THE DECLARATION OF FAITH
I
declare that God is bringing about new season of growth. You will not get
stagnant and hold on to the old. You will be open to change knowing that God
has something better in front of you. New doors of opportunity, new relationship,
and new levels of favour are in my future.
Sometimes the
very things that we fight against, the very things that we think are trying to
pull us down, are actually the hand of God trying to push us into a new season.
God will stir us out of comfortable situations and He’ll put us in situations
that make us stretch-situations that force us to use our faith. We may not like
it. It may be uncomfortable. But God loves you too much to just leave you
alone.
Just as God
can supernaturally open doors, sometimes He may supernaturally close doors.
Nothing happens by accident. God is directing each of your steps. That means if
a friend does you wrong, if you go through setback, if you lose a loved one,
you can either embrace that change and God will use it to take you higher, or
you can resist it and you’ll end up becoming stagnant and settling for
mediocrity.
Stay open
for change. Don’t approach change from a negative point of view. All change is not
bad. It may be negative on the surface but remember, God would not allow it if
He didn’t have a purpose for it. He will use it to stretch you and to hopefully
push you into a new dimension. You may be in a perfectly fine situation for
years, but all of a sudden you will see a stirring taking place.
May be you
thought you’d be in your job for another twenty years, but for some reason the
people who were behind you are not behind you anymore. You don’t have the
favour you once had there. It seems like every day is an uphill battle. What is
that? That’s God stirring things up.
It’s easy to
become negative or bitter: “God, why is this happening? I thought I had your
favour.” But a much better approach is to just stay open and know that God is
still in control. If you will embrace that change, the winds that you thought
would defeat you will actually push you to your divine destiny.
Maybe you
are in a relationship, and deep down you know the person is not good for you. You
know this individual is keeping you from being your best. But you may think, If
I make a change I will be alone. You don’t want to rock the boat. That’s
why sometimes God will turn the boat over. God may force you to move forward,
not because He’s mean, not because He’s trying to make your life miserable, but
because he has such a great desire to see you reach your full potential.
So at times
He may cause a friend to walk away. He’ll stir things up and may even allow a
friend to do you wrong, because He knows if He doesn’t close that door you will
never move ahead. Thirty years later that person would still be dragging you
down, keeping you from your destiny. God would not have stirred it up if He
didn’t have something better in store. Don’t fight change; embrace it, and you
will step into the fullness of what God has in store for you.
God bless you
By William Augustine
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