RECOGNIZE HIS PLANS

To discover God’s will for your situation, step-by-step plan for you to follow.  The first step includes confession of sin, There are people who believe that they can say a quick prayer and God will answer it without requiring anything from them.  However, they overlook that fact that God’s first desire is for us to draw near to Him in order to enjoy His presence and fellowship.  We worship Him first.  Like Moses, we come to Him, bow down and remove our “sandals” as a symbol that we know we are on holy ground.  Lay down your personal desires.  This is essential to overcoming the difficulties of life.  Sometimes God allows hardship to coach us into giving Him full control of our lives. As long as we are pressing to reach our desires without considering what the Lord wants us to do, we will  run into conflict.  You can tell the Lord, “Father, this is what I truly want to do.  I place my desires in neutral. Please show me Your will for my situation so I can be obedient to You. Genuine maturity is patience.  James writes, “Let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing” (James 1:4).  In other words, let patience complete its work in your life so that you will be mature, wanting nothing other than what God in His grace and mercy gives freely to you.  Have you ever considered the gifts that God gives? Many times, people avoid praying about a problem because they do not want to face it for fear that God will punish them or withhold His goodness,  God gives good gifts to His children. He wants us to be so in tune with Him that we find all our needs met in Him. He not only provides answers to problematic situations, He also provides the way things we long to receive, friendships, gifts, and even possessions for our enjoyment as long as our first and only goal is to move our lives for Him. Remember His promise to us, “The Lord God is a sun and shield… no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” James reminds us, “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.”  It is important to be patient with the Lord. Blessings.

Pastor Edpaul