God doesn’t work the way we do. He rarely uses the obvious route. He promises something big, and the route to receiving it includes losing the very thing He promised you. Things usually get so bleak you’ll want to give up. Everyone will call the promise impossible.
I know this from firsthand experience. God promised me a man who would work alongside me to fix up my property and conduct retreats. He showed me a fun, energetic man who would teach, speak and travel with me. He showed me our great communication and connection years before I knew this man in reality.
The direct logical route would have been that after my divorce this guy comes into my life, marries me, moves in and we get to work. Not with God. I actually had to lose my business, lose the house… lose everything. What God promised me looked utterly impossible.
I gave up on it, didn’t need it anymore. Didn’t care, and then BAM God restored it all to me and more. And it came in such a way that the man who joined me could be a real active part of it … not someone tagging along on my dream. He got his own dreams fulfilled in the process. He has real ownership in all of it.
Everything happened for the best to change me into the person capable of receiving the blessings. I had things I had to release, to forgive, to learn. I needed some humbling and to learn to trust God more and see the finger of the Lord in EVERYTHING. And I never could have learned these things without the excruciating pain along the way and losing it all.
There are some people who see the miracles in our situation and rejoice with us. Others see sinister motives.. they see a woman who manipulated a guy into loving her to get her dreams. I know the truth and God knows the truth. People can believe whatever they want. But we both know that God did this. We see His finger in every little twist and turn of the story. And frankly, this promise God gave me was something I didn’t even care about having by the time it came. I had to truly release the need for the outcome. That’s key… remember that.
In this nation, we thought God would just fix things, drain the swamp, and restore liberty. If you feel God set something in motion in our country and has dropped the ball, I promise God always delivers on His promises. It just looks like loss and chaos along the way. When all hope is lost and what He promised looks impossible, BAM, He delivers it all and abundantly more.
Just remember that God’s ways aren’t our ways. Nothing says who has to be President to make that happen. Think in terms of outcome — not people, events or circumstances. God doesn’t need any of our game plans.
When it all is fulfilled, there will be people who dismiss it as manmade manipulation … but we’ll know that God did it. We’ll be changed ourselves so we are worthy of the promised blessings. And best of all, we’ll have the added ability to see the finger of the Lord in everything ever after. We’ll have the faith to move mountains.
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