Good morning,
Today I just want to talk a little bit about trusting God, especially when you haven't seen anything manifest in your life that you long for. “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts." (Is.55:8-9) We may have insight to some of God's ways, those things that He reveals to us, but no one knows all the thoughts of God. Together collectively we can even compile a lot of His thoughts, but we would be omniscient, God, if we did know all of His thoughts. That's why even to people of faith God does things in his timing, not in ours. We usually want God to explain Himself. Tell us the why of everything! I know I am guilty of wanting explanations to why He doesn't do things the way I expect Him to do it, and when I want Him to do things, given a little time of waiting. "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law." (Deu. 29:29) The Word of God is enough for us to do, and whatever He does open and show us is what we need to know in order to walk the Word out in our lives. That is why we have help from on high, so that when things are revealed to us that is to deep for our understanding, Holy Spirit comes to our aide and assist us into actually understanding and then doing it, "The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation"). (Pro. 4:7) "Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny]." (1 Corin. 2:10) If we are honest, we know that most spiritual things bypass our earthly reasoning and goes to our born-again spirit man to be processed, spirit to Spirit. We can't even reason why the Word of God actually produces a transformation in us, but our spirit knows that the Word works that way. So, we will never on this side of earth know the answers to all things concerning God, but that's what faith really is, right? "Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting." (2 Corin. 4:18) Focusing our gaze upon the everlasting things instead of the temporal things that tries to block the eternal view, that is part of our fight. That which is genuine and real sometimes become overshadowed by temporal things, and we really have to make ourselves focus.
When this happens and you find your mind hanging around the old flesh pots of Egypt, remember there is a promised land worth having. [And said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger; Ex. 16:3] Talk to your mind, your self and tell it, "I don't know how or when it is coming, but I do know that it is going to happen just the way He said it would." Always remember that those fleshpots, old haunts, habits, pleasures, thoughts, ways, were hooked to the ways of the world. Talk to yourself, God said,"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."(Jer.29:11) It doesn't matter how long, stay with Him, as long as you know and understand that God has a plan to give you hope in your final outcome. Expected equals, cord, hope, ground of hope, things hoped for, outcome. God's thoughts are towards us for peace and hope! Keep praying in the spirit and doing the Word, don't allow yourself to be discouraged, you will reap the promise if you don't faint. Don't faint, don't let your grip go! Let's practice staying in joy and rejoice while we are waiting, and before you know it we will walk right into your promise land!
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 