There's a song I like to listen to, and this is what it says: "He is watching over me, and even when I cannot see, he's already planning my victory!"
We have alluded in our blog to some trials our family has been going through. Some have been going on so long that we have just become accustomed to them, as though they could never change. In fact, the Holy Spirit has convicted me of praying for something that I didn't really want. If that sounds a little weird, let me explain. I started out, some years back, of praying for this dire situation, which, as time went on, only continued to get worse. For a long time, my heart was broken. Then my heart began to harden, to a certain extent. I came to expect and accept that the situation was bad and there wasn't much I could do about it. And it wasn't as though I was just letting it go and giving it to The Lord; it was like I just didn't care anymore!
But I continued to pray, sort of.
Then came a new challenge to our faith. A seemingly sudden crisis came into our lives. My heart was stirred to pray for this new situation, but I continued to pray for the other, but in sort of a ho-hum, "oh, and by the way..." sort of way. That's when I heard the Holy Spirit say, "You don't want it to change. You are only pretending when you tell me you do." Whoa! He really can see our hearts, even when we don't see it ourselves! "If you say, we knew it not; does not He who ponders the heart consider it? and He who keeps your soul, does not He know it?" Prov. 24:12 " Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked ways in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Ps. 139:23-24
It took several weeks for us to see change in that new situation, but we knew that God was on the job, or as He said to me in my spirit, "I've got it all under control." It has taken several years to see changes in that old situation, but He also has that "under control."
I want to encourage you that whatever your situation, keep trusting Him, with a pure heart! He is indeed, "planning your victory!"
We have alluded in our blog to some trials our family has been going through. Some have been going on so long that we have just become accustomed to them, as though they could never change. In fact, the Holy Spirit has convicted me of praying for something that I didn't really want. If that sounds a little weird, let me explain. I started out, some years back, of praying for this dire situation, which, as time went on, only continued to get worse. For a long time, my heart was broken. Then my heart began to harden, to a certain extent. I came to expect and accept that the situation was bad and there wasn't much I could do about it. And it wasn't as though I was just letting it go and giving it to The Lord; it was like I just didn't care anymore!
But I continued to pray, sort of.
Then came a new challenge to our faith. A seemingly sudden crisis came into our lives. My heart was stirred to pray for this new situation, but I continued to pray for the other, but in sort of a ho-hum, "oh, and by the way..." sort of way. That's when I heard the Holy Spirit say, "You don't want it to change. You are only pretending when you tell me you do." Whoa! He really can see our hearts, even when we don't see it ourselves! "If you say, we knew it not; does not He who ponders the heart consider it? and He who keeps your soul, does not He know it?" Prov. 24:12 " Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked ways in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Ps. 139:23-24
It took several weeks for us to see change in that new situation, but we knew that God was on the job, or as He said to me in my spirit, "I've got it all under control." It has taken several years to see changes in that old situation, but He also has that "under control."
I want to encourage you that whatever your situation, keep trusting Him, with a pure heart! He is indeed, "planning your victory!"
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