I've been there … 2

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Jun 30

Continued from https://pdlionunlimited.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/ive-been-there-1/

PD: As your brother, I encourage you to not give up, to embrace the difficult time as part of your journey, to see your waiting period as opportunity to look within to bring out your better self.
Stop looking at what is happening to you, start looking at what is happening in you so that you can improve on what is happening through you.
Happiness (and unhappiness) is an event, joy is a state of being. Do not throw away your being because of an event.
And I will tell you this, you might be unhappy, disappointed, disillusioned, and hurt. But you are not depressed.

Q: Amen. I am not depressed.

PD: Depression has become a popular term nowadays because pain is currency. The more pain you can show yourself to be in, the more sympathy you will get. But the truth is sympathy does not solve our problems.

Depression is something you should not use your own mouth to call upon yourself. Don't even go there.

Isa 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
There is a well of greatness and testimony in you. Joy is the rope and bucket you will use to draw it out. You cannot afford to lose your joy.
Focus on how you will rejoice when your testimonies start to roll in, because for sure they will roll in.

Q: Ok sir, I'm much better now.

PD: Jesus doesn't fail ... we are the ones who stop waiting.

Q: Sometimes, this is hard to believe. But I know.

PD: And ... it was good you brought your pain to the house of faith ... that is what the house of faith is there for.
Faith is a journey, God knows that we will struggle from time to time. Don't beat yourself up about it. Just keep going, one step at a time.

Q: Yes. But most times, people will laugh at you, mock you for depending on Him. Like at my place of work, am like a subject of mockery.

PD:

What was Goliath doing to David just before the small boy brought him down? ... Mockery. What we're the Jews doing to Jesus just before he became the ransom for their sin? ... Mockery. What did Hagar do to Sarah before Sarah later had Isaac? ... Mockery. What did Peninah do to Hannah before she had Samuel whose name cannot be forgotten? ... Mockery. You need a change of perspective.

There are two reasons I can quickly think of that could explain why mockery will cause you as much pain as you seem to be n right now.

You have been dependent on the praises and commendations of the people around you. Their good words to you should be embraced but should never become your motivation.
You have been mocking others before now ... maybe not openly.
If you notice that you are especially happy when you win, to the extent that you are flaunting your success in the faces of those you beat to get the prize … that is mockery. Mocking them for losing, as though it makes them inferior to you.
Repent of that kind of attitude. When you win, accept your victory with humility knowing that it was God who helped you. Be genuinely happy for the people who are moving up and support them.

I didn't tell you that while we were struggling for 10 years to get into the organization I am working at now, we were helping other people to get information on how to get into the same organization. Like 3 or 4 people I can remember quickly. They heard about our quest and came to me with questions. I gave them links and, for some of them, within a year, they had gotten in. One was even transferred to the UK office. They all left us behind in Katsina.

Should I not have been feeling bad?

Q: Well, I think I understand better.

PD: Good.

God has not abandoned you. Hold your head up. Keep moving forward … even if it is one unremarkable step at time.

Daniel Oyanna is a conference speaker on relationships, health, faith and other subjects and a Pastor and teacher blessed by God with a grace to make things easy to understand. He is the author of the book To Date or Not to Date, Instructions in Submission, Crushing the Crushers, several mini-books most of which are free. He started UnLimited to help people reach their God-given goals by walking with them to their finish line. He is reachable at pd_lionunlimited@yahoo.com

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