Absolutely not! “That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been.” Whatever God has ordained for you, no one can take it away from you. Only you can block your blessings from God. When we take things out of God’s timing, it will never last. When we go against what God has promised to us, we lose every time. Wait patiently on the Lord, and he will give you your fruits in due season. “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

My brother and sisters in Christ, God requires something of you. But, until you realize what he requires of you, make a promise to serve him faithfully. As we continue to serve God and get more acquainted with him, he will reveal to us just what he requires of us. Learn to be still in God’s presence.

Lord, you have given us good things and we praise you, sometimes, we receive things that seem not so good for us; but help us to understand that you know what is best for us, that you give us our fruits in due season. When we open our hands you fill them with good things, and therefore, whatever comes from you, it is well with you and therefore, we also should accept it and say, it is well, it is well with our soul. Thank you, Lord!

Too many of us go through the storms of life and God shows up in the midst, but, how many of us actually say, “Thank you, Lord, for riding out this storm with me, or, I could not have pulled through without you.” Too many of us saw the handwriting on the wall, or the footprints in the sand, but, we were so overwhelmed with our situation, that we missed the encounter with God. My brothers and sisters in Christ, know that God shows up in unlikely places, he walks with us through all of our dark hills and valleys, and he rides out the storm with us. Let us be thankful that the Lord showed up when he did, being mindful that he did not have to do this, but he did. Thank you, Lord!

We put so much focus on our situation, that, we fail to recognize when the solution comes. What we should be doing instead, is telling our friends and all who will hear, just what the Lord has already done for us, and that we will continue to praise him until he delivers us from whatever we are going through. If we learn to continually count our blessings and praise God in the midst of our struggles, we will find that God takes our yoke upon him and refreshes us. Praise the Lord!

If you have not been receiving the release that comes from God through faith believing, Scripture encourages by the lessons of the faithful, and it tell us, that, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, that we should lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with perseverance, the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, who is the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith.

When God is ready to birth something new in your life, there is no way you could hide from his presence. Remember, that, his eye covers the whole earth and nothing is hidden from him. Let us make ourselves available to God and let him work his purpose out. Amen!

Paul in his letter to the Corinthians reminds us, that, “Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them–yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” Oh, praise the Lord!

“There’s a friend for little children, above the bright blue sky; a friend who never changes, whose love, will never die, our earthly friends may fail us, and change with changing years, this friend is always worthy of that dear Name He bears” – JESUS is with us through every trial we go through, and if we persevere, He will bring us through victoriously.

Be patient in your tribulations. Go through your struggles giving God thanks and praise. Put your troubles aside and help someone else. Continually trust God, even when you fail to see his footprints in the sand. God is always our very present help in times of trouble. Believe! Persevere! Endure! You will secure your place in God’s kingdom.