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Have you ever followed your GPS and it suddenly wanted to take you in another direction, and you begin to complain and fuss wondering why it changed direction? So, you don't follow the GPS, you continue going in the same direction. Then you get down the highway and find that there is a backup in traffic because of an accident and wish you had gone the way the GPS was telling you to go. We do that with God, don't we?
Watch out for the enemy after you have received a great victory or deliverance from the Lord. Satan knows he is defeated and now he will try to sow discouragement in your mind. And this can happen especially if you are tired and worn out from battling the enemy, which was probably the case with Elijah. He even prayed for God to take his life: Elijah needed a refreshing from the Lord, and God sent angels to feed him and give him water to drink.
It doesn't matter how dark your path may seem to be, hold on to your faith. Joseph never blamed God for the hard times he experienced, he continued to trust Him to bring him out. The Bible doesn't even say anything about him hating his brothers for what they did to him. Instead, he let God use him right where he was. And because of his obedience and love for God, never turning his back on God, God turned things around for Joseph and blessed him abundantly.
Faith without works is dead, we must activate our faith: do something to show that we believe God, that He will do whatsoever we ask. You need a job and are praying for God to open a door for you. Then go out and put in applications, expecting God to answer your prayer. Your wayward children are not listening to you as you try to lead them in the right way. Put them in the hands of Jesus by faith and prayer, and leave them there; expecting them to be saved.
There is One Who has truly lived up to His Name; His Name is, Jesus. Joseph was told by the angel that he was to name Him, "Jesus", because He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21). God had a plan and a purpose for Jesus' Name in the earth. Jesus lived, suffered, bled and died, to save us from our sins; and then rose again.
What is your problem today? What circumstances have come up that you feel you just cannot deal with? Whatever you do, don't get under them! Use your spiritual weapons and overcome them with the Word of God. Search the Scriptures and see what God has said about that situation, and say what He says. Put it under the Blood of Jesus, and declare the victory.
In order for the power of God to be made manifested in the lives of those we touch, we must first believe in our hearts that God will do what He says He will do. Jesus said if we believe and not doubt in our heart, that we could ask what we want and it will be given unto us. We have to rise up and walk the walk of faith before we can help someone else. And the confidence is not in ourselves, but in the living God.
Are you available to God today? What has He done for you? Think about it. In your time of sadness and sorrow, did you see the miracle of God's strength in your life? God is a very present help in time of trouble. (Psalm 46:1). Have you seen God's miracle in your time of sickness; how He healed your body, took away the pain?
We as Christians should have one goal in mind, to stay in this race of life until the end. We refuse to become dropouts. We have the same goal in mind that Paul had, "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which ae behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-21. Our enemy will try to get our eyes off the prize, but we must stay focused.
Do you remember the old television police series, "Kojak", with Telly Savalas as the bald, lollipop sucking, tough guy detective? Always in each drama he would end up say, "Who loves ya', Baby?" If you were asked that question today, what would be your answer.
