It takes a lot of courage to
succeed when one is walking with God. For every believer who has decided to go
forward this year, you need courage; courage which comes from meditating on
God’s word day and night and then living in obedience to that word. Even just
ignoring the haters takes courage. Did you know that there are haters in our
midst? They are believers too but they must be some of the wolves in sheep’s
clothing and on assignment from hell to frustrate the true ‘sheep’ from
fulfilling their destinies. These haters
would gossip, say hateful/hurtful untruths about you but you must be courageous
enough to ignore them and keep with the business of going forward. They want
you to either fall back or remain stagnant; if you keep stopping for or looking
back at them, you won’t go forward.
Ecclesiastes 11: 4
“Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud,
they never harvest.”
The heart of man is deceitful, and
has great capacity to think up vile things. Only through the Holy Spirit can it
be controlled. So, other than to pray, there’s nothing you can do to fix another
person’s evil heart. All your efforts to reach them will only be explained away
by their hearts. You will be wasting valuable time, effort and spiritual energy
that should add to taking you forward. An evil heart can only see or hear evil
in all that you do or say. If you are reading this blog and you know your heart
gets vile, it is time to make the required effort to fix it; and no one else
needs to know, just be true to yourself.
Jeremiah 17: 9 “The
human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who
really knows it?
If when people share their dreams
with you, you become envious or feel like pulling them down, then you have a
problem you need to deal with. It is important how your heart responds when
people share their great testimonies and/or dreams. You can’t ignore that
response if it is vile. The problem with life is that you will ultimately not
go forward if you don’t want other people to go forward. You may think you are
ahead until you find that whilst you are still on the same spot, the others
have caught up with you and even moved on ahead of you. It is time for heart examination
again. Don’t let your heart deceive you. It’s a trick of the devil. If it’s
bad, fix it. It’s never too late to fix to do so. If you tell yourself the
truth, you can with God’s help submit that heart to the control of the Holy
Spirit.
Isaiah 50: 7
“Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I
have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will. And I know that I
will not be put to shame.”
When you think about it, selling
Joseph to the Egyptians was not the smartest way to keep him from realizing his
dreams; but evil minds come up with the silliest of ideas. It would have been
easier to control Joseph’s life if he was with them and under their control.
Selling him off albeit as a slave, was giving him an opportunity to be free from
them and then attain to the heights that was his destiny. Unfortunately for
them, all their effort to prevent themselves from bowing to him only made them
end up bowing to him many years after. For such is the power of God. In trying
to kill the dream, they actually prepared the way for its physical
manifestation. Keep running; don’t stop! The haters don’t know this but they are
working to ensure you fulfill your destiny.
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