Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Are You Ending In Faith What You Started In Faith or Have You Given Up In The Middle Of The Process?

Have you lost your faith in the middle of the process?   Remember, what you start in faith, you have to end in faith.   Are there areas in your life where you started off believing that God can and God will do a thing and now you are in a place of wondering if He can or will?   Areas where you trusted God to do whatever it is you needed done?   Areas where you don’t understand why things are going the way you planned or should I say the way they used to go?   If so, make sure you are still trusting, believing, waiting, and wanting God to move and manifest the way you trusted and believed Him when you first began the process. 

God is a good God and timing is in His hand.   He’s in control and He will work everything together in our lives for our good and His glory.    Timing is not a problem for God.   He knows the perfect time for everything we need and He is well able to bring everything together at that perfect point in time.   The problem with us is that we sometimes give up in the middle of the process.   We have to learn how to stick with the process and we need to make sure we never give up.    We have to make sure that we remain steadfast and immovable until we get to the promise which is always at the end of the process.    

When you think about baking a cake, there is a process you must go through to make the cake.   You have to make sure you have all of the ingredients.   You then have to mix the ingredients together.   You then have to prepare the pan for the ingredients and once the pan is prepared you have to pour the ingredients in the pan.   You then have to set the oven to the right temperature because cooking the cake to fast or to slow can cause the cake to fall or not come out right.   Then you have to wait for the cake to bake.   Waiting for the cake to bake and cool can sometimes be the hard part because you are ready to cut the cake and enjoy what you have made.   It is only when we go through all of the processes with faith and patience, that we get to actually enjoy what started out as a process with a lot of different ingredients but through faith, patience, and a process, it ended up as the promise of a cake that we can enjoy. 

We have to trust, believe, and wait on God.   We have to stay in faith and continue to talk to God and ask of God.   We have to stop getting discouraged and giving up in the middle of the process.  We have to remember that the same God that started the process with us is in the midst of the process and will be with us as we walk into His promises.    We have to stay in faith and trust Him to do what only He can.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Psalms 62:5 
King James Version
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation [is] from Him.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

God Never Wants Us To Give Up, Let Go or To Stop Walking In Faith! Keep Hoping, Trusting, and Believing!

What happens when you give up and let go?   What happens when you lose all hope and expectancy?   What happens to your faith?   What happens to the way you walk and the way you talk?    What happens to you?

A lot of times we start out on a journey of faith and expectancy and things happen.   We encounter situations in our lives that don’t coincide with what we are trying to do or expecting God to do through us and for us.   What do you do when you have an encounter in your life that goes against what you are expecting in life?   Do you give up and quit?   Do you lose all of your hope?   Do you change your mind and the plan that you have in place?

God wants us to push through.   He wants us to trust Him no matter what.   He wants us to know that He will make a way.   His plan is perfect although at times it may seem hard.   It’s time to trust God all the way through the process and not just when the process is easy.   It’s time to endure to the end.   

So let’s pray today for God’s help.   Let’s pray for His guidance and His strength. 

“Father we come before you now asking that You help us through the processes we encounter in life.   Father we need You.   We need You to make a way when there appears to be no way and we need You to open up doors that appear to be closed.   Father we need You to direct our steps and to make our crooked places straight.   We need You and we are coming to You now asking for Your guidance and strength in Jesus name … amen.”

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 
Hebrews 10:36 
King James Version (KJV)

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

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