Pray and walk away from the storm.
Life is made up of seasons. Storms can be deadly and can destroy your life. I had a season where I was going through storm after storm after storm. I was going through so much that I just started calling myself a storm trooper. I learned how to live in the storm, survive in the storm, then thrive in the storm. These weren’t just thunderstorms but hurricane and a tsunami. How do you survive the storm? You have to prepare for the storm before the storm hits. How do you do that? You pray. You fast on a regular basis. You praise God even though you are in the eye of the hurricane. It is difficult, yes. You need some praying friends because some times you can’t pray for yourself.
In 2014, when my husband left me during my birthday weekend, I was devastated and he left me for another woman. It hit me hard because I had left my family, my new house with new furniture, and my life in Michigan to go to Las Vegas and start my life over. God had a plan but I didn’t realize it. I had been in a roller coaster ride with my husband and I do not like roller coasters! Not only did he leave me but he dragged me through the mud as he was doing it. Las Vegas is small city and I lived in a smaller city and I felt like he completely humiliated me after I had helped and supported him. I was devastated. While I was dealing with this drama and it was drama, I found out that my mother’s cancer came back and she was having major surgery. It was much worse than I first knew. I was very close to my mother and this was tragic for me. I decided that I would focus on my mother and deal with the divorce drama for later. I felt completely alone because my best friend and husband left me. I literally felt all alone in the desert. But God! God showed me that He would never leave me or forsake me. This season of 2014-2015 was my hurricane and 2017 was my tsunami. I’ll leave that story for another week. The whole year I just kept getting hit with death not just my mother. So many people died in 2015 that I stopped counting. My uncle and God father died in the same weekend separately. It was an awful year and at times I just wanted to lay down and die. The prayers of others got me through. Thank God I have many friends that pray. I could feel them praying! I am a teacher. I still had to go to work. My mother lived in Florida so I was flying back and forth—7 hour flight! I had to pretend like I was ok when I was not ok. You can’t go to work with teenagers and cry every day at work!
I had a prayer and fasting life before this happened so when the storm hit, God sent people to help me. I had so many angels in Florida to help me, extended family, friends, my mother’s friends, and even strangers in Florida helped me. I could see that God was helping me and that people praying for me gave me the strength to go to work and move on. It truly was a miracle that I got through that whole situation.
Even after the storm, you have to continue to pray and fast because there is a lot of cleanup after the storm. You need God to clean up the mess that the storm made. If you can’t pray ask others to pray for you. Read the Word of God, listen to the Word, sing praises, and listen to praise music. Talk to others that can encourage you. You may even need counseling. Storms can be devastating and you have to put your life back together once the storm leaves. This is why you must pray so that you can walk away from a storm. #prayandwalkaway