by Dona Hake
Let’s just pretend today. Let’s pretend that it is only five days till Christmas. For all of you that do not love winter as much as I do, this may be hard, but let’s just pretend!!!! Only a few days to go and there is something you have ask for as your Christmas gift and you begin to observe gifts that have your name on it. They are beautifully wrapped with bright bows. Now since we are all grown up, we would never think of picking gifts up and holding them or shaking them a bit…would we??? I am not going to ask for a show of hands, but I know I would!!!!
Many times we know what we have ask for from the Lord and we all know the importance of believing and waiting. When we are in faith it is important that we not judge that things are not happening just because of what we see or do not see. Many times the Lord is beginning to unfold answers to your prayers, but because of our preconceived ideas of how it is going to happen you may miss what He is trying to do in your life. Sometimes the answers to our prayers simply come in a whole different “package” than we expected.
Hebrews 11:1 (TLB)
What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something
we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what
we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.
Hebrews 11:1 (VOICE)
Faith is the assurance of things you have hoped for,
the absolute conviction that there
are realities you’ve never seen.
One thing that we can be assured of is that we need to know that God desires to bless our faith yet He understands more than we will ever know that His timing and our waiting is so important. It is also of great importance that our asking is in line with His will for our lives. Today I encourage you that if you are believing Him for something to wait with an assurance in your heart that He will bless your faith.
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