Last week, I asked God to go back to waking me up with thoughts to share. While I’ve been coming up with topics over the last few months, I’ve missed the early, wee hours of the morning where the world was completely still. Last night, yet again, I prayed for a topic to share. I woke up some time after 2, and finally begrudgingly got out of bed. You see, I love to sleep, but this seems more important. I didn’t have a topic, but I’ve learned to get up anyway and exercise faith, the topic has always eventually come.
Except now. I grabbed my bible, opened it, read the passages that they opened to, and nothing. Nothing came, I sat with my phone and started writing, but only a few words came. I eventually turned the lights back off and climbed back into bed. I started considering what just happened.
Have you ever asked God for something specific, expecting a certain response?
That’s what just happened with me. He didn’t respond the way He has in the past. But what did I get from it? I got led to Psalms 105, where it talked about God keeping His promises, and another passage that is personal to me. I opened my phone to a tag on instagram where I was reminded that I needed to seek God first. While they weren’t topics for me to share on, they were answers to my personal prayer. So, these are the two things I’ll leave with you. Whatever you are trusting God for, remember the following: He wants you to seek Him first, AND God keeps His words. Please read Psalms 105, it details that no matter how long God takes, when He makes a covenant, He will bring it to pass, even through unusual situations.
Joseph had to be sold into slavery and put into prison for his dreams of his family bowing down to him to come true, many many years later. While his father and brothers could not have seen such an outcome, God had given him those dreams. He could have gotten frustrated as he waited out his time in prison, but he didn’t. God had a purpose in his pain.
I don’t know what you are trusting God for, but He knows, and He’s asking you not to give up. He’s reminding you that there is purpose in your pain.
God answers. I had given up on coming up with a topic, and it would have been the first time that I had given up sleep willingly and not have had a topic to share, but God has answered, as I came and laid down. Don’t give up.
Dear Heavenly Father, sometimes we feel that our tasks are too much and we want to give up, please help us to understand that there is purpose in what we go through. Help us to learn our lessons so that we don’t have to wander around the desert for 40 years on a trip that could have taken 11 days because we are not learning the things that we need to know. Help us to submit to your will for our lives.