Are you focused on your problem or on God? Do you want to get rid of your stress and all the weight that you’re carrying? We weren’t meant to carry the burden on our own.
I was driving to work this morning and a song came on. Have you ever felt like God was speaking directly to you from a song or something else? Well, the song that came on was one that really encouraged me several years ago.
I felt like I was at my wit’s end and felt like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. Then this song comes on and guess what the first words were? “I know you’re feeling weighted down, it’s all on your shoulders.” The song was “Remain” by Royal Tailor.
So naturally, I listened and heard an affirming word I know was from God. “But I’m gonna make you stronger, hold on just a little bit longer.” I thought ‘wow, how does God know exactly what I’m feeling and know exactly what to say to make me feel better at this moment in time using this music’?
I had tears streaming down my face and at that moment I knew it was going to be okay. I knew God was going to give me the strength to get through what I was going through at the time.
How To Focus On God?
Sometimes we forget what all God has brought us through. We forget that we don’t have to carry all the weight on our shoulders. All the stress, anxiety, and fear. We forget that God is with us and can turn anything around for our good.
I’m going through another difficult thing and this morning it was like God said, ‘remember I was there with you then to help you through and I will do it again’. I just want to encourage you wherever you are in your life right now of the same thing.
God hasn’t forgotten what you’re going through. He isn’t ignoring the pain you are feeling. He will help you through it. All you have to do is focus on Him instead of your problem.
Trust me, I know how difficult it is to “focus on Him”. Maybe you don’t know what that means. It means that you trust God and you focus on the fact that He has things under control. He WILL give you the peace, the strength, the wisdom, and the provision that you desperately need.
All we have to do is ask and He will be faithful to provide. I heard God lay a question on my heart in my car ride home just a moment ago. “Are you focused on your problem or on God?Click To Tweet
It’s so cool how God speaks through things. Have you ever experienced that before? If so, please share so we can all be encouraged by your story.
Before you go, check out another song below that I heard today on the radio.
“‘Cause even in the madness
There is peace
Drowning out the voices all around me
Through all of this chaos
You are writing a symphony
a symphony”
“Symphony” by Switch
Stay hopeful!
6 Comments
Such a great post!! I was going through a really difficult time a while back and Breathe by Johnny Diaz came on the radio. I had to pull over because I couldn’t see through the tears! I knew God was talking to me through that song. I felt such a peace after that. I will never forget that feeling. 🙂
Wow, thank you for sharing that with us! Love your story! It’s awesome how God cares enough to speak to us using music and other things! God is so good and we are never alone! His peace is unexplainable.
Absolutely loved this post! I really needed this to refocus! Thank you!
I’m glad it spoke to you too! Thanks for commenting! I definitely needed to hear it myself! 😁
God will go out of his way to speak to us when we are facing life’s challenges. Sometimes he says be still and we cannot find it within our selves to do so. That is when he interrupts our pitty party, our worries, our insecurities, our distress, just to remind us that he alone is God. He will always speak a word to turn our focus around back to him! Thank you this was a very encouraging post!
Yes I’m so thankful that the Creator of the universe cares for us enough to do that! Thank you for your remarks on this and I’m glad the post was encouraging to you as well!