Sometimes, I feel as though doing a tedious task can just take FOREVER. Sometimes, I have a goal in mind that I am trying to achieve, and there seems to be a million roadblocks in my path. Stones tumbling before me, causing me to believe the path I was following is not open for passage anymore. What do I do when this happens? What does anyone do?
There a couple of different choices when one faces this situation. The first is to turn back from where you came. The second is to step to the left or the right, and take a different path. The third, is to persevere and tell that boulder (mountain) to move out of your way. This is the steadfastness that results in perseverance. Some may call it stubbornness. It is often mistaken for pure foolishness. However, at times, it is the wisest choice. It is the choice that will lead to victory and when I have arrived at the destination, I will receive a reward.
God talks a lot about perseverance in His Word. Perseverance = Not Giving Up! Even in the midst of trial and adversity, one can push forward and believe for greater things ahead. My family has been tested many times in the area of perseverance. We were tested when we heard our middle son was "special needs" and his brain wasn't developing right. We believed he would be completely healed, and he is. We were told that my husband might not ever return to military life. We were encouraged by many to just turn aside and seek another path. Maybe it was not God's will for us. My husband is currently back in the military and doing fine. At the last minute, when we almost gave up, God opened a door and here we are! I was told last year that my heart had two conditions that would prevent me from ever resuming an active physical lifestyle that included many sports and activities that I love. Recently, the doctors declared me completely healed and normal and I was given a full clearance to do anything I want.
Don't get me wrong, there are times when it is wise to turn to the left or right because the path you have taken is not God's way for you. If you are involved in activities that are harming you and clearly go against God's Word in your life, you should turn to the left or right and seek peace with God through the forgiveness provided by Jesus' blood shed on the cross for you. But....if God has spoken something to you and confirmed it through His Word, the church, prayer and circumstances....you should hold onto that thing God has said. Commit your way to the Lord, and He will bring IT to pass. What is IT? Whatever God has spoken to you. The Word says to delight ourselves in Him, and He will give us the desires of our heart. It says this right before it says to "commit your way to the Lord and He will bring it to pass." These two thoughts go directly together in the Bible.
I know some things that Lord has spoken to, and about, my family that have not come to pass yet. I am believing God today that these things will come to pass. God just wants us to persevere, not give up on these things or Him, and commit our way to the Lord. I have a renewed desire to believe God and tell the mountains standing before us to GET UP AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA! Mountains, get out of my way, 'cuz I am coming through!
Lord, may you grant me even more perseverance as I face life's challenges. Give me a spirit that will never give up, no matter the mountains that rise up in front of me. Give me faith to believe that all things are possible through You and nothing is too hard. Give me a heart to pray and a desire to constantly seek Your face, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Let me drink deeply of the Living Water today:
There a couple of different choices when one faces this situation. The first is to turn back from where you came. The second is to step to the left or the right, and take a different path. The third, is to persevere and tell that boulder (mountain) to move out of your way. This is the steadfastness that results in perseverance. Some may call it stubbornness. It is often mistaken for pure foolishness. However, at times, it is the wisest choice. It is the choice that will lead to victory and when I have arrived at the destination, I will receive a reward.
God talks a lot about perseverance in His Word. Perseverance = Not Giving Up! Even in the midst of trial and adversity, one can push forward and believe for greater things ahead. My family has been tested many times in the area of perseverance. We were tested when we heard our middle son was "special needs" and his brain wasn't developing right. We believed he would be completely healed, and he is. We were told that my husband might not ever return to military life. We were encouraged by many to just turn aside and seek another path. Maybe it was not God's will for us. My husband is currently back in the military and doing fine. At the last minute, when we almost gave up, God opened a door and here we are! I was told last year that my heart had two conditions that would prevent me from ever resuming an active physical lifestyle that included many sports and activities that I love. Recently, the doctors declared me completely healed and normal and I was given a full clearance to do anything I want.
Don't get me wrong, there are times when it is wise to turn to the left or right because the path you have taken is not God's way for you. If you are involved in activities that are harming you and clearly go against God's Word in your life, you should turn to the left or right and seek peace with God through the forgiveness provided by Jesus' blood shed on the cross for you. But....if God has spoken something to you and confirmed it through His Word, the church, prayer and circumstances....you should hold onto that thing God has said. Commit your way to the Lord, and He will bring IT to pass. What is IT? Whatever God has spoken to you. The Word says to delight ourselves in Him, and He will give us the desires of our heart. It says this right before it says to "commit your way to the Lord and He will bring it to pass." These two thoughts go directly together in the Bible.
I know some things that Lord has spoken to, and about, my family that have not come to pass yet. I am believing God today that these things will come to pass. God just wants us to persevere, not give up on these things or Him, and commit our way to the Lord. I have a renewed desire to believe God and tell the mountains standing before us to GET UP AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA! Mountains, get out of my way, 'cuz I am coming through!
Lord, may you grant me even more perseverance as I face life's challenges. Give me a spirit that will never give up, no matter the mountains that rise up in front of me. Give me faith to believe that all things are possible through You and nothing is too hard. Give me a heart to pray and a desire to constantly seek Your face, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Let me drink deeply of the Living Water today:
Psalm 37:4-6
New King James Version (NKJV)
4 Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as the noonday.
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as the noonday.
Romans 5:1-4
New King James Version (NKJV)
Faith Triumphs in Trouble
5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have[a] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Deuteronomy 5:32
New King James Version (NKJV)
32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Mark 11:23
New King James Version (NKJV)
23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Matthew 17:20
New King James Version (NKJV)
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;[a] for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
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