It's over now. I feel like i can make it. The storm is over now.
No more cloudy days. They're all gone, gone away.
I feel like i can make it. The storm is over now
If i walk alone. I'm not on my own. I feel like i can make it. The storm is over now
No more cloudy day. The storm is over now. No more crying at night. The storm is over now.
No more sickness in my body. The storm is over now.
No more tears and sorrow. No more heartache and pain. No more suffering.
No more. It's over now.
- The storm is Over Now (Kirk Franklin)
I've known that Kirk Franklin song for YEARS. I mean, I think it was one of the first songs that I held onto to help me get through my teen pregnancy, school and the other mess that was going on. It helped me realize that the storm has to end sometime. There is never a storm that goes on forever and ever. It may last for a while. It may even wreak havoc and create a season of clean up and restoration. But it still can't last forever.
So as I've held onto that, it has been my closing statement for a lot of my trials and tribulations. But as I am walking into a new season and faith in my life, I have come to realize something else. Something more profound and insightful. I thank God for His wisdom because now I can share it with you.
Over the past couple years, I have really been working on renewing my mind, controlling my emotions and getting my will under the obedience of God and I have been feeling like I'm on the home stretch. Of course, I still have work to do. We ALL do because we were not born without sin so we don't live without sin BUT we can live in the fullness of His grace for the sin and sins that we may commit.
What am I saying? I'm saying that I understand now, in a moment of clarity as I blasted this song through my house, that the storm was never external. It was never my pregnancy, it was never my struggle through school, it was never my financial situation and it was never my relationships. The storm was in me.
Read the song over again and really 'take in' what I just said. As I listened to it this morning, my eyes opened wide when I felt His peace wash over me. Like I had just been released from the torrential rains, destructive winds and unpredictable earthquakes (some high, some low on the Richter scale) inside of me. The storm has always been IN me.
The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. And EVERYTHING he wants is IN you. If he can steal your joy and peace, he can have health. If he can kill your trust, he can have you marriage. If he can destroy your finances, he can have your security. He doesn't want or need ANY of your external stuff... he wants what's IN you to reflect on what's outside of you.
The storm has never been on the outside. Everything I have been writing about in the past few months has brought me to this revelation. The storm is not around you, it is IN you. And because you have dominion over your mind, body and soul... COMMAND IT TO STOP. Tell yourself 'enough is enough'. I'm taking back my finances, I'm taking back my peace, I'm taking back my marriage, I'm taking back my health, I'm taking back my joy, I'm taking back my mind, I'm taking back God's Will for my life, I'm taking it ALL back. THE STORM IS OVER NOW.
Ask God to help you RECOVER all that has been stolen. Ask God to REVIVE all that has 'died' in you. Ask God to RESTORE all that has been destroyed. He can do it. He just needs YOU to agree with Him, have faith and believe that it will come to pass. Don't let the devil convince you that it's hopeless. Don't let the devil make you believe that it's irreversible. Don't let the devil convince you that all is lost. Because if you believe him, your storm will NEVER be over. He'll just keep tearing you up, inside and out.
Envision the devil as a tornado, destroying everything in it's path... your potential, your dreams, your children, your finances, your peace, your joy, your health, your future. Now envision yourself, brave as ever, knees shaking and everything, standing in his path with your hand up saying "STOP! THIS STORM IS OVER NOW!!!" Now watch the tornado spin around you, not touching you, over and over and again, trying to scare you, DON'T YOU MOVE, keep that hand up, close your eyes if you have to. Stand strong. Lean on His Word. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. You're more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. He died so that you might have life and have it more abundantly... SAY IT... DECLARE IT... DON'T MOVE... he's losing power, he's coming around again, but he's losing power. Here he comes again, he's trying to regain a hold on you, don't move. Your child is cussing you out. Don't move. Bills are coming in. Don't move. Money is TIGHT. Don't move. You feel alone. Don't move. Why did he cheat on me? Don't move. You feel sick. Don't move. You feel out of control. Don't move. You're scared. Don't move, STAND STRONG. Stretch your arms high and wide, look UP to your Deliverer and DON'T MOVE!!!!
Now watch as he goes away, unable to move you, defeated, nothing but a faint breeze in your life now because the Word, which was made flesh [Jesus Christ], is in YOU.
Believe it! Receive it! Declare it! THE STORM IS OVER NOW.
Be Blessed in RECOVERING, REVIVING AND RESTORING ALL THAT YOU THOUGHT WAS LOST IN YOU
The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness. - John 10:10 GNT
God is Love. Love is Life. Life is in The Word.
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