I guess you might be wondering what in the world I am talking about. Well I will tell you. God has showed me a thing or two.
About three months ago God told me that something BIG was going to happen in around 3 months. I was like okay this is gooooood. I told another person what God had been telling me. She was like yea, He has been telling me the same thing. So it was like I confirmed it for her and she confirmed it for me.
I was pumped up for a while....then the devil started telling me things like: you made it up God didn't tell you that or my all time favorite you were just in yourself. He lied and played tug of war with my mind. You see when God tells you something you just know without a shadow of a doubt. Nothing can take it away from you. The devil can try to bring you down but deep down inside of you, you hang on for dear life as to what God has spoken.
I am just wanting to encourage everyone out there with a promise from God, to hang on. It might not be the way we think He is going to move or the time we think it should happen. God says that He is moving even when we think He is not. That all things will be done in His timing. Like that song goes "Job said He may not be there when you want Him but He's always there on time He's an on time God yes He is." He says in Isaiah 55:8 "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." God has showed me that His plans are to prosper us and not to harm us. That if we are truly serving Him with all of our hearts, mind, and soul, that He is going to take care of us.
Something else that I wanted to share.....When we finally make our minds up to serve God and allow Him to take over. There is a cleaning up process that has to be done. God takes all the things (sin) inside of us and gets rid of it. It is not an overnight thing. However long we were out in sin it takes God a while to restore us to our "factory settings". How He intended us to be "programmed". In our life of sin we had grown customed to saying negative things, hearing negative things, and seeing things in a negative way. God wants us to change our ways of thinking. He wants us to prophecy good things in our life. He has showed me that we need to have a spiritual and positive way of thinking. Instead of getting out of the bed of a morning and dreading the day...Get up and say Something good is going to happen to me. Thank God for waking you up and give Him thanks. Then all day long go around saying to yourself something good is going to happen to me. Then if nothing good doesn't happen at least you will notice that you were much happier during your day just by expecting God to do something for you. God is wanting to bless people who are expecting Him to bless them. Someone once said "I would rather expect something from God and get a little than to go my whole life and expect nothing and get all of it." That is so true. We shouldn't be afraid to want to receive a blessing from our Father. Jesus said "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" (Matthew 7:11) That is such an awesome thought. So our negative thoughts have got to go. Instead of thinking that things will never get better start prophecying over them dry bones. In every area of your life start prophecying great things. Just think of it like this, you may be going through a rough time right now but everything in your life is subject to change, except for God, He will never change. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8) So just say "I might be sick today, but my health is subject to change. My son/daugther is lost but they are subject to change. My spouse is lost but they are subject to change. My finances are really bad but they are subject to change. My dreams may not seem like a reality but they are subject to change."
I hope that this has encouraged and uplifted someone that has read this. Don't give up. Don't let the devil lie to you. Things are not as bad as they seem. When we go through things at the time it seems like they are huge (like David & Goliath). But when you see your problem bigger than God then you are doing something wrong. God is bigger than all our problems. If we do what is right and keep our minds upon the Lord, He will come through for us. Stay in His presence where it is well. That is the only peace, joy, and hope we have is in the Lord. Keep putting your faith, hope, and trust in the Lord. All three of these things go hand in hand.
God Bless
