We have the great privilege
of coming to God with our requests
We ask Him for what we want
and He chooses to answer the way He wants
And we get into a dangerous place
when we only see Him as good
When He answers the way we think He should
The fact is,
we either trust His sovereignty
His wisdom
and His omniscience
Or we don’t
When we meet God’s “No”
with the stomp of our foot
We in essence are showing a lack of trust
and a sense of entitlement
Santa Jesus would hand us whatever we ask for
and therein we would develop no faith
We would have no need of an all-knowing God,
for whenever we exercised our will of asking
Santa Jesus would give us
whatever we want
This is not what we should expect
May our prayers be ones of great faith
and trust
In our great God
who knows best
– Susie Stewart
He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity He restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him. After God made that decision of what His children should be like, He followed it up by calling people by name. After He called them by name, He set them on a solid basis with Himself. And then, after getting them established, He stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what He had begun.
– Romans 8:27-30 (MSG)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…
– Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
– Mark 5:36 (NLT)
They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
– Psalm 112:7 NIV)
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