person in their life to fulfill that caring roll, but they may not. A gift basket with some soup and 2-3 hours of babysitting for some deep rest will help a sick mom tremendously. She may still be expected to get up and cook supper for her husband later that day. God Bless!
I want to say thank you for your message, even though I am a new reader of your column, I am so impressed. You will move from glory to glory in Jesus' Name.
Past. Mary Ekundayo
Please pray for me. I'm in deep financial distress. I see no way out of the situation I am in. Only God can help us now. We're facing foreclosure, have two sons in college, and work ourselves sick. We've been praying for a breakthrough but are hanging on by a thread and it's fraying fast....
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