We pray for things and expect them to be answered without trying to understand God or how he operates. So we ask the question; Lord, why you didn’t answer my prayer?

God has a way with everything. And if we read his word, he will show us. How can we learn to understand the word of God, if we don’t read it?

God’s ways are not our ways, and his thoughts are not our thoughts. Thank God! He knows what’s best for us.

When you pray for something and God did not give you what you wanted, the problem is not with God, but in your understanding of His deliverance.

Isaiah 55:8 (KJV) – for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) – wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Have you ever lost something of value, and hoped that you could find it?

You get frustrated trying to figure out where and how you lost it. You put on your thinking cap, rewind in your mind where you were, and start back-tracking. All the while you’re searching, you’re not so happy. But, then you find it . . . and your happy and full of joy . . . hoping that you never lose it again!

That’s the way it is with our Heavenly Father. When we put others and things before him, we are lost to this world. We are like lost sheep.

You are valuable to God. When you start seeking God, and His righteousness, He rejoices because his lost sheep is now found!

Luke 15:8-10 (KJV) – either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Most of us live our lives believing we are suppose to live in lack. We want, but we don’t believe it’s God’s will for us to have things.

God’s word says; that we may lack for nothing, and that he came so that we may have life and have it more abundantly. That means, he doesn’t want us lacking. He wants us to ask him for what we want. He also said, He will give us the desires of our heart, if we delight ourselves in him.

None of this sounds like God wants us to live lacking anything. That’s satan trying to make you believe you shouldn’t be blessed.

Don’t believe the lies of satan — Ask God, wait on the Lord, and live your life in abundance! It is God’s will!

I Thessalonians 4:12 (KJV) – that he may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

John 10:10 (KJV) – the thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Luke 11:9 (KJV) – and I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Psalm 37:4 (KJV) – delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Do you hear God speaking to you? Do you hear a voice from within? Do you know if, and when God is speaking to you?

Most believe, if you heard it three times, it’s the truth. Well, that can be misleading. If it’s not the truth of God, it’s the wrong thing.

God has ways of speaking to you. He does it through others, through circumstances, and through His word. You just have to pay attention and hear what God is saying to you.

Mark 4:23-24 (KJV) – if any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what he hear: with what measure he mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

Ok, don’t get in your feelings and get offended . . . but it’s the truth.

We are all liars. And if you say that you are not – that is satan, and you are lying. You are deceiving yourself, and calling God a liar.

Not one of us are good. Not you, not me. Not one. If you are standing or sitting, reading this and say you are good – you are lying. There is nothing good in the flesh. But, we are perfect in God.

We all fall short of God’s glory. That’s why Jesus died for us. Jesus saved us from our sinful ways.

God said it. . . I didn’t.

Thank you Jesus!

I John 1:8-10 (KJV) – if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Psalm 14:3 (KJV) – they are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Deuteronomy 18:13 (KJV) – thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

Psalm 38:3 (KJV) – there is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Romans 3:23 (KJV) – for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

II Timothy 1:9 (KJV) – who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

We try to believe God by what we feel, which is our flesh.

We can be mislead by our feelings. If we go by what we feel, our belief system will be like a dysfunctional thermostat. Hot, cold, just right. Then cold, just right, then hot again. This type of dysfunction, which are our feelings, leads to confusion and frustration.

Most believe, if we don’t feel it, we don’t believe it. Faith is not feelings, but truth. There is no confusion or frustration in truth. Neither can you do anything against the truth.

Our belief system should be trusting in God and in his word. God’s word is the truth. Your faith comes by hearing the word of God. Walk by faith.

I Corinthians 14:33 (KJV) – for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

II Corinthians 13:8 (KJV) – for we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

John 17:17 (KJV) – sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Romans 10:17 (KJV) – so then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

II Corinthians 5:7 (KJV) – for we walk by faith, not by sight.

When we focus on our circumstances, we try to figure it out, and find the glory within ourselves. When we do that, we can never see what God is doing in our lives.

Once you stop focusing on the circumstances, and focus on God, the secret within you will be revealed to you by God, day by day.

Proverbs 25:27 (KJV) – it is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

I Corinthians 14:25 (KJV) – and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

II Corinthians 3:18 (KJV) – but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.