A Purpose under HEAVEN!

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1

God's timing-Not one minute early and not a second late.

God permits us with times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change in our lives.
When we wait God's way, we become patient. Patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. It's developed only under trial.

In the book of Exodus we learn that God led the Israelites the longer, harder way on their journey to the Promised Land because He knew they were not yet ready to go in.

During these times of the Pandemic, we are also on a journey, a journey to rediscover ourselves, who we are or whose we are in God. God never failed to take care of the Israelites. God never fails in taking care of us.
We have to trust God with all our heart. When I feel fear, I surrender it to Jesus. I say, ‘Jesus I trust You’. Jesus has taught me, to surrender the situation when it arose and as many times as it did. I do as my Master says. And the beautiful thing about it is, I feel strengthened.

In all this I'm constantly learning. In a difficult moment, it is so difficult not to give in to the fear, but it is precisely that moment of fear itself, that I must trust God. 

The devil likes to hold us to an area of fear. And once there, he likes to play that over and over to gain complete control. But when we surrender that fear to God as many times as it arises, we speak of our trust in God. (The devil has no control, when we surrender a situation to Jesus.) When we speak out our trust in God, we magnify God and not our fear.

God's training period simply requires us to do, what He tells us to do and when He tells us to do it...without questioning or trying to figure everything out. 

When God directs our paths, He leads us in ways that sometimes may not make sense to us, so we're not always going to understand everything. It is, then, that we must Trust God. 

I leave every instance of my life to God. If I walk to the Right, it is with His will, if the Spirit of God says, walk to the Left, then that becomes the way for me to walk on. The spirit of God directs me in everything I do. 

Obedience + TRUST GOD! 

The sooner we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and accept His will, the sooner, God can work His plan in our lives. 

After a seed is planted, there is total darkness and hardness below the ground. The plant has to push its way through. It takes time for this to happen. After we plant seeds of obedience, we feel like nothing is happening. This is the moment, we need to trust God. And like the seed that finally bursts through the ground into a beautiful plant, our seeds of obedience break forth into a beautiful manifestation of God in our lives. 

Everything happens in God’s time! We are not to figure out how, where or when, but to simply Trust in God. 

Often we give up and let failure convince us, God has said no, when in reality He has simply said "WAIT." 

God is ready for us to move ahead but we often think we're unprepared to do something because we lack certain potential. 

God makes us wait, to test our faith in Him and also to prepare us for what He is making us wait for and to develop patience and determination in us. 

In this Pandemic, we have learnt that no matter how powerful and however prepared we thought were were to combat our opposing countries-with the latest technology, when hit with a virus, we remained dumb-founded. Our intelligence is total foolishness to God. 

God is all Wisdom! He created all the things we give ourselves credit for. We need to learn humility. 

I find this behaviour to be absurd, people adding their credentials on the walls, on the table, the door frame, Facebook etc... They are proud of their achievements or accomplishments. 

The will of God for Jesus was fully accomplished in His perfect obedience to the Father. At the moment of Jesus’ utterance, John 19:30 “It is finished,” the power of sin and Satan was finished. This is the accomplishment of Jesus, that through Jesus, the Son of God, we have eternal life. He sacrificed His life with love on the Cross, in a brutal death with all its entrapments for us. 
All we have done, is for ourselves and we over glorify ourselves. What have we ever done for love of Jesus and our fellow brethren? 

Our accreditations don’t say who we are in God, it just speaks for what we have achieved on Earth. God defines us for who we are in Him. 

We must acknowledge, GOD is our All! 

With time and a true repentance, we realize that our lives are nothing without God. Humility teaches us that every answer is always up to God. When the answers are up to God, we pray. To pray we need to trust and surrender to an all wise and loving God. 

In the surrender, we learn with the Spirit of God, to wait in Patience. We learn, OBEDIENCE is a pre-requisite to all of God’s marvellous dealings in our lives. We learn, to love and trust in GOD’s PERFECT TIME!