SHARE THIS POSTWhen the enemy comes in, the Bible says in John 10:10 that, “He Comes In Like A Thief To Steal, To Kill, And To Destroy, To Steal Your Hopes, To Shatter Your Dreams, To Destroy This Abundant Life That God Has Given You.” We must realize who’s doing that. It wasn’t God who stole your child. It wasn’t God who stole your job. Oftentimes it is the enemy that comes in and gets you to curse God.
Remember that with Job? His wife and friends thought that God had not only stalled Job’s engine, but that the Lord had thrown his car into reverse. His wife told him to curse the Lord and die (Job 2:9). His friends told him that his sins had caught up to him. Eventually, righteous Job even questioned God’s place in His life, whether or not the Lord was just. But none of them could grasp the full picture – it wasn’t God trying to kill him but the enemy at work trying to destroy Job. And, all the time, God’s hand was on Job, to bring him through the trials of suffering to a fuller life (Job 42:12). It’s true for you, too! “God came that you might have life and for your joy to be full.” God’s going to shift you into another gear, and you are going to be able to bless other people by telling your story.
Consider my friend Wayne. He’s able to help stroke victims and tell them, “Guess what? I’m 100% again because I made a decision that if God be for me who and what can be against me?” (Romans 8:31) That’s the truth, isn’t it?! That we would look to the one who delivers us. That we would look to Jesus hanging on a tree on a hillside called Calvary to empower us to shift into a new gear and move over into a new lane.
But sometimes we get stuck in a rut, don’t we? We’re cruising along when suddenly we find ourselves off the side of the shoulder. Have you ever done that? You kind of drift off in your thoughts and you are like, “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” The sound of your tires rubbing across the divots wakes you up.
Let this be a wakeup call for you today. Have you learned to live with that disease? Have you learned to live with that poverty mentality? Listen, God wants you to learn to live without it. He wants to shift you into a new gear, but we must live expectantly and in faith. Take time to listen to other people’s stories of how God changed their life. God is not a respecter of persons. What He has done for them He is going to do for you. He said in 2 Corinthians 2:14, “Now Thanks Be Unto God Which Always Causes Us To Triumph.” We’re over-comers. Why did God call us over-comers? Because He knew there were going to be obstacles in the way that we were made to overcome.
I believe God is going to supernaturally switch the gears in your life and take you to places you never thought possible. God tells us in Isaiah 43, “I’m About To Do A New Thing.”
