Our experiences with life
lead us to see and embrace the purpose that we were created for… we were
created to live with purpose. Yet our
experiences, when looked at or dealt with all this in the wrong way, lead us to
lean on ourselves or to think we are hopeless, helpless and headed
nowhere. That could not be more wrong.
We have to look at our
situations of life from God’s perspective.
God brought us this far. Find
your purpose. Make a difference, and God
will bless you in the process.
In fact, we expected to die. But as a
result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who
raises the dead. And he did rescue us from mortal
danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and
he will continue to rescue us. And you are helping us by praying for
us. Then many people will give thanks because God has graciously answered so
many prayers for our safety.
God is our source of
purpose. He gives us a plan. And He gets all, all the glory. How can we give glory to God when our
perspective is all screwed up? We
cannot. We won’t. That is why we have to make things right with
Him.
Paul reminded us that hard
times ought to lead us, as it did him, to stop relying on himself and start
relying on God. Our confidence in Christ
will take us further, will reinforce our purpose and open up more to come!
God is in charge. He has our lives and all things around it in
His control and in His hands. It is time
for us to align our lives with this truth.
That leads us to live a life of giving.
Psalm
146:5 NASB
How blessed is he whose
help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,
Prayer is a big deal. It must be part of our life. Prayer is part of the person who seek God and
want His blessings. Prayer changes
situations, and it may be because it begins by changing us.
Acts
12:5 NASB
So Peter was kept in the
prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.
We must let our situations
keep us from praying. When times are
easy, most people forget to pray or at least don’t make it a priority. When times are tough, we turn to God and
pray. Yet we can learn to make prayer
part of our lives as we learn to lean on God and fully rely on Him.
To pray without expectation is to
misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. -- A W Tozer
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