Are You Expecting God To Divinely Intervene In Your Situation Despite All The Distractions That Are Coming Up In Your Life?

What are you looking for?   Are you looking for God to show up and to show out in your situation?   What is your expectancy?   Are you expecting the worst to happen or are you expecting God to bring about a change?   Are you expecting Him to intervene?

To intervene means to come between something in order to prevent or alter the result or course of events.   Are you calling on God?   Are you pleading the blood of Jesus over your life and your family?   Are utilizing the  power that has been given to you through the name of Jesus?    When you commit to serving God, your life will become a target.   It becomes the enemy's goal to get you to give up and quit on God.   The enemy wants you to take your eyes off of God and to focus in on you and your situation.   You have to get to the point of knowing that the only way to make it through your situation is to stay focused on God and to trust Him to divinely intervene.    

It's time to stay focused on God despite the distractions that come up in life.   We have to look to Him, call on Him, plead the blood of Jesus over our lives and our situations, and we have to utilize the power that has been given to us through the name of Jesus.   

It's time to stop thinking negatively.   It's time to raise your expectation.   Expect God to show up!   Expect God to make a way!   Expect God to heal your body!   Expect God to give you peace!   Expect God to do what only He can do in and through your life!   EXPECT DIVINE INTERVENTION!  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalms 62:5

King James Version

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him.”      

Have You Learned How To Stay In Faith In The Midst Of All The "Why" Questions In Life?

If you could change one thing in your life, what would it be?   What would you change and why would you change it?   Do you believe that God knows what is best for You?   Do you believe that His plan is perfect even when we don't understand the "whys" in life?    Those situations where we ask the questions:   Why did our loved one die?   Why did I lose my home or my job?   Why am I all alone?  


We have to learn how to stay in faith in the midst of all the "why" questions that come up in life.  We have to trust that God's plan is perfect and that He is working everything in our life together for our good.   Then comes that question of how do we trust Him in the midst of everything else.   We have to know that this is where our faith begins.   Our faith begins with taking God at His Word and trusting that His Word is true.    Our faith can't be based on we see or what we have experienced.    Understand, faith is believing in what we cannot see and trusting that God will bring to pass those things that we have yet to experience or in some cases what we desire to experience again.  


So often we look at our lives and we think to ourselves what if this different or what if that was different.  Understand, all things are possible with God.    He is well able to take you from where you are in life and to bless you with all things that pertain to life and Godliness.   Trust Him to use the "whys" in your life for His glory.    Trust Him to work everything in your life together for your good.   Trust Him to use you and the things you have been through in life to help someone else get through in life.    Trust that your pain will be used to help someone else gain entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Mark 5:19

King James Version (KJV)

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

   


 

What Are You Doing "Next" When Things Are Not Going According To Your Plan?

What are you doing when things are not looking the way you wanted them to or expected them to look?   Are you staying in faith?   Are you standing on God's Word?   What are you doing next?   The word "next" means that which comes immediately following.   How is your follow-up?   When you follow-up, you build on something that was started earlier.    We have to get to the place where we are building on and strengthening our walk and our faith in God.  

One thing we must understanding is the beginning of a thing is not the end of it.   We have to stop quitting in the middle of the process.    Quitting is a behavior.  It is a way in which we conduct ourselves.   Behaviors can change, if we choose to change them.    We have to learn how to persevere through the process.   Processes can be quick and easy but they also can be more in depth and require more steps to complete.   We have to learn how to trust God through the process of life.   When we trust Him, we know that He is in control and we know that He will take care of us.  

What will be the "next" thing you do after you read this post.   Will you solidify God's Word in your heart?  Will you trust Him and stay in faith for what He has promised to do in your life?   Will you walk with Him and talk to Him?   Will you allow Him to show Himself strong to you, through you, and for you?   Will you lay down your pre-conceived notions and allow His Word to infiltrate your heart and mind so that you can be strong in Him?  

What you do "next" is up to you.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

James 1:6

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Are You Trusting God and Staying Rooted In His Word?

Sometimes we get so caught up in what we think is going to happen that we fail to trust God for what we need to happen.    It's time to TRUST GOD.  


The Bible says to trust the Lord with all thine heart and to lean not to our own understanding.   When we lean to our "own" understanding, we are yielding to our own emotions, our own attitudes, and our abilities.    Truly trusting God means we have to let God's Word overrule how we feel.   That means we have to let God's Word be final authority and sometimes that is hard to do but you have to make up your mind that His Word overrules your emotions.


Jeremiah 17 tells us that blessed is the man that puts his trust in the Lord.   Not only is that man blessed but He is planted.   When something is planted it becomes rooted and hard to move.    You have to get the point where you don't let anyone or anything uproot "your" trust in God.   You can't make others trust Him but you can stand on His Word, stay rooted in His Word, believe His Word, have faith in His Word, and TRUST HIS WORD to be at work in your life.  

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Jeremiah 17:7-8

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”

Are You Focusing In On The Problem or The Promise? You Have To Know The Benefits You Are Entitled To According To God's Word ...

Who God is does not change because of what you are going through.  God is still God.   He is still Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.   He is still Jehovah Jireh, our Provider.   He is still El Shaddai, God Almighty.   We make the mistake of not acknowledging who God is when we are going through situations in our lives instead of highlighting who He is while we are going through. 

We have to begin to stay focused on who God is and what He has promised to do in, through, and for us.   We have to remember that in our weakness, God has already said He is strong.   When we go through sickness in our body, we have to know and believe that He is Jehovah Rapha, our Healer.  

The Bible tells us to "forget NOT" all of His benefits.   A benefit is something that is advantageous or good.   It is a payment or a gift.   There are many benefits that God has given us in life.   When we are searching for a job, one of the first questions we ask a potential employer is "what are the benefits".   We seek them out and we learn about them so when situations occur in our lives, we know what we are entitled to.   We should be doing the same thing with the benefits of God.   We should be seeking what God has said we are entitled to in His Word so that when situations occur in our lives, we know what to do in order to receive the benefits we are entitled to per our benefit manual which is the Bible.  

So instead of focusing in on the problems that tend to be occurring in your life, focus in on the promises that God has given you concerning your life.    Know the benefits you are entitled to according to God's Word.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Psalm 103:1-5
King James Version (KJV)
103 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Are You Becoming Frustrated While You Are Waiting On God To Fulfill His Promises In Your Life?

What is the change that you are looking for?   What is it that you are expecting or asking God to do for you?   What is it that you see and that you are saying that you need?   Whatever it is, is it in line with God's Word and His will?   If so, are you waiting patiently for it or are you becoming frustrated because of the amount of time its taking to get to you?

In life, it's easy to become frustrated.    Frustration is a feeling of anger or annoyance because you are unable to do or accomplish something.   The question is, who are you angry (or frustrated) with?   Are you angry with God because of the trial you are experiencing or the delay that seems to be taking place?   One of the hardest things to do is to continue to walk in joy even in the midst of what tends to be a struggle.   

Understanding that, you have to know that the only way you can walk in joy in the midst of your struggle is when you already know the outcome.    A woman who is having a baby can endure the pain of her labor because she has an expected outcome.    It's not that she wants to go through the pain, however, she knows if she does go through, she will receive the precious gift of a child when it is over.    God said in his Word that He has a plan for us and that plan gives us hope, a future, and an expected end.   

We have to make sure we stay focused on the promises of God in the midst of everything we go through in life.   Knowing what God has promised will help you get through anything that you are going through in this life.    Not only has God promised us a hope, future, and expected end  ... He has promised us ETERNAL LIFE!   

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

I John 2:25

King James Bible

And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life

Are You Seeing God As More Than Enough When It Comes To The Things You Need In Life?

God's Grace Is Sufficient!   

We have to understand that the word sufficient means that it is adequate for the purpose and enough.    When something is not enough, it is unsatisfactory, it is found wanting, and it is inadequate.   That's not God.   God is more than enough and our satisfaction should always be found in Him.   There is nothing inadequate or unsuitable about our Father.    The real questions is, what are we trying to find satisfaction in?

It is only when we try to do things according to our own will and in our own way that we come up short.   We were never created to live or to do anything without God.   For God is El Shaddai, the ALL SUFFICIENT ONE.  

We have to learn how to seek Him.   In life it is easy to put a lot of effort in seeking people, places, or things.   Mainly because they are noticeable and can be seen.   In essence we tend to place our affection and desires on those things we can see instead of on the One we cannot see.    We have to understand that without God we would be nothing, nor could we have anything.    

Stay focused on God and always remember that His grace is sufficient for whatever we need in life.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
2 Corinthians 12:9
King James Version (KJV)
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.