WHEN HE HOLDS YOUR HAND

Some years ago, my grandfather in the faith came to preach in the city where I was serving. It was a church with quite a heavy protocol. During the meeting, he asked us to walk around and greet people. I made sure to walk to the minister who followed him on that trip. He was surprised to see me and told me to walk back to him after the meeting. 

Just as the meeting was ending and Baba was about to move, I walked up to the minister. He called Baba’s attention and said that I was around. When Baba spotted me, he beckoned me to come. He held my hands. All protocol was suspended. He walked right with me through all the doors. I walked into places where I would not have entered. I walked past people who normally would have questioned me. As long as I walked with him and his hand held mine, doors flung open. It was not about me; it was about who I was walking with. 

There is a songwriter who said, “When you hold my hands, everything is possible.” True. The hand of the Lord is the hand of help. 

Psalms 119:173 NKJV

[173] Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.

No matter what happens, protect your walk with God. Any door that you enter after you let go of the Hand of the Lord and sacrifice your walk with God is nothing but a slaughterhouse. 

The struggle becomes real for anyone who does not know and protects this very simple practice- protect your walk with God. 

Remember Peter, as long as the Angel (symbolic of divine presence) walked with him, chains fell off, prison doors opened, and the city gate opened by itself. Why? He was walking with someone with no barrier to hinder him.  

When you struggle with anything and anywhere, pause and check whose hands I am holding. Who am I walking with? 

I see many try to hold on to things that will falter and fail. No! Jesus Christ is the one who is the same yesterday, today and forever. Only God remains the same and does not change. 

Are you holding on to who will never change? Or have you been deceived? Do not abandon the rock of ages to walk on sinking sand.