A FAITH-FILLED, PROPHETIC WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
February 24, 2025
BY CRYSTAL G.H. LOWERY
Stop Mourning Something That Isn’t True.
Limits. Tears. Depression. Anger. Pulling away. These are just a few of the symptoms of mourning. When I think of mourning, I think of deep, penetrating grief that is so powerful that it clouds over any view of hope for the moment or near future. It’s like trying to see clearly when you are crying and the tears obscure and block what is really there.
Imagine for a minute that someone you love, a family member, is in another room in your house. You are in the house, but you are in a different room and you can’t see the other person, but you just saw them walk into the other room. The room they walked in has no door to the outside. You start to panic and you let fear overcome you and you begin to cry and sob uncontrollably because you begin to believe that they are lost and aren’t coming home. This, obviously, is not true because they are just in the other room. The problem is that you can’t see them, even though they are only a few steps from you on the other side of the wall. They clearly are safe and sound and not lost, never to return.
What if you begin to live your life based on your belief in this lie. You don’t want to eat because you’re sad and depressed. You can’t focus because you’re worried about this person. You’re miserable and don’t interact with other people you love with normalcy because you’re grieving the loss of this person. Days go by. Weeks go by and eventually, a year or more goes by. You’re still grieving and sad, miserable, and unfocused. However, your family member is still living with you in your house, safe and happy and productive. Yet, you are living your life based on something that isn’t true.
This example sounds far-fetched, doesn’t it. Well…the fact is that many people are living their lives, grieving, and mourning (sometimes inwardly instead of it being obvious to the outside world) over something that just isn’t true. The enemy just loves to speak lies to people. It’s what he is good at. That’s actually his job description, according to John 10:10. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He is the father of lies.
That same verse tells us Jesus’ job description. He came so that we can have life and have life more abundantly. We have to be so in tune with what Jesus says about us, which is the truth, that when the enemy speaks lies, we tell him to shut up. We have to rebuke lies and not live our life based on them.
When the enemy tells you that you’re not worth anything, don’t believe it and live years and years based on that lie. You’ll be mourning life instead of having life abundantly. When the enemy tells you that you will always battle sickness. Don’t listen for even a second. Jesus died and took every sickness and every disease so you could live healthy and healed. When the enemy tells you that you’re alone and no one cares, that isn’t true. Jesus will never leave you or forsake you. He’s always with you. He would have died for just you…that’s how much He loves you.
Choose to live based on the truth instead of basing your life on lies. Living based on the truth of God’s word will set you free.
I was thinking about Jacob after Joseph had been sold into slavery. Can you just picture Jacob at home and 11 of his sons come back, all in agreement while holding up a bloody, colorful coat, trying to explain that Joseph has been attacked and killed by a wild animal. Joseph was Jacob’s favorite (which is another discussion about parents having favorite children). Jacob had waited 14 years to marry his mother after her father deceived him into marrying her sister first. Jacob patiently waited for Rachel and worked not 7 years, but 7 more years so he could marry her. Finally, she gave birth to Joseph and eventually to another son, Benjamin.
After all those years of waiting for Rachel and then finally having Joseph in his old age, these intense moments of all the sons talking and excitedly going on and on about his precious and beloved Joseph being slaughtered and torn apart by a wild beast is just too much. Jacob took his sons at their word and grieved deeply for a long time. I’m not really sure if he ever got over it. I think about each of the 11 sons knowing the truth that Joseph was alive and sold into slavery, yet they let their father go on and on in his miserable grief. How could they do this to their father?
Yet, for decades, this was the lie that Jacob lived and mourned. However, the truth is that Joseph was alive and well, being promoted and prospering in Egypt to second in command, just under the Pharoah.
I wonder if Jacob thought of the dreams that Joseph told him about, that one day he and his other sons would bow to Joseph. How could God give Joseph these dreams if God allowed Joseph to be killed? Jacob had his own encounters with God, very supernatural ones in keeping with the promise God made to his grandfather, Abraham. Yet, Jacob believed and lived based on the lie that Joseph was dead.
However, when a severe famine hit all the land, Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to get provisions and there, the past caught up with them. What they thought was living in slavery was living in freedom. It was their brother Joseph. When Joseph commanded that their father come to Egypt, Joseph was about to be confronted with the truth.
In his very old age, Jacob stands face to face with a stranger that reveals himself as his beloved son, Joseph. So… he wasn’t mutilated by a wild beast and dead, but he was the second most powerful man in all of Egypt. What a powerful truth with which to go forward setting aside the lie, dismissing it for what it was, and embracing the truth.
For all those years (around 22), Joseph could have lived based on the truth (he would have needed to ask God for the truth). It seems like such a loss of time, emotional energy, happiness, and vitality. However, I’m glad that the truth was presented to him, even after so long, and he was able to live in abundance, not in lack; in joy, not in grief; and based on truth, not on a lie.
Stop mourning something that isn’t true!
Pursue truth. Know the word of God so well that you can discern a lie. Rebuke it and quash it so that there is only the truth of God’s word where you plant your feet.
Based On Faith.
Crystal G.H. Lowery, Esq is a Christian Estate Planning Attorney and is the owner and founding attorney of Law Office Of Crystal G.H. Lowery, LLC. She is also an ordained minister who has a passion for sharing Jesus. Based on Faith is an organization whose vision is to become an international resource that increases biblical knowledge of faith within the Body of Christ through comprehensive teaching, discussion of law, and the prophetic.
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