He is Still Parting Red Seas

I think I may have a suggestion as to why we often get frustrated with God and His processes then end up frustrated and miserable. According to Bishop Jakes, “God orders steps and not elevators” because “the steps of a righteous man are ordered by God.” If you are a good man, then your life would have to be built on steps, which describes process. Unfortunately, we like elevators or lifts since they are faster and require us to do nothing. We are often in such a hurry for the manifestation of that which God has revealed to us in our spirits that we start living our lives like as if the vision has physically manifested. 

My intention here is not to dampen your faith but I must warn against presumption. God shows us in our spirit and then it becomes our responsibility to find out from Him what steps and/or strategy we need, to walk in the manifestation. God’s process demands that we learn patience. Recall that though Elijah heard the sound of an abundance of rain and told the king, his servant initially saw nothing. Elijah was not presumptuous; he tarried in the place of prayer, instead of going to relax like some of us would. Relaxing may be strategy for someone else  but is that your God given strategy? 

1 Kings 18: 41 “Then Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go get something to eat and drink for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming.’ So Ahab went to eat and drink but Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel and bowed low to the ground and prayed with his face between his knees.

Elijah not only sent his servant once but several times while he prayed and even when his servant  said he had seen a cloud the size of a man’s hand, Elijah continued in prayer until the rain came down. He understood God enough to know that there is usually a process that precedes the physical manifestation of what God shows you. Moses strategy for crossing the Red sea was to stretch out his rod and it took God all night to part the red sea. Some of us would never have had the patience to wait all night especially when your enemies are right behind you and your argument would be that you heard God say “tell the people to go forward.” 

Exodus 14: 15 - 16 “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving! Pick up your staff and raise your hand over the sea.”

You would never wait to receive a strategy and then wait for the parting of the sea. Sadly, a number of believers have “died in the Red sea” and others have had their miracles aborted because of impatience. We then get frustrated; instead of repenting before God, we weep and begin a pity-party which we expect other people who are struggling to endure their own process to attend and if they don’t, then they must be mean. Sadly, frustration, pity-party, misery and such like, only serve to ensure that we never see the manifestation of the vision. God shows you the vision to strengthen you; He does not intend to skip due process. 

God is not being wicked in putting a process in place for the process has benefits. One of such being that a lot of things about you will be revealed to you in that time so you can deal with them and be prepared for that outpouring of goodness. You will also get the opportunity of knowing who truly cares about you as you go through the process because success is attractive. Don’t be in a hurry. What is yours can never go to another except you are irresponsible enough to refuse to” step up to the plate.”