14The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Exodus 14:14 (The King James Version)
The Lord ministered so much to me this week through this word. I pray that the Lord work in your life this week, as He did mine.
Men and Women of God, I am finding more and more each day the greater value of “staying quiet.”
Being quick to speak, we often do so before God has revealed the entirety of a situation to us, and His will and purpose for it. As the whole story is uncovered, it can change what we once thought to be a great situation or a God opportunity, into something that was from the very start a trick of the enemy – one that we could not see. I'm reminded of a test taking skill I was taught back in high school as it relates to multiple-choice questions. Once asked a question, the next step was to evaluate 3 or 4 different answers; those answers are often multi-part statements and you must choose the one that is correct. I was taught, when reading the answer statement if even one part of the statement was incorrect, then the entire statement was incorrect. Now, how often did we choose the wrong answer, because we read only the first part of the statement…usually up to the comma?
I believe this is a great practice to apply to our lives, as situations we encounter on a daily basis can challenge us to prematurely act/re-act on what may turn out to be only part – of the story. In our impatience, frustration, confusion, and arrogance, we take things in into our own hands feeling that we know enough and have strength enough even of ourselves to handle it when the truth of the matter is, God knows we cannot, and it is not even His design that we “handle it.” Here is a good question, can we be patient and wait on God, even when we know we are right? “What am I waiting for then,” you might ask? You are waiting for the right time. You see the right thing, at the wrong time, is still the wrong thing! There goes that multipart answer again!
Is there such a situation going on in your life today? There is a greater plan, a greater work at hand. Greater, than we can fathom. It may not seem possible, but God can and will use this experience of walking through this season with our mouths Shut…to OPEN up the windows of Heaven over our Destiny.
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