Faith Filled Family Magazine September 2016 | Page 79

makes us suffer for no reason,
and he will use everything for
good. No tear is ever wasted.
This is not always easy to see,
especially if you are in the midst
of it. I can look back at so many
situations it’s hard to count that
I can now see clearly what God
was doing and how he is using
it now to help others and glorify
himself.

Our family went through a
mental health crisis not long
ago. It got very scary and dark,
sometimes hopeless and hard to
see God in it. But God is good.
As we sought God in that time,
as we laid down our problems
to him he took them and fixed
them. Now what we have been
called to do by God is share our
story to help others that could be
battling the same problems and
lead them to Christ to help them
through it. Even though it was a
difficult situation for us, what we
get to do with that story now is
beautiful. That is how God can
work if you let him have the control over every situation in your
life, no matter how ugly it is.

there. The more you believe
that your past disqualifies you
from God’s work, the stronger
his chains become holding you
down. Don’t let him win; don’t
let him have strongholds on you
and lie’s in your head. I encourage you to cry out to Christ to
help you battle through escaping those chains and open your
heart to what he wants to do
with it. God never allows things
Let’s go back to our list from
to happen by mistake, but that
the bible. The list of the terrible
does not mean bad things won’t
pasts these people had and see
happen or that we won’t make
what greatness God made out of
the wrong choices.
Always
the mess they were in.
remember that God is with you
and knows every intricate detail
Noah drank → Noah built an Ark
of your past, and loves you
and saved mankind
unconditionally regardless of it,
will always forgive you and will
Moses was a murderer → Moses Sometimes what God asks us honor you when you seek after
led the Israelites out of slavery
to do can be scary - for us per- him. Don’t let another day go by
sonally, it was to speak publicly where you are being held down,
Samson had long hair and was a about the mental illness strug- instead be set free and join in the
womanizer
gles we had and have in our dream God has for your live and
family.
how your past needed to happen
Rahab was a prostitute →
that way.
Became a hero
Joshua 1:9 says: Have I not
commanded you? Be strong and My name is Danielle Foisy, I am
David was an adulterer and a courageous. Do not be fright- a wife, mom and blogger who
murderer → Became a Man after ened, and do not be dismayed, loves Christ and following after
God’s Heart
for the Lord your God is with this plans for me. I write a blog
you wherever you go. After I at
www.thestruggleisreal.com
Elijah was suicidal → Did amaz- read that, it was clear that there which focuses on Marriage, Paring things prophesying in the was a bigger picture. It wasn’t enting and Faith.
Lord’s name
about my little family’s problems
with mental illness; it was about
Jonah ran from God → Saved a showing God’s power in being
city
able to work even in mental illness. So if God is asking to use
Peter denied Christ → Peter your past, let him and you will be
spread the gospel all over the amazed at how big the picture
world
really is.
Imagine these people allowed
their past to define them? Imagine they let it take over who they
were? These amazing things
would not have been able to
happen.

I want to end of with some
encouragement. If you are being
held back by anything that has
happened in your past, understand something very clearly:
The enemy wants to keep you