Week 71: Back-Up Plan Activated

                                Back Up-Plan—Activated                     

                                                     God is faithful… I Corinthians 1:9

• Plan A. . .

• Plan B. . .

• Plan Z. . .

          Whenever we are in a bind and all our self-made plans are exhausted, God has a back-up plan. He’s just waiting for us to stop spinning our wheels, and trust Him. God might make us wait until the ninth hour, but every waiting hour develops our faith. God knows what He’s doing, and He will activate His plan at the right time.

 About two weeks ago, I had a situation and didn’t see God’s Hand in it until the last day before calamity. We have to come to realize that making us wait until the last minute is one of God’s more popular strategies.

However, sometimes we do see immediate results. We can all agree that there was a time when the three Hebrew boys, faced with the fiery furnace, needed God’s back-up plan activated—IMMEDIATELY. When Daniel spent the night in the lions’ den, he demonstrated not only the need for a back-up plan, but one that would stay activated all night long. If that stone hadn’t hit Goliath in the right spot, at the right time; Goliath would still be laughing.

          Throughout history God’s people have faced atrocious near death experiences. Experiences that far surpasses the most fertile imaginations. Each time, however, God’s faithfulness stood firm as a beacon shining brightly in a misty fog. If we keep our eyes on God, He will guide us through to the other side of our impossible situations.   

      Although, it’s going to take eyes of faith to see His Guiding Light through all the fear and mess. Pilots flying airplanes should be experts at letting go and relying on something outside of themselves. When they look out and can’t see anything for all the cloud cover, they might as well have their eyes closed. They have to depend on the plane’s instruments to locate their whereabouts.

 We have to rely on our faith in God for our whereabouts. There are times when we are just as lost as lost can be. That’s when we have to know: At the perfect time, God’s Back-up Plan will be—Activated!

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Week 70: THE Signature

                                         THE Signature

   A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness breathes out falsehoods, Proverbs 14:5 (AMP).

• Sign on the dotted line. . .

• Sign by the “x”. . .

• Sign next to your name. . .

         

   Some things we can just look at, listen to, or taste, and know the person who’s behind it. No one else can do it the way they can. Their uniqueness can only be admired, but never duplicated. It could be baking a cake, ironing a shirt, designing a suit, painting a picture, etc. When they produce their craft, it’s bares their signature.

         

          When I pray, I often find myself asking God to not only answer my prayer, but to sign it. That’s my way of saying, I want His Glory to shine so brightly that no one can take credit for His Miracle Working Power. I want skeptics to undoubtedly know and PLAINLY see: God’s Signature on it.

       

        I know they might not accept Him as their Savior, but I have a problem when people sign their name to the works of God.  

If it upsets me, imagine how it displeases God. He will not share His Glory with anyone, (Isaiah 42:8). But, we who are in Christ, must allow God to use us as His mouthpiece. Whenever the miraculous happens, we have to let people know:

                       Uh, excuse me, but that was God!     

         

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Week 69: Costumes

               Costumes

                                   Beloved, do not put faith in every spirit… I John 4:1.

• Mask. . .

• Disguise. . .

• Facade. . .

          We have to be careful not to be deceived by a person’s outwardly appearance, or by their job description, or by their good standing in society, or not. In other words, don’t be misled by the costumes people wear. My sister, Charmaine, told me that everybody has on a costume.

         We have to look beyond the obvious, and trust our faith to take a look at the spirit within. Who is this person anyway? We pay too much attention to the costume a person is wearing. I wonder how many people have married the wrong person, and overlooked the right person by looking at the costume they had on?  

          How many angels have we bypassed because they didn’t have on the “right” costumes? How many blessings have we overlooked because we misjudged the person carrying the miracle? People look on the outwardly appearance, but God sees the inner man (I Samuel 16:7). One of our daily prayers should be: Lord, please give me discernment, so I won’t be deceived by a person’s costume. Help me not to judge people for I am not qualified to do so.    

         It’s really amusing when we view the world as having on these costumes. Yes, the judge sitting behind the bench, the professor lecturing to students, and the banker granting or denying loan application are respectable people. But, who are these people without their costumes? When I retired from being a school principal, I started thinking: What kind of costume will I wear now? Hmmm!

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