GET OUT OF THAT PIT AND EXPERIENCE THE PRESENCE OF GOD

There are things we face as young people or young adults that we are quite about. A lot of us are in these pits some of us are heading there to these pits. When I am talking about pits I am talking about a hole in a ground that is used as a trap to catch Animals and Humans. The devil is using this pits to separate us from the love and presence of God. This pits are Alcohol abuse , drug abuse , sex (before marriage), depression and oppression , peer pressure, Masturbation , condemnation , fear ,Pornography and the list goes on. I know as you reading this ,your heart is being squeezed as I mention this things, you are not alone in what you going through. Its often those things we hide that God wants to heal.

Jeremiah cried to God and said God look at my enemies they have dug a pit for me and hidden traps for me.The devil is a liar you getting out of that pit because no weapon formed against you will prevail. Psychologist say the first step to recovery is acceptance, you God to accept that you are in a condition and you need help.  I need you to say this words "Lord i am in the pit(mention your put) and i need your help " . The word of the Lord says "call unto me in days of your trouble and I will give you rest"

lets look at this amazing story and learn from it:


Luke 15 : 11-12 and 20-22

In short the book of Luke presents Jesus as the rescuer of all who are lost , he came from God to seek and save those who are lost.

The story in Luke 15:11 -The where two sons the older one and the younger one ,and the younger one asked his inheritance from his father, because the father is faithful and just he just gave him his inheritance and the young son went far away from Home, he spend everything in the wild living until a famine took place in that area. His money was finish and he came back to his senses(That is the short version)
Many of us are like this young son : we have departed from the love of God because of our selfish ambitions, he was after the hand of God and not the heart of God , and that reminds me of us, he wasted his life and wealth in wild living(we are busy wasting are lives in pits of sins)

See the devil is not the respecter of man Satan does like you period, he want to see us dead, destroyed and away from the love of the father. The devil want you and i to have guilt and question ourselves on how God is gonna forgive you  and the reason why he(devil) is doing this is because he knows that guilt condemns and conviction transforms you. As we look at verse 20 the bible says the young son came to his senses , conviction started into his mind and transformation took place by taking a step to Go back to his father.
When he left the father he said Give me but now when he comes back to his senses his says make me.(I remember a song by an artist called Tonex  "make me over").See there is nothing to hard for God , he can make you over again get out of that pit come to your senses God has promised life and this life is in abundance.

See the father's reaction towards his son return : the father was waiting, and  when he saw his young son return a Lamb was sacrifice that is a sign of one being redeemed because a lamb was killed,the father was eagerly waiting for his son return that when he saw him he ran to him. God is ready to wash you in the blood of His son, ready to forgive you from all your infirmity .The son was welcomed back into the house he had to be given back what he did not deserve, the robes, the ring and sandals His Grace is looks beyond your sins , Gods Grace is sufficient enough to sustain you, to keep you and to rewrite your life again.

He was now in the presence of God back to the fathers house, see when your back into the presence of God. The devil start to shake or nerves .When you are in the presence there is fullness of Joy, peace, sound mind and life. Psalm 125 "those who trust in the lord are like mount Zion which can never be shaken nor move .Come to your sense, you have been into that Pit for too long its time to confess your sins unto the lord ask for forgiveness, ask Him to make you all over again,the is no sin God can not forgive .He says cast all your burdens unto him because he cares for you.

2 Chronicles 7:14 "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land"

God bless you as you let Go and let him take over!

By Tshepang Jan Manyaka.