Trusting God through every season, prayer, and the daily walk of worship.
We can’t brag because we obey God. We can’t brag because we have been assisted to obey or else we would be failures. We can’t brag about patience, because without the Holy Spirit we would have messed up because of impatience. We can’t brag that we easily forget offenses, forgive and move on because it is God empowering us to do it. When God gives an order He empowers you to do what He has ordered!
Abandoning your marriage for an undefined fling? Abandoning a savings plan to gamble and bet? Abandoning the hard-tested road for a shortcut to wealth that ends up being a mirage? Abandoning a safe journey in order to race with other vehicles whose owners and destinations you don’t know? Abandoning healthful living to satisfy a sugar tooth and unhealthy diets? What you abandon and what you prefer reveals that your commitments are either shallow or solidly deep.
In relationships, the little foxes could be some habits that irritate your loved one. Little foxes could be communication problems. Little foxes could be money problems. Little foxes could be other friends who have become a competition for the one we pledged to love. Little foxes could be careless interaction with an ex or potential mates. Little foxes could be bad manners such as never keeping your word or failing to be available on phone or not returning calls.
Enjoy the relationship, don’t wait to enjoy the marriage. Enjoy the studies, don’t wait to enjoy the final results. Enjoy and find satisfaction in what is happening now. King Solomon tells us that this too is from the hand of God.
Even in the second trial of health after wealth was destroyed, Job remained faithful to God. Job never turned away from God. Even though Job lost wealth and health, he remained faithful to God. At last, God rewarded him with a double of everything he lost and more days, Job 42:12-17. Job remained faithful even though it seemed that all was now lost!
A rich person with a fine lifestyle outlook may seem like one who should give more, but God knows that out of bad choices he is in deep debt and the little he gave is the best of his abilities. A young unemployed person who is expected to give too little may give slightly more than expected, and as we congratulate her, God is not pleased, because God knows while she is unemployed, people wooing her have sent her much more monies as gifts than even held in banks by the rich man in debts. Our abilities may not be obvious to people but are well known by God.
Seeking God first so that everything else succeeds, remains the most open functional secret to success that many ignore. Seeking God first is the key to everything else being provided. Do you need everything else? Seek God first!
When you are very clear on what you want, no one will discourage you. He or she who is clear on what they want to achieve, what they are going after, will be unstoppable. We easily get derailed by others because our goals are not clear to ourselves.
When they discovered that David was fit to be a king, God had already anointed David king. When they decided that it was now time for David to be king, they were getting late because God had already chosen David. What they did God had already done!
David was anointed for the third time as king over Israel by the rest of the tribes of Israel. God anointed David first. Judah anointed David as king secondly. Now all of Israel anoints David as their king. What they did God had already done!