Hard to believe
that we’re in the last month of another great year! For some of you, it may not
have been the best yet but we still have time to declare our way to a
flourishing finish.
A mature Christian
is someone who knows how to wait expectantly with a good attitude. Often, we
don’t get what we want according to our own timeline. It is those who wait patiently till the end will inherit God’s promises.
When God puts a dream or a desire in your heart, you have to believe in that
promise stronger than any circumstances that may indicate otherwise. It is
called faith.
Your medical
report may look impossible. The debt may look insurmountable. The job opportunity
may not have come to you yet. Your children may look as lost as a heathen. The
person of your dream is nowhere in sight. All
the odds maybe stacked against you but know this – if God has spoken it, He
will also bring it to pass. You may not see how but He will make up the
commission for the whole year. In my language there is a saying, “When God gives He gives outrageously!”
This is what
happened to Peter in the Bible. He was a professional fisherman. Along with his
associates, he had toiled all night. They had caught nothing! In the middle of
their deepest despair, Jesus showed up. He instructed them to cast their net in
a specific place. I can hear the fishermen whispering among themselves, “We’re professional at this. Who does He
think He is? Why don’t you stick to your teaching and let us do the fishing?”
Thank God Peter didn’t act on his thoughts. He obeyed and cast the net at the promise
Jesus made. They caught so much fish that their nets were breaking. They hauled
two boats load of fish!
Friend, you maybe
toiling all year for your “catch” but
don’t give up now. If you don’t get discouraged and keep a thankful attitude,
God still has a whole month to shift things in your favor. You must have
unshakable faith in the promise of God. The legal battle may have dragged on
but there’s a flourishing finish waiting for you. The debt may have slowed you down
but you’re going to come out of it. The market may have been more down than up
but your stock is going to roar. The house will sell more than you were asking
for. Focus on God’s ability and not on
your circumstances. When you magnify God, He will do amazing things beyond
your wildest dream!
The key to getting over our problems is to declare victory before we ever get there. Our words have creative power to establish what we speak. The Bible says, you shall decree (declare) a thing and it shall come to pass. Of course, we have to take corresponding actions to what we’re saying. But when we speak out God’s promises, we breathe life to the dreams and visions God put in our hearts.
When I was in
school, my friend Dhiraj fell in love with a young girl. They’re too young to
get married. Back then, in our culture, the relationship between a girl and a
boy had to be kept secret. But my friend was so in love that he made his
intentions known to everybody. Soon Dhiraj was called to the principal’s
office. While the girl was a genius, my friend was the opposite. But he had one
thing going for him. He had made up his mind to marry this brilliant girl. The
whole school was against him. They were forced to be separated. Dhiraj never
lost the vision of marrying the girl of his dream. He kept declaring how he was
going to marry his girl. Today they’re a happy family, living their dream.
Friend, what is
your dream? What are you believing God for? What is the desire your heart? Don’t
look at the bigness of your problem; instead shift your focus on the bigness of
your God. Don’t pay attention to how you feel or what you see. Everything is
subject to change in an instant. If God has said it, He will also bring it to
pass. This December, declare your way to victory! I’m praying for you.
“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go,
throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes
that what they say will happen, it will be done for them” (Mark 11:23 NIV).
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