“He is patient with you”. When we pray to the Lord for help or anything, He answers that prayer right away. There’s no ocular proof of answered prayer when you pray, so that’s where faith and patience should be holding hands very tightly until the answer is a reality in this realm. “…..Through faith and patience we obtain the promises of God”. God’s timeline is different from ours. We are of the microwave generation because we want it now, and don’t want to wait any longer than we have to. The way to understand how God moves on our behalf is, He’s aligning things behind the scenes to have a domino effect of blessings. Many times our answered prayer comes as a multifold blessing to not only help you, but someone else who may have been hurting. He’s patient because first of all he wants everyone to be a part of His family, and many people need time to decide if they want God. He knows when we need more time to figure stuff out. Sometimes we need more time to hit bottom so we know what we’ve been doing all along doesn’t work. God’s not slow, He’s merciful.

“For we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world”. There is another world just like in the movies concerning life. All ideas come from the imagination of mankind and the motivation behind it is either good or evil. Two rules are in effect on planet earth, that of this present world rulership which temporarily belongs to Satan, and the unseen rulership of God. Satan’s rulership is forced upon us, but God’s rulership is not. Our fight in life isn’t really with people, but the unseen forces driving people in ways that are not wanted. The distractions in life are geared towards keeping you hidden from God’s rulership. God’s rulership can overrule Satan’s as we spend the time necessary to achieve that. Pray for the deliverance of those you know have serious issues, more than likely there’s an evil entity behind the scenes of the person’s life, and it’s out to harm them and ultimately seek their demise. Take the fight to the spirit realm.

“(Not in your own strength) for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure”. When we allow God to do His thing in us, it’s a win win for you and God. He gets pleasure out of it, and you’ll be prosperous in all you do. His good pleasure means an abundance of good living for you. He goes before us and makes all the crooked places straight when we include Him in our everyday lives. Our own strength can wane after a while, but God’s strength working in you is more than enough. How to get His strength on the scene is the same way we get anything from God, spend more time with Him in prayer and His word. “Meditate in this word day and night and you’ll make your own way prosperous”. Those are God’s words for success in life on planet earth.

“If someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.” Shying away from your hope as a believer is like denying Jesus. Our faith is built on the Rock Christ Jesus, not to have a solid answer for someone when asked about your hope as a believer gives you a picture of your maturity in Christ, or lack of knowledge who you are supposed to be. When we give a right now word to someone, by way of witnessing, it could be the words to stay the hand of unnecessary trouble in their life or even their demise. The Christian believer should have a ready word to help in their mouth, in season or out of season. Always be ready and prayed up. We are the salt of the earth but when we have lost our salt content we are useless to help. Stay salty for Jesus my friends.

When You Pray

When you pray heaping up phrases, multiplying words, repeating the same words over and over, that’s not necessary. We don’t want to follow some theologians with the idea of big words being the only way to get to God in prayer. Simply talking to God like you’d talk to another person will do the job. He honors heart felt genuine prayer, not the slickness of fancy words. That’s why God comes through for many people when they’re desperate and don’t know where to turn for help, and He answers that prayer. When we pray according to His will we know He hears us, and since we know He hears us, we know we have the petitions we’ve asked of Him. He knows what you need before you pray, our part is to pray from the heart believing we’ve received the moment we pray. After you’ve prayed, watch your words, they must line up with what you’ve prayed for or you negate the prayer. Faith is the hand that takes from God. Pray in faith believing, and you’ll get it. Sometimes the answer is slow in coming, and that’s where patience is most necessary.