All Things Are Beautiful In Gods Time [Part 2]

I personally, also have testimonies of God making all things beautiful in His time. One of such testimonies is when my husband and I believed God for $1000 equivalent in our currency (Naira) in the year 1999. Then, that amount was far beyond us but we wanted to exercise our faith. We believed God for a whole year. Every morning during our prayers we would thank God for this provision. Finally, the money came in an amazing way. We were posted to another country and needed money to resettle in the new place. Few hours before our departure, God sent a vessel to bless us with $1000 exactly. I believe that if we received it earlier we would have spent it and still have had challenge financially to resettle in the new place. Gods time was truly the best for us.

Impatience is a destroyer of destinies. Not waiting for Gods time can cost you more than you bargained for. King Saul in I Samuel 13, made an unlawful sacrifice because he couldn’t wait for the man of God to come. This cost him his throne. Also, when Moses went ahead of Gods time to try to save the Israelites, he had to run away for his life (Exodus 2-3). But when it was time according to God, he went as a god to Pharaoh (Exodus 7:1) and delivered the Israelites (Exodus 14:30-31).

Another example of consequences of impatience is when people are suffering in their marriages because they couldn’t wait for God’s intervention any longer. They went ahead to marry their spouses despite all checks in their spirit. Some felt they were getting too old while others made their decisions based on their fleshly desires and not the word of God.

Truly, waiting on God will take faith and a lot of discipline but it’s worth it at the end. You may not know when or how but your latter end will be greater than your beginning. People may mock and laugh at you but if you will trust God and His word, they will turn around to laugh with you like Sarah.  Read more...

All Things Are Beautiful In Gods Time [Part 1]

I have waited for too long for a change yet nothing has happened. I am tired of waiting for Gods time. Will God ever answer this prayer? These and many more are statements you will hear from people who believe God for some things and they are yet to receive them. This article is about Gods timing and that things are really beautiful in His time.

The word of God tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that God made everything beautiful in His time. And as Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, there is time for everything under the heaven. God is a God of purpose and priorities and His end result is always for glory and beauty. God is always working on your behalf. When you think that nothing is happening that’s when God is putting everything together, so that all things will work together for your good. By the time it’s Gods time, everything would have been perfected.  Remember the story of Joseph. He had a dream where he was lord over his brothers but he went from the pit, through Potiphar’s house as a slave, then the prison as a prisoner before he got to the throne (Genesis 37, 39-42). God does not make mistakes. At the end, all things became beautiful in His time for Joseph.

God is the Alpha and the Omega, that is, the beginning and the ending. He knows the end from the beginning. He sees problems that we can’t see. Therefore when God doesn’t answer you immediately, it’s not that He won’t do so (Psalm 37:4) but that there are issues on the way that need to be tackled. Sometimes, it may be that giving you what you want at your time may not be at your best interest. Remember, He is your father and understands His responsibilities as a father.

For instance, a father will never give his six year old son a car to drive even if he has so many cars in his garage. This is purely because he loves him and wouldn’t want him to kill himself. This applies to God too. He loves you and would not want you to crash your destiny or die before your time. That’s why waiting for Gods time is the best.

Now, let’s consider Abraham. Read more...

Following Jesus-Easy or Difficult?

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:  and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”  -  Matthew 11:28-30.

Many people are hesitant to surrender to Christ because they consider following Jesus a difficult thing to do. This thought of theirs is understandable when you see some believing Christians who think so and make it look so too.

Jesus said that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. Easy said than done, I can imagine some people saying in their minds. But Jesus says what He means and means what He says. Numbers 23:19 says, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (KJV)

Following Jesus is an easy thing to do if you totally surrender to Him and truly make Him the Lord of your life.  Like Jesus Christ said, learn of Him and you shall find rest for your soul. The challenge is that we still believe the wrong teachings and want to do things our own way.

When you really get to know Jesus not just as your saviour but as your Lord and friend, you will discover that Jesus yoke is easy indeed. Jesus never asks His own to do what is impossible or difficult to be done. If it is beyond you, He will always make a way of escape for you- (1 Corinthians 10:13). Read more...

How to Access True Success And Fulfilment In Life

Hi Jesus loves you.

This post was written by Ndidi. I believe it will be a blessing to you. Enjoy and God bless you.

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One day, I was reading John 5 and verses 19 and 20 caught my attention:
So Jesus explained himself at length."I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing. (John 5:19-20; The Message).

I began to realize I cannot boast in anything I may have achieved because it is God the father that has enabled me to accomplish. Furthermore, if Jesus who is equally God could acknowledge this, who am I to think I can do good, achieve success and have a great life all by myself? And if God is the enabler, who am I to look down on myself and think I cannot? If I don’t believe I am able, it means I don’t believe in the one who has created me and endowed me with great potentials. I don’t believe in the one who created me and saw that I am good. All I need to do is emulate Christ who only did what he saw his father do.

As I thought of it, I understood that as I look unto God and see, then it means that whatever I see can be done. As I continue to focus on God, then I begin to live in a realm of possibilities. I shall no longer think that anything I see is impossible to achieve.
Indeed you and I are created to do the impossible! All we need to do is focus on God. Whatever we see in the spiritual realm is possible in the physical realm.

Then I imagined - if all God’s children are looking unto him to see what He is doing; will all be seeing the same thing? As I thought of it, the awesomeness of God dawned on me. He is a huge multitasker! He is willing and ready to involve each one of us in all that he is doing. He can attend to all of us and can show us different things at the same time. The difference will be based on each person’s make up and level of relationship with him. 

For instance, if he is healing someone in my vicinity and gets me involved in it, he may be comforting another and gets another child of his involved in the task of comforting at the same time he is involving me in healing.  He may be showing me how he wants to influence the world through me which will be different from what he may show my sister simultaneously. Read more...