Forget About The Journey?

Sometimes I just sit during my quiet time, and get frustrated at the fact that God just isn’t working hard enough in my journey to heal me or to change me or whatever HE has promised to do in MY LIFE.  I sit and watch others and wonder… God… Why don’t your heal that person?  Why are THEY going through what they are going through?  Well… there are definitely TWO lessons to learn out of this.  For one thing.  God has HIS own plan, and HIS will in the matter WILL be done (Mathew 6:10).  This for some of us, may be a NEW revelation, and I have spoken about this many times.  We can take the song “He’s got the whole world in HIS hands” to literally mean “He’s got the WHOLE WORLD (and their journey) in HIS hands” (Isaiah 9:6, Lamentations 3:37).

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After careful meditation on HIS WORD.  I come to realize that it’s not just the END RESULT.  It’s the JOURNEY that’s involved here.  You don’t have to wake up in the morning and get discouraged because the you can rest assured that the JOURNEY itself is actually happening.  “LITTLE BY LITTLE”  (Deuteronomy 7:22).  This was so excited as I read this because it brings about a HOPE and a reassurance is God’s work in our lives and the lives of those we love, and are praying for.  You see, God’s work is not going to happen NOW, We may not be healed IMMEDIATELY, We may need to weather the storm for a while longer.  As I read that verse, and meditated on it I came to realize that if we Don’t allow God to work in our life, if we walk by the flesh, and not by the Spirit we depend on ourselves, and not God to do the work that He is doing in us.  At the end of Deuteronomy 7:22 we see that “You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.”  I find this to be an interesting passage because I think that God is saying that if it happens all at ONCE, and not “Little by Little” according to HIS plan, and HIS WAY, pride will set in, and that is just ONE of the wild animals that is spoken about in this scripture verse.

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So… don’t look for it NOW, look for it in God’s time with God’s stamp of approval, and don’t get discouraged because it IS happening a LITTLE at a time.

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Discouragement Destroys Hope

Discouragement is a tool of Satan that, if allowed, will bring down all of your hope.  I was asking myself this week… What is the definition of HOPE?  Where do we get our HOPE From?

Psalm 62:5 says that our “Hope comes from the Lord”. HOPE is our FAITH in the future. So ultimately discouragement kills our Faith in the future.

I am always looking to God for encouragement because God doesn’t want us to be discouraged.  Evil is the exact opposite nature of God so when I feel discouragement coming on I know that evil is lurking somewhere, and more than likely it is lurking in my thought life.  The thoughts of “I’m not going to make it”, “This is too hard”, “I’m not good enough”, “They are so much better than me at doing that”, “I can’t”, “I pray, but God doesn’t seem to answer or He’s just not hearing”, or the BIG one for me is “He probably doesn’t answer my prayers because He is so disppointed in the way I act.”

Well… here I am to tell you today, that all of the statements above are LIES, LIES, LIES.  Satan wants us to believe the lies.  If any of those statements above are representing your thoughts, we have to get away from the lies, and look at the TRUTH.  With God’s Word we can change our thinking, renew our minds, and SET ourselves FREE from all discouragement.

Proverbs 23:7 – “As a man thinks in his heart, and so he is”

Instead of thinking negatively, let’s change it. 

“I am making progress”, “I am healing”, “Things may be a little slow in my healing, but God is getting me there”, “I am glad I am focused on HIM on not my circumstance, this puts me on the path to a healing, and a path to peace”, “I made a mistake, but I know God forgives me, and I know I won’t make that mistake again”, “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!”, “I refuse to believe what Satan tells me”, “I refuse to live in discouragement”

When we are believing the lies we are going against the nature of God.  When we are feeling anxious, or stressed, we are not believing in the TRUTH of “God is OMNIPOTENT (Rev 19:6), God is OMNIPRESENT (Genesis 28:16)”, “He is the Alpha and OMEGA(Revelation 22:13)”, “All things are possible with God (Mathew 19:26)

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Notice something here… in the Negative Statements above there is no TRUTH (Scripture Verses) to go along with them because they are all LIES.  You have all of the POWER in the Universe at your finertips to remove any lie in your head with the TRUTH of God’s Word!

Psalm 42:5

Why are you downcast, O my soul?

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Savior and 6my God.

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