Monday, September 17, 2018

God is not a magician

      Imagine being a business owner and you are driving in your car, listening to a sermon.  You are feeling down because your online clothing boutique has hit a dry spell.  It has been weeks since you have received any customers and you are wondering what are you doing wrong?  You have bills to pay, a roof to keep over your head and the cares of your business is weighing heavily on you.  

      As you listen to the sermon, the preacher start prophesying "There is someone driving in their car, listening to this message right now.  You are experiencing a dry spell in your business, and you are feeling down and discouraged.  But the Lord says, do not feel discouraged any longer.  I am turning it around.  I decree this is a new day.  In 30 days you are going to have customers from all over the globe, ordering your products.  What it took you five years to do business wise, you will do within 30 days".  As you hear this Word, you leap in your spirit knowing that God is speaking to you through the preacher.  

    You go home feeling on cloud nine and you turn on your television.  You flip through the channels and come across a woman promoting a book about how she became successful in her business through social media marketing.  You think to yourself, "That's nice, but I am waiting on the Lord to move". 

   Week after week you continue to wait on the Lord to move.  You wait and wait and wait but nothing happens within 30 days.  You are sitting there discouraged and disgusted.  What happened? Why didn't God move.     

   As you think back you remember distinctively that television program you saw with the lady's book.    Could that have been the voice of God speaking to you?  Was your breakthrough in her book?  Suddenly a light bulb comes on in your head and you run down to the bookstore to buy the book.  You apply the marketing principles that the book taught you and within a month's time you begin to see positive changes in your business.  Month after month your business continues to grow as you continue to apply the principles.
  
  The moral of this story is that God's' Word is true but sometimes we think that He is a magician in Heaven granting us our wishes without us making any effort to change.  We hear a word of prophesy and just sit back and wait.  We end up waiting for an indefinite period of time not seeing the manifestation.  

  However, when we receive a prophesy we must first test it by the Bible and once we confirm that it is from God we need to ask for His Wisdom.  How should we move forward in the prophesy?  Are there any action steps we need to take to see it's fulfillment?   Sometimes our answer lies in practical action steps that He wants us to take. 





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