THE WORKINGS OF GOD

This could have been titled so many things, but if I were to title it, I would title It's My Time. If you wonder why, here is why it is always our time for one reason or another. Today it may be your time to be abundantly blessed while it's your neighbors time to be in a storm, either way the timinig of it all is in God's capable hands. He makes no mistakes. I stated on yesterday that our ways or not His ways nor our time His time. As a matter of fact He says that 1000 years is but one day with Him.

This put things in a whole new concept that you can petition God fervently and know that He can and will hear our prayer and can answer if we are walking according to His will. Where we fall short is that we want to have it both ways, we want to walk in the flesh because oh it feels good, but we want God to bless us even in our mess. Real Talk people it don't work that way. I was listening at Bishop Bloomer and he was saying that on his way to bible study he was attempting to buy drugs, the drug dealer recognized him and refused to sell him the drugs saying he wasn't going to have God messing up his business. Two points here the Bishop who was trying to live right walking in the way of the Lord still had a stronghold that he struggled with. God knows that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, however that excuse eventually plays out at some point we are submitting to our will. The second was the drug dealer who was obviously doing well mistook God's grace given to us all as a blessing for him to do what he was doing. How foolish? God was given him another chance to get right.

I know this walking with God is complex, but really we as a people make it much harder than it has to be. It's all in the word what WE CAN AND CAN NOT DO. Sin is sin true enough if I tell a lie and you commit murder in our eyes yours was bigger than mine but in God's eyes they were the same. SO there is no justification in sin. The devil made me do it just doesn't fly with God.

So today I beseech you to turn from your sin, seek God and then humbly pray. God can then work with you. I beseech you to really examine how you are living and ask God forgiveness if it's out of His will. God doesn't want us fornicating, shacking, selling drugs, being drunks, stealing, killing and none of that. He doesn't want us juggling two and three women/men in our lives at one time. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul?

What time is it for you, are you in the abundantly blessed category or are you in the I am in a storm category. I fall into both. Because things are hard but I am still here, I am still standing and knowing that my anchor holds is the best thing that I can know at this time. SO it don't matter what it looks like and right now things look blah, but you know someone else has a thing that looks broken, can't be repaired how will I make forcast, I say this BUT GOD.

Today remember to consider that HE ALONE IS GOD, He can and will work this out, if only you believe, if only you are willing to lay down your pride and walk with Him. He is standing with His arms out stretched saying Come. Come to me all who are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Jesus I have come and it's in your hands, I need a right now deliverance if you will. I know that if I can just hold until tomorrow everything is going to be alright.

I am Blessed to Be A Blessing,
Shon Garner Cole

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by Charles R. Swindoll
Read Esther 7:6–10
The workings of God are not related to our clocks; they are related to our crises. That's why God doesn't care if this is the last day you can buy that car on sale. It doesn't bother God that it is the first day of summer or high noon or a quarter after seven or ten minutes to one in the morning. His timing is unrelated to Planet Earth's clock time. So while waiting, look beyond the present.
The best way to do that is to pray! Make your life a life of prayer. Tell Him, in anguish if necessary, the pain of waiting. Express your panic. Tell Him you're trapped. (Ask Him to hurry up, if that helps. He can handle it!) You don't know how you can stay afloat much longer. In those moments, ask Him to help you see beyond the frustration and fear of the present.
The surprises in store are not merely ironic or coincidental; they are sovereignly designed. While anticipating, trust Him for justice. You may not live to see that justice, but it will come. He is a just God; you know He is. So trust Him for it.
I have found while in the fog that my great temptation is either to doubt or to deny—maybe they're the same thing—to doubt or to deny that He is even at work. But, more often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it's really just the beginning. I can see this later, when I look back.
Esther, our heroine, is a lovely model to follow. And her story is certainly one to remember. But the best focus of all? God Himself. How perfectly He works, how sovereignly He controls, and how remarkably He changes the face of things once He moves in. A queen who was passive is actively in charge. A king who was duped is now fully informed. An enemy who was only moments away from exterminating a nation is now an object of scorn. And those ghastly gallows, built for a Jew named Mordecai, will soon suffocate the body of a Gentile named Haman.
When will we ever learn? At the precise moment when it will have its greatest impact, God ceases His silence and sovereignly makes His move. And when He does, life is full of surprises.