Delay is not denial

 

Anchor Scripture: 

For i know the plans i have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.(Jeremiah 29:11)

Has your Abba Father given you a promise that has yet to be fulfilled? 

Perhaps while reading this anchor scripture some time back you suddenly started having hope about your future because of what God promised, 

 But:

• Still this hope of yours is yet to come into reality.

• Still this hope of yours is yet to become real in your face.

• Still this hope of yours is confined to the walls of your dreams and expectations.

You then begin to question yourself: 

 • Was this all real from the beginning?

•  Did God really mean what he said?

• Was God really talking about me?

If truly all these are real,

• Where then are the promised blessings?

Some time back i had a conversation with an amiable friend of mine and she was also in the exact situation a lot of us are, but after a while of contemplation and revelation she realized that: "Delay really isn't denial"

Joseph who later became the Prime minister of Egypt was given a promise by God that one day he would rule.

 But it took 13 years for the promise to be fulfilled in his life, in fact during those 13 years everything and everyone went totally opposite to  the promise of God in his life.

Imagine, just imagine, 13 years!!!

I am sure :

• He was on the verge of losing hope and faith in God, 

• He was on the verge of giving up on the dreams he had long ago,

•  He was on the verge of discarding the promises of God in his life.

TO BE HONEST, 13 years is enough to make you give up...

But instead of Joseph doing that he held on tightly to the promises of God, Joseph allowed no self pity or bitterness rob him of his joy. Neither did he allow his present circumstances to shape his future!

And that is exactly the message from today's devotion: 

You see fam, instead of us using our delayed promise as a reason to grumble against God or get sad, let's use it as a source of courage and strength. 

Let go of all the expectations of "how" and "when" God would fulfil that promise in your life, just hold on tightly to the promises, never letting go. 

Do not doubt it! God has a good plan for your life, do not let current situations or rejections change that. Your Abba Father has a good plan for you!

• A good plan for your academics.
• A good plan for your physical life.
• A good plan for your social life.
• A good plan for your family.

Dear family, "A delay is never denial", but a time of preparing you for the promise. I know it is very hard when we cannot “see” God in action, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t acting on our behalf.

 I am sure there may have been times while he was in prison that Joseph quietly called out to God for strength.

It’s okay to do the same.😊

But just like Joseph, i want us to never give up on God because ― he also will never give up on you. 

Prayer: Dear God, purify my heart of every self pity and resentment, from now onwards give me the grace to trust that your good plan for my life is being carried out already. Help me to be patient and to be able to endure until i see the evidence of your promises in my life.

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