It Ain’t Over Until God Says It’s Over!
Hello and welcome to Thoughtful Thursday. It’s been a while!
Are you going through anything today? Does it seem like as soon as one crises is over another one piggybacks it and there you are again? But maybe this is a good time for you and you are floating happily on God’s mercies! I hope so but if you are like me with little trials, medium sized tribulations and monumental troubles and you wonder when it will end or how you will make it through, first of all I recommend Jesus. He is the “be all, end all”! But as you go I have three songs I want you to get and listen to!
The first two songs are by my girl that I should have showcased weeks ago. The ever awesome Whitney Houston! She’s back and has two songs that are wonderfully inspiring and motivating. One is clearly talking about God and Him being the one to look to when nothing else works. That song is called: I Look To You. (Surprising written by our own, R. Kelley) The other is a kick in the butt we all need when we are having those “woe is me” valley experiences and it feels like we are all alone. You know when all you want to do is feel sorry for yourself. Listen to: I Didn’t Know My Own Strength! That will get you motivated to stand up straight and come to attention and know you are all that! And the third song is from Maurette Brown Clark and it is called: It Ain’t Over Until God Says It’s Over. I dare you to play this one over and over and over until it settles in your spirit and you truly know, it ain’t over until God says it’s over! My, my, my! It has ministered to my spirit too many times to count! It seems as if the DJ are locked into me and know exactly when to play it for me and straight to me! REGARDLESS of what you are going through – sickness, laid off of work, going through a divorce, children in jail, mind playing tricks on you, whatever – just know; the impossible is God’s chance to work a miracle! It ain’t over until God says it’s over! Keep praying until your victory is won!
Here are the words to these three songs! Be blessed! Holla back!
I Look To You
As I lay me down
Heaven hear me now
After giving it my all
I’m lost without a cause
Winter’s storm has come
And darkened my sun
After all that I’ve been through
Who on earth can I turn to?
I look to you
I look to you
After all my strength is gone
In you I can be strong
I look to you
I look to you
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song, I look to you
About to lose my breath
There’s no more fighting left
Sinking to rise no more
Searching for that open door
And every road that I’ve taken
Led to my regret
And I don’t know if I’m going to make it
Nothing to do but lift my head
I look to you
I look to you
And when my strength is gone
In you I can be strong
I look to you
I look to you
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song, I look to you
My levees are broken, my walls have come
Crumbling down on me
The rain is falling, defeat is calling
I need you to set me free
Take me far away from the battle
I need you, shine on me
I look to you
I look to you
After all my strength is gone
In you I can be strong
I look to you
I look to you
And when melodies are gone
In you I hear a song, I look to you
I look to you
I look to you
I Didn’t Know My Own Strength
Lost touch with my soul
I had no where to turn, I had no where to go
Lost sight of my dream,
Thought it would be the end of me
I thought I’d never make it through
I had no hope to hold on to,
I thought I would break
I didn’t know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled, but I did not crumble
I got through all the pain
I didn’t know my own strength
Survived my darkest hour, my faith kept me alive
I picked myself back up, hold my head up high
I was not built to break
I didn’t know my own strength
Found hope in my heart,
I found the light to life, my way out the dark
Found all that I need, here inside of me
I thought I’d never find my way
I thought I’d never lift that weight
I thought I would break
I didn’t know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled, but I did not crumble
I got through all the pain
I didn’t know my own strength
Survived my darkest hour, my faith kept me alive
I picked myself back up, hold my head up high
I was not built to break
I didn’t know my own strength
There were so many times
I wondered how I’d get through the night
I thought I took all I could take
I didn’t know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled, but I did not crumble
I got through all the pain
I didn’t know my own strength
Survived my darkest hour, my faith kept me alive
I picked myself back up, hold my head up high
I was not built to break
I didn’t know my own strength
It Ain’t Over Until God Says It’s Over
I know the odds are stacked against you
And it seems there’s no way out
I know the issue seems unchangeable
And that there’s no reason to shout
But the impossible is God’s chance
To work a miracle, a miracle
So just know
It ain’t over until God says it’s over
It ain’t over until God says it’s done
It ain’t over until God says it’s over
Keep fighting until your victory is won
He never said it would be easy
But you’re a winner in the end
Jesus defeated all your enemies
Way before the fight began
But the impossible is God’s chance
To work a miracle, a miracle
So just know
When people say you can’t, remember
He can, He can
When you don’t know what to do
Please remember
He has the master plan
He will free you from your sin
And give you peace within
So hold your head up high
You’re gonna win
You’re gonna win
Keep fighting, keep praying, keep fasting
It ain’t over, no (repeat)
Keep fighting until your victory is won
OK sister I shoulda talked to U long ago!!! I love Whitney’s song I look to U and imagine my surprise at the author…WOW!!! She sang the 2nd one on Oprah and I loved it!!! Third song. I’ve had the CD for a long time…bought it 4 another song and discovered this one WAYYYY before they started playing it ALL THE TIME on the radio!!! I used to play it E V E R Y single day on my way to work so I got it settled in my spirit long ago…THEN a few months ago she came to a service at the Civic Center and sang it so I heard it LIVE!!!! I feel blessed and thanks for UR encouragement and these songs!!
Oops..forgot this. U know (or maybe U don’t) I don’t sing in the choir, but for Daddy’s anniversary service I sang for him…Uh huh….the first verse and chorus to …Yep, U guessed right…It ain’t over!!!!! Pray my strength in the Lord saints!
@Karol Ann – (I have to spell it out this time) Roll on the floor laughing!!! We will pray!
Hi babies! I pray that all is well with both of you. It is something to know that when you are feel low, and get to talking about the lord, how it lifts your spirits up. It puts a spring and a bounce in your walk. You go around smiling for no reason. Yesterday Bishop Clifton Jones was with us all day. My health did not allow me to go back to night service but the morning was so good I am still smiling. It seems like I am floating.
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I happened to check here today and I saw this and I was wondering if some one could tell my what you all mean when you says it’s not over until God says it’s over? My divorce was over when I said it was over, what did God have to do with that? Or if I quit my job then it’s over again when I say it’s over.
I htink this is why some people have problems with religions. The logic makes no sense sometimes. Ithnk I know what you are trying to say but I think God, or who ever you call him, gave us a brain, to figure things out on our own and make our own decisions. We do this everyday. Do you all expect me to believe that you ask God can you go to the store, which store, which route to take, what to buy???
I remember someone once telling me that the bible says something about God made us creatures with a free will, so am I right when I say it’s sometimes over when “I say it’s over?”
Hi Charles. I’m glad you checked and I’m glad you commented. Here is what I mean when I say it’s not over until God says it over. Being a believer and having God dwelling within me, as I put God first in my life and in charge of my life, without thought or daily questions to Him, I believe His presence within me is guiding me daily. If I go to a certain store or quit a job or even get a divorce, I believe I will have been led to do so by God. Do you understand what I mean?
To be honest ‘NO!”
That makes no sense at all to me. What you seem to have said is that every decision you make is told to you by God??? What is your brain for?
@Charles Davis Jr – Not told to me by God, I am lead by God and His spirit within me! Just like children are raised and nurtured by their parent; the things the parents have instilled in them go with them regardless of where they are and what they are doing. Certainly all children have done things against the things instilled in them and the upbringing of their parents but…. many things we do in life are done by a subtle or subliminal leading of what was instilled in us by our parent. Having God in you is the same. We are or should be daily lead by His dwelling in us.
Clearer?
WHAT!?? You are saying that God is actually in you telling you what to do? C’mon what are are, some kind of crazy person? That doesn’t even make sense. What does God say, “Turn left here Kathy?” Or maybe he tells you to pick up your fork, scoop up the peas and put them in your mouth?????
I’m not trying to be funny but do you realize how crazy what you said sounds???
I said His spirit in me is leading me! Just like what parents instill in us leads us as we go through life! You don’t get that?
I didn’t mean to be rude previously, but what you said/are saying doesn’t make sense. What your parent put in you does not “lead” you. It might come into play during your decision making process but it doesn’t lead you. Your brain is what leads you.
You parents teach you as well as your environment, preferences and values. If your parents were leading you would not that mean that you would do exactly as they’d do in a situation?
Do you mean that you expect me to believe that you do exactly what God would do in situations? I don’t even find that credible.
Let me say, I do what I think God would be pleased with in situations.
Ok…That I can understand. That is certainly different than your original statement. You seem to be in some kind of stong religious group. I never understood why religious people blame everything bad on the devil. It’s confusing, as was your original statement about be lead by God. If God lead you that would mean that you could never do anything wrong and that if you did do something wrong then that means it was because you decided to stop being lead by God and decided to be lead by the devil, in which case that would me that you are never responsible for anything you did because either God or the Devil did it…
Everyone can benefit/enjoy this excerpt from my book that will be coming out in January:
Because we have been so inclined to make God or Satan fully responsible for the good and evil of the world, we imagine them to be in places that they are not—in sick babies and rosebushes. Satan is busy for sure, as is the Holy Spirit. Both of them have made great sacrifice for it to be possible for us to do what we wish. However, neither of them are doing all the doing that is being done. God is not in every wind or the doer of every good work, though He made them possible. Neither is Satan the executor of all that is evil, though he is the originator of evil works.
The scriptures below emphatically support, though, that it’s not over until God says it’s over.
Ac 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move,
Da 2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
He rules and he super rules. If we follow Him, He will lead us.
My book will be out in late January. Now on to Bob Evans for stuffed pancakes and turkey sausage–maybe.
See that’s what I said too. This makes sense. I’m not sure what kind of religion teaches what Kathy was saying, because I was getting totally confused. No offense, but I think people like me are never going to fit in. Not if this is some of what I have to believe in order to become a memeber of a church.
I think the Bishop did make sense because I could understand what he said. He said we can do as we wish. I believe that God or whoever you call him let’s man do as he pleases. We then have to deal with the consequences.
I’m not religious so maybe you all know something more than I do, but it just seems to me that people are either good or evil and that sometimes good people do bad and bad people do good. I think most people are selfish and tend to do what is best for themself. Sometimes good people hurt people but not because they intend to. They are just only concerned with what’s best for them and if you get hurt it wasn’t intended.
@Charles Davis Jr – Charles I’m glad Bishop cleared that up for you and by the way, he addressed this issue because I asked him to make a comment and help me out, as he is my pastor and has been for the last 20 years of my life. Although you see what we said as different, trust and believe, he and I are on the same page. Let me give what I am trying to say one more stab. (I was formulating this analogy on my way to work)
If you go to a foreign country, most people (maybe not you Charles
) would continue to follow their own traditions/the things that are instilled in them, until something else became a way of life for them, just because they aren’t yet familiar with the new culture. After a while you become a product of your environment and adapt to what is being poured into you and what is being taught to you as customary and you begin doing things more common to that foreign country. That is all I’m saying about God. If he is part of your daily life and you have His spirit instilled within you and you are utilizing His spirit, you will act like you have His spirit in you, and just as adapting to a foreign country would take time, so does utilizing God’s spirit within us. Many people say they are Christians and say they have God dwelling within but don’t seem to ever ask God for guidance or utilize His spirit within them but completely lean and depend on their common sense and that alone. We have a world full of disasters and mishaps due to what was thought to be “common sense”. Just like Bishop gave you these scriptures, there are also many scriptures to support the traumas that came to people for not following God’s voice/leading. We can start that in Genesis.
Anyway… you may never get what I am saying and even if you do, we may never agree but Charles, I am always glad to see you here at kleverkathy and I love being challenged and provoked into new thinking! Keep talking to me!
@Charles Davis Jr – Hey Charles, I was on Facebook this morning and this comment is one from a pastor friend of mine. When I read it, it screamed, It ain’t over until God says it over and I thought I’d share it with you and see what you thought.
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Yes, God sometimes allows the righteous to suffer. He allows us to cry out in frustration, deprivation and even desparation; He allows us to experience “trouble on every side, fighting without and fears within” (I Corinthians 7: 5). But be encouraged by this — your suffering pain and failures are not God’s final answer! When He has tried you, you shall come forth as pure Gold!!
@Kathy –
As an artist I’m guided by some inner insctinct that I can’t explain, but I would saw it’s God. I believe we have a natural ability that developes as we grow, Some says they are inspired, but if they don’t believe in God or don’t deal with God then how is it that God could be inspiring them? I was once told that God told one of his primative creations that that would name things whatever they wanted and that the names have stuck even until this day. Is that correct?
If so then that shows that much of whar we might think is God is us. Why would God need to interfere in our daily life? I mean we could fix it up and make ourself thing it is God, as our minds are what control our beliefs anyway.
I believe if I was in another country that sure I’d be inclined to believe what I’d learned, but according to your pastor and what you said in this quote it sounds like you were the victum of some kind of misguided teaching in the past.
I not trying to challenge anyone, just get some kind of understanding of what I don’t understand. Your pastor made a lot of sense to me.
I have had conversations with people who are religious and a lot of what they say makes no sense whatsoever. I think this is why a lot of people don’t get into religion. Maybe at some point you’d like to discuss what you believe, such as what kind of group/faith/cult you follow.
I understand and agree with much of what you have said Charles, especially in your first paragraph. “As an artist I’m guided by some inner insctinct that I can’t explain, but I would saw it’s God.” Basically, that is all I have been trying to say. You said it perfectly.
As I’ve grown and gotten to think for myself and use my own common sense
) to get to know God, I’d like to talk more about what kind of God I follow instead of what kind of group/faith/cult I follow.
Hmmm well I don’t know what you believe in exactly, but I do know that there are some people in cults who talk like you do. They worship a leader and follow what he says. They usually dress in these long dresses that look like they come off a Kansas plains woman. German Baptist, Dunkards, Pentecostals etc…
lol. I am not part of a cult. My skirt is somewhat long today but I assure you when accessorized with the shoes I am wearing, I don’t look like a woman off the plains of Kansas!
My beliefs and doctrines are best matched with the Apostolic Pentecostal religion and that is my religion of choice!
Do you handle snakes too?
@Charles Davis Jr – Just snakey people!
You are amusing…