Hardships Moved Me Closer to God 

Sis, the entire Cling album, especially the song "weary" "kept woman" and "new thing" is blessing me. I cry, weep, pray, rock, write while listening to your album. the part when you said, "I'm not clinging to get something, clinging is the blessing". God had to highlight to me this week to check my motives! ouch! I love how you said, "we can come out of hardships with a stronger friendship with the LORD and NOTHING on earth can compare to it" I have to write this on my calendar as an encouragement/ reminder. this is my prayer that God has my full attention, with pure motives, and that he will be ENOUGH even after the hardships! Thanks again Kim.!

Yes this is real talk... finally! My prayers for God to miraculously remove a tumor over night didn't happen but He was faithful and held my hand through chemo surgeries and radiation. By His love and grace I'm still His!

I’m clinging to our Savior, while praising and praying with my Cling fam!!🙌🏼🙏🏼🕊Please remember me in y’all’s prayers.🥰

“I’m not clinging to get something I’m not clinging so some circumstance will change, I’m not clinging to get a blessing…clinging is the blessing, His presence is the blessing” thank you for another good lesson 🧡

“Knowing that He is with you is everything”! Amen! God bless you my sister, and to Him be all the glory! ❤️🙏🏾

*Yes, I keep HIM close too. Thank you. Blessings* !

Thank you for sharing this. I can truly see God's strength is made perfect in your weakness... I can so relate...Just this past Christmas season I was asking God some of the same questions, why Lord,...why so many things back to back... You promised rest on every side... why am I not getting any rest... please give me some relief... I'm still clinging and trusting God... that He will make a way... that He will, heal, restore, renew, refresh and rebuild... Praying for you and your family, God bless you🙏🏾

Thank you for sharing. I could say sooo much more, but I thank God for you, because He has used you mightily in my life: I am clinging to my Heavenly Father-and there is no better place to be!!🙏🏾❤️

Thank You so much for the way make me no matter God has me and he will always be here with me Amen. So glad I have found you again on RU-vid.

Thank you for being real! 💝💝💝

You bring such a marvelous breath of fresh air for the believers. Thank you thank you thank you, I’m not alone I’m a new followerI’m pretty much a new follower thank you for your transparency I enjoy your teaching but thank God oh my God for the transparency I’m not the only one

Loved hearing this! You were spot on with the open and closed doors. I've had God divinely open doors only for them to close, especially with writing and publishing. It was frustrating and discouraging, but eventually I learned I was gaining something from those experiences. It's hard talking about disappointments while you're still dealing with them. I'm learning to cling to God even as I continue waiting on promises. Thank you for always sharing your journey! 💜

I haven’t even watched yet but like the video just based off the title! Def going thru some hardships and feel our Fathers big loving arms around me like never before

I was hanging on every word. Thank you for sharing!

I appreciate your openness. It ministered to me.

Thanks Kim

Sis, this right here...thank you 💞🙌🏾🙏🏽

Thank you for sharing Kim. God bless you and keep you. 😘

Amen 🙏

Love your vids but can you do a hair tutorial and your hair care products for your lovely hair.

God allowed something happen to me last July, which I've been clinging to Him since. He's been showing me that He is always, always with me no matter what happens. Hard times are coming, cling to the Lord as much as you can. He loves you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you for sharing your testimony, Kim. God bless.

Oh Kim, this is sooo good! I lost a 14 year old son to suicide in 2006. When I say the Lord has carried me day after day after day... He brought me to *Acceptance* a great while ago. Even so, a few years ago -- as I clung-- I was wrestling with some questions about it all. Eventually the Spirit whispered to my heart and said, " Do you want answers or do you want Me?" Whew!! God certainly has ALL the answers but what He really wants to give us is (more of) Himself! Thank you for sharing with us! Clinging is the life! 🙌🏾🙏🏾❤

Hello Kim. I've been watching your videos for awhile. First I like to say I am 65 years old and I find you a pleasure to watch. What I love most is your personality. Your just so real. Your videos are a comfort to me, and just so beautiful. God bless you and take care of yourself and your family. Pray for me and I will continue praying for you. Love you sister in Christ.❤️

I literally was in my living room, going through trying not to worry and relax and your video pop up in my notification and I needed to hear this, it’s a hard season, but GOD is definitely faithful. Thank you so much! This helped.

I had a difficult day. Thank you for this message. God is good. 🙌🏽

Yeahhhhhh hardships bring you closer. They are NOT fun at all but He's here with us all the time. So it's fine when it's not fine lol

Thank you for sharing Kim ♥️ it’s been a really tough time for me recently and I think we expect life to be sunshine and rainbows and we don’t know how to go to God and ask him what’s going on. But we know that he is the only one that can give us peace.

Right on time… GOD’s timing is amazing! Thank you!😘

Yes, I’m a believer! I remember going through a really rough time and I told some church members about how I was crying and didn’t think I could stop and how I actually felt as if He had me physically in his arms holding me. Well needless to say they looked at me as if I had lost my mind 😂 but I know He was and is with me.

“Clinging is the blessing. His presence is the blessing.”Whew! I’ll be honest, I also thought you made clinging look easy. I appreciate your transparency especially about your children. I needed this video this morning. I’ve never looked at hardships as blessings. I’m going through a tough time right now and I needed this reminder to turn to Him, instead of continuously turning over the same thoughts.

Thank you for sharing this video, Kim. I shared in your last video that I just lost my husband last November 27. Right now, only God can understand the depth of my pain. And I choose to cling to Him in my pain. There's no other way. I had to pour out my heart to God today (crying rivers) and I was being honest to Him that He is all I have but I don't feel Him. While you were speaking (in this video), I felt as if God took my honest words I spoke to Him today and placed them in your mouth. And then you reminded me that God is present. He is right here while I'm going through this very difficult time. And He is faithful. Thank you.

Thank you for the encouraging words. God will give us the strength when we are going through trails and tribulations. Cling to God is the only way to get through our problems.

This is so important. Often we think the clinging is easy. However, the Lord is so gracious to allow hardship to draw us close to Him. I went through a very dark time. It was so hard. Even now thinking about it …. Now, I know the Lord loves me and is faithful.

I am a 54 year old white woman, and I look for your videos over anyone else. I don't follow any other podcasts or channels with this type of content. Thank you for being you and real before us and God.

Not me getting my cling book so I can read with you🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Storytime lol

You are such a wonderful teacher please let us all Cling"

Haleluja Glory to the Lord Jesus amen. Thank you for this teaching amen. God bless you amen. Greeting from Netherland 💯✍🙏

Oh Kim - how I NEEDED to see this video and ingest your message. It’s priceless!!! Thank you for always being real and open, for always offering hope and for always pointing and positioning us towards God. 💜💕💖🙌🏼

OKAY NEW INTRO!!! THAT WAS CUTE!!

This was much needed!! Thank you! Near the end all I could hear in my spirit was your song “Faithful, He’s Faithful “🎵🎶🎶!

💯Real Talk✨ Listening to you Kim gave me hope through this challenge I’m currently facing. Thank you for sharing ❤️✨

When I am overwhelmed I find myself going to God and bawling, pouring out my soul because no one else can help me. And I said God you said this. You said that. Now please help me. After all that I just sit there. Kim, I thank you for being real because not many people are. And as a child of God who is trying hard to cling, I NEED to know there is hope in God.

Thank you so much Kim for this video. I really needed to hear this right now at this very moment. How your hardships moved you closer to God. How important it is to Cling to God almighty during hardships. ❤😇

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Hello is this book on CD or DVD something for low vision people to read Or listen to

I was definitely meant to hear all of this. God put this video on my feed for a reason. Thanks Kim! 🤍

God bless you Kim as always so grateful for your wisdom and words... I am clinging to Him and He is bringing me through a tough season 💜🙏💜🙏

🥺❤️ thank you

Truly a lot of my clinging to God has always been eruption of pains, failures, denials, unanswered desires and prayers. But one thing is so sure He knows all about it, though I really don't understand why. But in these pains I have been able to see God teaching and forming Himself in me... making me more like He wants. Even our trials and sufferings are common to all according to the word of God. But I know we have a priest who has pass through it All. God bless you Ma'am for sharing a little...you are really a blessing to me! God keep you for His glory always, in Jesus name Amen....

Hey Kim, Thanks for the upload, had you on my mind the other day. #Clingstrong💚💜

Thank you so much for sharing. This has been so encouraging!

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My dear sister in Christ, I’m in college, a single mother, but clinging to the lord like never before. This has been a going on journey for me as well. God led me to your videos yesterday because the season I am in they are most definitely needed. Thank you for your transparency. My prayer is that I can do the same once I’m past this season of isolation. God bless you, you are so loved ❤

I so needed to hear this right now. Thank you so much for encouraging me!

Matthew 10:39 if you cling to your own life, you will lose it but if you give up your life for mine (God’s life) you will find it. Thanks Kim for helping me find truth in God’s word today.

Thank you!

Thanks Kim for sharing the hardships we encounter as Christians. The crucified life as you shared is not ministered in the public arena as much as the "walk of Righteousness.". We all must carry our crosses and the way will yeild unforseen attacks and challenges. We must keep in mind that nothing we see in the natural realm is what it looks like on the surface, especially since scripture states that "the vision is for an appointed time, though it tarry wait for it." Much love to you sis as you walk by faith!

I can't began to explain how this was so good to hear!! The transparency was much needed! Thank you so much for this video! This has blessed me in my hard times of parenting. Just to know im not alone means the world to me!! God bless you Kim!

Kim dearest, I loved what you said.... cling to God is the blessing. Thank you for say that.

Wow! This word is for me Sis. I have been is a season of hardship with parenting as well. Because of videos like this help me know I’m not alone. I will get through this with prayer and faith in my Father through his son in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, this has been a blessing to me. The hardships are real, but as you said we can get through the hardship if we cling to God.

Ah, yes and amen! I'm praising Him for His promise to *never* leave or forsake us! Sis, you know some of my hardships as well, and it does not take much to propel me right back to the evening of April 22, 2014 when my life as I knew it shattered - I can remember every minute of that night, including kneeling on the landing of my stairs while the living room was filled with paramedics, begging God to do a miracle and change the outcome. In that minute, I knew His answer was going to be "no", but I also felt a true peace that passed understanding surround me. I felt His presence. I knew, even though I was about to be walking through fire and being swept over by the waters that God would be right there and I woud not be burned or drowned. He was right - through anguish, heartache, sadness, and so much uncertainty, He has NEVER left me and I agree that I am closer to Him now than ever before, mostly *because* of His provisions and mercies even in the midst of hardships. The joy of the Lord is our strength, even as this world tries to steal and kill it, and the closer we cling to God, the more we see His love and mercy. Thank you for sharing some of your walk, too, Sis, and I hear you on that parenting front! It is NO JOKE. You know Jaden is only 8, and whew......BUT GOD. By the way, I'm loving that yellow top! :) Yellow is my fave color, and you were rocking it! 💜 Hugs to you!

Thank you so much for this video! I needed to hear this. God is the blessing. Clinging is the blessing. There is no greater privilege than having a relationship with God

Love watching your videos. They're all so inspiring, and clinging to God is truly a blessing!

Wow. Thank you. Thank you. These conversations are so needed in our faith walk. May we cling to our good Father even in the hardships(the ugly, messy, dirty, painful) of life ❤️❤️❤️ Clinging is the blessing He is our great reward. It's all Him.

God bless you, Kim! Good stuff!

So so true ! If I didn't have You!!! Way to go Kim🎉

Thanks so much again for a wonderful lesson on cling 🙏🙏🙏💟

Kim, thank you so much for sharing. It’s so easy to forget that our struggles can encourage others even more than our successes. Grateful for this framing of the Gospel to remind us that this love story with God has plenty of tears 💙

It's so easy to get dismayed with all the things we deal with on a daily basis especially over these last 2 years. Thanks Kim for reminding me that "clinging is the blessing".

“HE IS WITH YOU” Whew!! That part! His Presence is the true blessing!! AMENNNN 🙌🏾 Once again Sis you have blessed me with an on-time word. Thank you so much!! Praying for you as I know you’re praying for me. Much love and many blessings 🤎🙏🏽🤎

Sis God bless you thank you for sharing God is good !!

Because PERIOD!!!! Lol Amennnnn Thank you for this reminder 💛🙏🏾

His presence is my blessing

Thank you so much for sharing ! It’s so true ..it’s is through the hard times you cling to God . I feel closer to God than ever before since starting prayer journaling everyday . It has been life changing .

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Hard Times R Meant To Make U 💪🏽!! 😇💌

Thank you for this words of comfort thank you so good to clink to the Lord

All I need is to be financially independent and good health

If hardships don't get you to God I don't know what will... I am not going back to this cruel and crazy world.... life is not worth living if you don't have God... I'm staying I won't go back to the way I used to be! I feel you💯✔🙌

Thank you, Kim. Yep life is a bit difficult right now. My foot would have slipped if I had not remembered His kindness toward and love for me. 💚💚💚💚

This has been a really timely word, Kim. I thank God that He always responds. Things sometimes don't make sense, but the only thing we need to worry about is clinging to Him. In His presence is fullness of joy forevermore. God bless you all always!

So good! So true that God uses hard times to draw us closer and I’m so grateful! It definitely doesn’t FEEL good in the moment, but He works ALL things together for the good and for his glory! 🙌🏽

I found your channel a while ago and am so thankful I did. This particular message really hit home as I have been dealing with the fallout of one my children's poor choices for about five years now and there is really no end in sight. I can relate to the sobbing, heaving cries and the fear. Although the first initial pain has faded somewhat, the long haul pain is still there. Clinging to my Savior is the ONLY way I can even get out of bed some days. Thank you for your openness. I understand fully the idea of some trials not being open to public discussion. Oh, and I bought your Cling book and am reading it now.

I love ❤️ your transparency in how you give just enough without exposing too much. The statement that I cling to the most in this video is that God’s presence is the blessing. Not clinging to get something from God or a certain outcome. That right there gripped me. Thank you so much for sharing. You are truly my Sister in Christ and I love you so much. You are in my prayers.

That part about giving to much information... yes! I sometimes feel like I am giving to much when I send things out. I start getting nervous and think what will they say... then someone will let me know how much it encouraged them through their trial etc. Thank you for the video... it encouraged me!❤

Yes! Thank you for your transparency. I will stay close to the Lord. Blessings sis🌈🕊🤗

Always good to view one of your uplifting videos 👍🏽👍🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I agree with the title because I experienced a few hardships recently and I just cast all my cares on the Lord and told Jesus I may not have anything but all I need is you. And the next day God provided for me. I did not stress or anything but was content and that was my result.

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This video has been such a blessing. I have listened to it more than once. Lord, help me to cling to you especially when the going gets rough.

Clinging is the blessing!

Amen, Kim! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing, this message is for me, really going through alot right now.

Please pray for my family. My 7 year old granddaughter has cancer 💔

Thank you so much for your transparency! 🌺❤️

HEYYYYYYYYY KIMMMMMMMM!!!!! I'M HEREEEEEEEE!! Lol.💚

Thank you