Keep Hoping, Praying & Believing

Keep Hoping, Praying & Believing

As you travel down the highway of life, you will encounter many obstacles along the way.  On your journey you will have twist, turns, hills, and valleys that tend to slow you down from reaching your destination.  There are times you will make a wrong turn, and wind up going the wrong way.  Only, to find out in the end, that your way wasn't the right way at all in the beginning.  You pray, you have hope, and you believe, but the situations around you still stand.  You tend to get upset, try to fix the problem, and in it, you want to question God over things that are beyond your control.  You start reasoning with yourself, allowing worry and doubt to take root in your heart.  "Why did this have to happen this way?", "Why did this have to happen to me?"  As you go through, know God is in head of everything, and His ways exceeds ours.  "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9).   You may not understand it now, but in time you will.  So, keep hoping, praying and believing.  Before everything is over, you may go through a domino effect of problems.  You may start off with a flat tire on Monday, run off the road on Tuesday, engine overheats on Wednesday, get side swiped on Thursday, car won't start on Friday, and before the week is out, you run out of gas on Saturday.  Still, keep hoping, praying and believing.  You may have had the whole trip mapped out.  You may have had a certain time that you wanted to reach your goal, but things didn't go the way you planned.  Remember, God always has something better for us in the end, and His way will bring peace. 

"For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off." (Proverbs 23:18).  Through it all, God tells us to "Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." (Deuteronomy 31:6).  Keep hoping, praying and believing.  Always have faith, and remain hopeful.  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1). 

Through the good and the bad, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." (Philippians 4:6).  Always "Pray without ceasing. In ever thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."  (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18).  Have faith and believe in what you have prayed for.  "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" (Matthew 7:7).  "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22).  Keep hoping and never give up.  Keep praying, and know that God can.  Keep believing that God can and that God will.  May peace abound in you all that you keep "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;" (Romans 12:12).  Open your heart, listen to the voice of God, and He will renew your strength.  The journey will become easier once you allow Jesus to be the head of your life.  "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:" (Isaiah 45:2).  And,

The storms on the highway of life will be over, and soon a distant memory of the past.  You will look back and appreciate all that happened when it did.  "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard"  Stay focused on Jesus Christ, and the heavenly things that are beyond this earth.  Keep hoping, praying and believing!!!  To God be the glory!!!

Have a blessed day dear friends...