There is more to our lives than for us to make money, live and die. I still can't understand why so many people take life too seriously as though they will exist forever. It doesn't mean we can't hold ourselves to certain standards, I am only talking about those who just want to live for themselves sometimes. Of course, I won't blame anyone because we are shaped by how we see life and we all have different exposures.
God's great plan is backed up by great challenges but the thing is, it's not all the time that the things we go through come from God. Most of them are caused by us. We always blame the devil when things go wrong. We also blame God for most things too while we fail to retrace our steps and understand that we have a part to also play.
When you choose to go your way at the expense of what God wants you to do, you won't only cause problems for yourself but those around you. We saw that with the case of Jonah in the Bible. He ran from God and caused great turmoil for those in the boat until he was tossed into the sea.
Sometimes when we go astray and do things our way, God always finds a way to restore us. The moment we go back to His original plan, things would still work out for us and that's God's mercy. Behind God's seeming frown hides His smiling face. God always make a way of escape for us because He knows everyone. God preserves us because He has a plan for us. As long as you are alive, there is a plan for you. God never want us to get into hopeless situations. If you are in a hopeless situation, just know that you are in the wrong, somewhere. Find your path by going back to God. (I was wrong here because what's applicable to Jonah wasn't applicable to Job and it's wrong to judge both situations as one without understanding the peculiarity of it. Sometimes we are tested to build up strength, it doesn't necessarily have to do with what we have done wrong)
When you feel hopeless, down and rejected, the first point of contact is to look up; pray. When you fall, fall on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. It takes someone to look up to overlook what he or she is going through. Looking up means you have a positive mindset about what you are going through. Rather than tell God how big your problems are, tell your problems how big your God is.
With a positive attitude, you can approach the throne of mercy to pray. Never let your challenges make you forget how to pray. Prayer is a way you get involved in what's happening. Don't just pray one-off but pray persistently. The situation we find ourselves in life demands we get out of that pit and it takes consistency.
Pray passionately. In times of crisis that's when to pray. The time of pain is not when to play. Most people just throw in the towel when the battle gets hot but that's when to fight, that's when to strategize, that's when to trust God even more because He might lead you around but He would never lead you wrong. All things work together for Good...
Most people only focus on the problems they are faced in life without identifying what caused them. You can't find a solution to the problems without understanding the cause of the problems. Identify the cause. Work on it until you name it. You can only pray passionately on what you have a name to - what you know is the issue. Prayer requires directness and not beating around the bush. How would you not pray amiss if you don't even know what you are praying about?
Pray for specific help and pray the Word of God. Search for the Word that is peculiar to your case and declare it. When you speak it long enough, it enters into your subconscious and starts to manifest. It's just like when you are calling a child or someone...they gravitate towards the direction of where they are hearing the voice. Whatever you are calling is coming, you just have to grow in faith to accommodate it. Speak God's Word back to Him because He honours His Word more than His name. His Word will never go without achieving the purpose for which it has been sent.
Our Christian journey is all about faith. Faith in prayer, faith even in worship or gratitude to God when we have received what we asked and when we are still waiting for the manifestations of those things. Express gratitude to God for answered prayers and even the ones you are yet to receive. Gratitude is like an application for the next thing. He who can't be faithful in that which is little cannot be faithful in what's much. It's only when you express gratitude to God can you trust Him for bigger things because you can see how He came through for you and you can trust Him that He can do it again, bigger and better.
Life to me is centered around God. He is at the beginning, at the end and even at the center of it all. In Him I live, I breathe and have my being. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ because it is the power of God unto salvation. How can I claim to believe in God and not show it to those around me by the fragrance of my goodness? God is love, so let us throw kindest around like confetti.
Thank you for your time.
My pen doesn't bleed, it speaks, with speed and ease.
Still me,
My tongue is like the pen of a ready writer.
Olawalium; (Love's chemical content, in human form). Take a dose today: doctor's order.