I wasted so much time griping and complaining about things that were not going right in my life. When things started to go wrong, I began to have a pity party, in the midst of my troubles. I wanted everything to work out MY way. I was blinded by the troubles I was experiencing, and giving into despair. I was so blinded by my own circumstances that I did not even stop to think of how God planned to use the pain for my benefit. It is so easy to get distracted by what we may be facing any given moment, that we lose sight of where God is trying to take us. As a result of such hard times, we stall our own breakthrough and entry into the very next season of our lives. These setbacks cause our setups to take longer and longer to reach us. Because we have to wait so long, we become impatient, distracted, and filled with despair and unbelief, tired of suffering. It becomes an unhealthy cycle that the enemy uses as a mind game
on us, to keep us from getting to where God wants us to be, keeping us from ever reaching the fullest in our potential (for God's purpose for our lives).
And because we are angry with God,and how long the process is taking for us to find or get better, we resort to our own efforts of trying to fix the pain, problem, etc. When we do this, the ending result becomes bad decision-making, which takes us farther from where God is trying to lead us to. And by the time that we catch on to what the enemy is doing, and after we have had to confess and repent (and have to start over!), we have missed the ordained moment where God was about to propel us to where He wanted us to go. The enemy always knows exactly when and how long to attack us, just to get us off course-farther away from the will of God. He wants us to constantly be filled with doubts and despair about our trials and tribulations in this life. He wants us to constantly try to fix things with our own efforts, doubting that God will take care of us. He wants this because he knows that we are to, "let go, and let God". And each time we fail that command, we set ourselves back from the blessing!
But, once I found out that the miracles of my life were not in the power of my own hands, that they came from the almighty power of God's hands, my entire focus changed! Once I realized that my purpose on this Earth was not what I wanted to be, but it was who God called me to be, I realized that the key to my greater was not the usual complaining and griping, as I was accustomed to doing. I realized that the power to release heavenly breakthroughs in my life was through making a joyful noise to the Lord, regardless of the circumstances that I was facing in life. I learned that the key to changing my current situation was through thankfulness and gratefulness. I learned to worship, while I was wounded! Then, I began to see the absolute overflow of God! "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God". (Philippians 4:6)
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