Day 10- Raising Our Expectations
SCRIPTURE:
Call to me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3
DEVOTION:
Too often we settle for much less than what the LORD wants to do through us. In Jeremiah 32:27, “I am the LORD, the God of all flesh, is anything too Hard for me?” As believers, we readily answer “No” but when the rubber meets the road and God promises to do something in our lives that we have seen him do in other people’s lives or in the bible thousands of years ago and while we know He can do it, we start second guessing if we are good enough or holy enough or whatever enough. When God told Moses of what He had chosen Moses to do, instead of Moses going into prayer and fasting, readying himself for the task God had in store for him, he started to argue with God, finding every reason why he could not fulfill the plans God had for him. When God told Abraham that Sarah would have a child in her old age, she laughed in her mind and Abraham laughed out loud. What are you doing?
REFLECTION & SHARING:
Do you sense that there is far more that God wants to do through your life than what you have been experiencing? Ask Father to show you what it is, then prepare to respond in faith and obedience. Is there anything too difficult for God? He just wants us to call out to Him and He will show us great and mighty things. Amen.
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I was watching You Tube yesterday and a young man made this statement... we are reflections of what we see around us... that statement has just kept playing once in my head since then. So if I see bueaty around me it's the bueaty in me, if I see hurt around md it's the hurt in me etc..He also said that when we Ask God for things some things can take longer to manifest because God is creating the right circumstances for that thing to come to us. I then started thinking about the statement Queen Mother said i in church about Thanking vs Asking for God. We as humans create doubt which either hinders us from trusting that God has big plans for each of us. I am learning to trust and not limit my expectations from the Most High and Thank Him for what He has promised not just me but my church family.
January 1st, 2023, I wrote my resignation letter from the only source of income I had. My husband did not have a job. My 21 year old was the only source of income in our household.....it was a scary decision but it was one I made after discussing what was happening at my job with my family...new management was in place and I was being singled out for things I had been doing correctly for 12 years. I was reprimanded for having my Bible on my desk, for saying Amen, for standing up for staff when someone called her a "nigger", for putting a camphor square in my drawer...the list goes on. I look back at my life since then and while it has been challenging financially, I know that Father was there for me. I look at my spiritual walk and my faith has increased so much!!! God has used St. Catherine's Spiritual Baptist Ministries and Queen Mother Sherma to fulfill a desire of my heart that I never even knew exist. Today, my husband is working in a full time job with phenomenal benefits, I have been blessed with a healthy beautiful granddaughter who doctors said only had a 5% chance of living, I have been given the awesome opportunity of sharing the word of God in Bible Study and teaching the word to 15 eager to learn children in our newly launched Children's Ministry, I now have the opportunity to travel to spend time with my mom in Trinidad, my grandson in New York.....oh I could go on and on about the blessings of our Lord!!! I thank you Lord for always going beyond my expectations and for being my Jehovah Shaddai, my sufficient one. I thank you Lord!!! Amen.
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