Help Needed.......

Why don't we ask for help? I was raised by my mom, the oldest of 4 kids. My fiercely independent streak started at a young age. Mom was a single mom most of the years while I was growing up. This caused me to step and into a "doer" at a very young age. "A fixer"  I never really asked for help. I just stepped into to do and get it done. So... what caused me to forget how to ask for help? To say come along side me- I need someone. I suppose my moms busyness of raising us and doing the very best she could at the time. She was always busy-running our house so I just never asked. I just did what needed to be done or handled it by myself. When I left one week after graduation to find who I was I took this with me into adulthood and learned to handle it all myself.

When I came back to the Lord over 20 years ago. I learned about God who was my help and ever present for everything I needed for life. He is and was the only source for me.  Healing, restoration, redemption, restoring. He is and was all. I grabbed hold of his word, truth, stood strong and fast. In the hours of need ahead I asked for help from him and he gave it. Then a storm came like I had never walked thru. I knew he was my refuge and strength. So I climbed into the cleft and hung on for dear life. I hid myself in him, but lost an important part while I hid. Nurturing me in the storm. Allowing others to help. We need each other and help at times. There are times when we need to come alongside and lift up the arms, provide the physical need in front of us. Stand, believe, support.  Sometimes we need a doctor to help us to get our head around what is happening if we neglect us. I hid in him and neglected me in my storm,  while waiting on God to move, to help and show up as I needed him.

Psalm 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. 

 

Hebrews 14:14-16 -The message: The High Priest Who Cried Out in Pain:

Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let's not let it slip through our fingers. We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help. 

 

 He is of course is ever present with us in everything. Sometimes there us another voice in us,  we need to find in the storm. The one that says" Help Needed Here"  We are 3 parts and all three parts are a part of the big picture. Our physical bodies are a part too. When the shaking comes he is in the midst of us. Very often right in front of us are others who can stand in the natural to help us. If we will just say and ask. "Help Needed Here" There is mercy and help in the storm or time of need. Let's ask him and the others he puts around us "HELP NEEDED HERE" In the help needed hour, there is restoration, redemption, and "real support" if we ask.