What the Enemy Meant for Bad God Will use for Good

There are times where things happen and I just don’t understand the point.  Like things that seem to derail you, throw you off, or just completely put your world into a whirlwind.  A job loss, a death in the family, a failure or the end of a relationship.  These are all things that effect us and may cause us to loose track of the thing God’s purposed us to do.  Have you ever experienced the negative thing and found in the end it was the best thing that could have happened to you at the time.  A few months ago I was  forced out the door of a company I hated.  At the time I didn’t really know where my income would come from or how I’d make it but I knew when I left the office that something better was on the way.  I knew that it was a stepping stone to greater.  By the end of that week I had a new job at a new company that recruited and welcomed me.  This happens often but when we aren’t in prayer, reading God’s Word and faithful in His Word it’s easy to look at the what the world says should happen and make that your outcome.  There are numerous stories in the bible about God using someone who wasn’t supposed to do “God’s Work” to do great things. Paul one of the first leaders of the church persecuted Christians before his conversion and Moses a slave led a nation to freedom.  God has the ability to use everything for his work.  I spent a year running from something great he had for me and because I wasn’t obedient to what God told me I may have lost that great thing.  I know even in this his will be done.  See God’s will is perfect it’s when we allow ours to supersede that we pay for it in sacrifice.  It’s really arrogant to think that we could do something better than God yet we do it all the time.  We move and make decisions that are on our own accord and so often we cost ourselves the “greater.” I know in the future I want to wholly submit to him.

In every situation God will get the glory in my life.  In trying to do things on my own I’ve allowed the enemy to limit my blessing and to take things away from me.  I’ve foolishly believed that second best was alright.  Well prayerfully I am living victoriously in Christ’s name.  Even now in the midst of my current storm I’m praising God all the way through because I know sunshine is on the other side of this storm.  In the words of Marvin Sapp… “I’m stronger, I’m wiser, I’m better, much better, when I look back over all you brought me through I can see you’re the one I held on too”, “I never would have made it, never could have made it without You.”

Stay Strong…