I started writing a book a couple of years ago. God started writing it LONG before that. Recently, the need to write is being stirred again... and blog posts alone aren't the answer for me! I have a lot more than this finished, but as I read through it this morning, I couldn't wait to share it... God is SO GOOD! We just have to open our eyes and see that He is everywhere.
“Everything will work out fine in the end. If it hasn’t worked out, then it isn’t the end.”
How
patient are you? Are you good at waiting for God’s promises? When you
are waiting on God to answer a prayer, how long do you wait before you
begin to get discouraged? A day? A week? Two years? Seven?
You
might be surprised to know that patience isn’t my strongest asset. If
you know me, then you probably laughed just now. That’s okay. I like to
make people laugh.
There are days when I have confidently told
others that God has perfect timing, only to crawl into bed and cry while
telling God that I can’t wait any longer for what He has promised me.
There
have been times when I have tried to take matters into my own hands. I
have tried to HELP GOD. It’s nothing new… plenty of people in the Bible
did the same thing. They proved it is never a good idea… but we do it
anyway. It never quite works out right.
So what do we do while we are
waiting? How do we keep from becoming discouraged? We need to look and
see what God IS doing... to give us the strength to wait. God is doing
miracles EVERY SINGLE DAY. For you, for me, for people all over… but if
you stay focused on what you don’t have, you’ll never see what’s going
on around you.
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and
revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to
which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his
holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
Ephesians 1: 17-19
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