Happy New Year! Thank you for
continuing to read my blog in this New Year. I want to thank you again because
you are the reason God has allowed me do this. The mere fact that you are
reading this also tells me that God has been good to you in bringing you into
2014. Even if you are not in the state you would like to be in right now, you
are at least well enough to read this blog and for that, we must give God the
glory. Let me assure you that as long there is life, there is the possibility
of a new beginning and/or hope. Please take that opportunity, trust Him again
for a new beginning. Today I write for every one that has trusted God for so
many new beginnings and yet don’t think they have had any new beginning in a
long time, please believe again and strengthen your hope.
Philippians 3: 13
“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one
thing: forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.”
It is a new year and another year
to press forward. I know you might be tired of pressing; could even be because
you have pressed so many times and never really gone forward. You may even be
wondering why you should try again. You are probably tired of hearing people tell
you to believe again but you have to. I can imagine how tired you are and maybe
rightly so; but it’s not your strength you need to try. You have tried to
believe for too long in your strength; please ask for grace. The grace of God
is in abundance for us to lean on to carry us through. Apart from encouraging
yourself to believe, you also have to learn to lean on God for grace to trust
again. The fact that it hasn’t happened all this time does not mean it will
never happen except and only if God has told you that it can never happen.
1 Kings 18: 43
“Then he said to his servant, ‘Go and look out toward the sea.’ The servant
went and looked, then returned to Elijah and said, ‘I didn’t see anything.’
Seven times Elijah told him to go and look.”
To see that promise you have
trusted God for fulfilled, you may have to forget past disappointments. You may
have to forget the number of years you have believed, the pain from
disappointment that came with realizing that it wasn’t happening and having
people make fun of you for believing; then set your eyes on God who has the
power to bring to pass that which He has promised. Thoughts from the past don’t
just disappear; they struggle to remain so as to hold you bound to the past. It
has to be your decision to put the past behind you. Every time they try to
return, you have to insist that those are not the thoughts you want to think,
cast them out and focus on the thoughts you want to think.
Proverbs 3: 5
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.
Please remember that God is our
focus as we trust again. Don’t look out for signs that will tell you whether or
not that which you have trusted for is about to happen. God does not have to
work in the same way always nor does He have to leave signs that show He is
about to do something; sometimes He moves suddenly to bring to pass His word so
we are not allowed to lean on our understanding. He does not always have to
work in the same way. He has been known to send rain even without clouds. If we
keep looking out for the signs, we may get very discouraged and not see the
promise fulfilled; as the hymn writer says, He moves in a mysterious way His
wonders to perform. Have a blessed 2014.
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