How do you view the Lord? Do you view Him as the One who will give you all of your hearts desires? Do you view Him as the One who will take care of all of your pains and sufferings? Indeed, God is all of those things, but so much more also. We want God to give us everything and when we pray often times it is for God to give us something, or to remove a negative situation from our lives.
We should not look for God to just give us something without any teaching and maturity. In every situation we go through, good or bad there is a lesson to be learned. Instead of always asking God to give, give, give, we should ask Him to teach, teach, teach, and to make us into that person that He has called us to be.
The Bible talks about prosperity, wealth, and riches and how as being Gods children that we have this already given to us. Instead of us asking God to work a miracle and drop a million dollars into our bank account overnight, we should first ask Him to impart the wisdom to handle wealth; then ask Him for a strategy that you can use that would make you acquire the wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18). If we have a negative situation in our lives, our prayer shouldn’t be to just ask God to remove it. The situation is there for a reason. Let’s start asking God first to reveal the clarity of this situation; is there anything inside of me that doesn’t need to be there that brought this situation into my life and if so, Lord what needs to be done within me to remove it. It’s time to begin to focus on being made and not just on being given all the time.
Let’s look at the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 (KJV). In verse 12-13 it says…
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Many of you know the story after he went away he spent all his money and had to work at a pig farm, but even then he had nothing, they wouldn’t even let him eat what the pigs were eating. And then he had a revelation in verses 17-19…And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
So you can see the son went from give me and going out on his own will and not using any wisdom, he lost all his money, then he went through a tough time which caused him to get understanding in which his heart became right, and his mindset went from give me to make me, as you can see he matured.
It is a time for maturity in the body of Christ we already have the inheritance just as the prodigal son did from the beginning, his mindset and his heart just weren’t in the right place. It’s time for us to come to ourselves, accept that which God has already given us when Jesus went to the cross, stop worrying about how and when and where everything is going to manifest, and trust that God has already aligned everything for us. Let us begin to focus on our inner man, let us begin to say, God make me the person you created me to be, etc. once the inside is aligned correctly, we will see things begin to manifest on the outside.
We pray this has been a blessing on your life.
Daryle & Tracy Houston
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org
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