Have you ever felt that God does not answer your prayers? You keep praying and praying about a particular thing but nothing happens. At least we think nothing happens.
What I have found is that God is working every day in my life but I fail to see it a lot of times. What we do is take for granite all the good that comes our way. We don’t realize the good things are blessings from God. We tend to look for big things rather than seeing all things. If the blessing isn’t big we think of the blessing as just what life brings us.
On the other hand a lot of times we look at the bad things that come our way and whether it is a big thing or a little thing we tend to blow it out of proportion and the majority into the “big” category. The devil brings the bad to try to discourage us. God allows them to try to teach us to trust Him. We are really such a stubborn people.
The other thing we don’t really want to think about is that some of the bad that comes into our lives we have actually brought upon ourselves. We think that we can make any choice in life and God will make things turn out good, even though, we brought it on ourselves. God does help us through our foolish mistakes but He doesn’t always remove the consequences.
I want to share what might seem like a little miracle that God did for our family. This was something that I shared on Facebook a while back but it bares repeating. Our family has gone through some really hard financial struggles.
“I debated whether or not to share this but I can’t help myself when it comes to sharing what God does. We have run into some hard times so we have been going to the food bank. My son, Caleb, was planning to make bean soup. He asked me if I thought I could get some greens after I went to the food bank, being one of the ingredients. I told him I would see what I could do. He proceeded to put the rest of the ingredients together. And as the Lord always works, when I got to the food bank looked at what was there they had just what we needed. I was able to get three big bags. There wasn’t much more food than that for what we eat but the Lord wasn’t done. I was just ready to walk up and check out when a whole bunch of other fresh things came in, lettuce, tangerines, and fresh-cut mango. I even had a lady come up and say can you use this orange juice. They were small containers. I said how many is allowed. She said just take this whole case. There were 24. They even had some vegan sour cream that Jeffrey had request for his birthday meal to go with burrito casserole, that we are celebrating this Friday. Some may call it chance but I call it God.”
Dear Father,
Help us to see You at work in our lives. Prompt our minds each day with the blessings. We can be such a negative people. Help us to look at life through Your eyes.
Thank You for Your love and for all the things that You do for us each day.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
I would challenge you to get a blessing journal and start writing down the blessings that come your way each day.
Love you all.
What blessings has God done for you? Please share in the comments. It is the sharing the blessings with others that will help us grow as well as encourage others.