Immanuel’s Soldiers
Hope for the Weary
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After my long night in a peaceful sleep, I awakened on the floor with a knife pointing toward me ready to cut my wrist and set into a bath water to bleed my life away. I peeled my cheek off the kitchen linoleum floor. My eyes were swollen from crying tears for hours drowning in my own misery and self-pity. I got up and slowly walked to my bedroom. My body was stiff from my overnight sleep on the floor. I laid down on my mattress and fell asleep once again for a few more hours.
Now that I look back on that evening to the early morning hours, I believe the Lord set an angel to knock me out cold on the floor. I believe Jesus showed up in my apartment and saw I was in need. He came to set me free from pain, rejection, depression, hopelessness and suicide. It was spring time and I had just arrived in January to start my graduate coursework. I was embarking on the next phase of my engineering career and future. I was broken on the inside even though my world on the outside looked bright. Little did I know that Jesus had other plans for me.
After waking up from my second nap, I drained the water from my bathtub, showered and examined my swollen face in the mirror. I looked horrible as if I lost a fist fight but felt a sense of relief and no desire to end my life. No matter how I looked, I would say that the fight was won in my favor. I had a sense of a new day was upon me and everything was going to be all right. Have you ever had a sense that everything is going to be all right? If you haven’t stay tuned, I would like to share Jesus with you. He will make it all right. He is the Way, Truth and the Life (John 14:6 AMP).
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In the wave of oppression from the economy many are losing homes, jobs, savings and 401K’s. Marriages and children are being attacked. Pastor burnout increases monthly, as they continue to leave their calling. When we are repeatedly hit from all sides from the enemy (Satan) we grow tired and weary. We ask where is God in all of this? We tend to lose faith. The faith we used to draw upon becomes superficial. The urgency to just survive this whole financial downturn allows us to depend on ourselves and not on the Lord.
Immanuel’s Soldiers Hope for the Weary is refreshment in the hope in Christ. The Bible is full of ordinary people similar to us in crisis. The Lord did not promise life would be a bed of roses, but He did promise no matter how bad things get that He will show up and deliver. We just have to willingly yield, believe and trust Him. If you have come to a point in your life where enough is enough; you just can’t take the oppression merry-go-round you are on anymore, then get off of it and take Jesus’ hand. His loving arms will surround you and never let you go.
Dr. Fox walks you through several people and their crisis in the Word of God. She challenges you to re-evaluate your faith and trust in the Lord during your crisis. She draws upon her years of experience in street ministry in encountering the unchurched, and backslidden Christians in their loss of hope.
About the Author
Dr. N. L. Fox has been saved for over three decades. She ministers the Word of God to the ekklesia challenging God’s children to overcome their struggles and to go deeper in their walk with the Lord. She ministered to children and teens before working in outreach ministry, pastored teams that led thousands to Christ, and was ordained as an evangelist in 2013. She earned a Master of Divinity, a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Ministry, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary. Dr. Fox is CEO and Publisher of Ekklesia Rising Magazine (Ekklesia Rising Publications LLC).