This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours. where patience and commitment to Him is tested, and we are trained in discernment over many years.( Hab. 2:1-3, Isa. 55:8).
This plan of mine is not what you would work out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours. where patience and commitment to Him is tested, and we are trained in discernment over many years.( Hab. 2:1-3, Isa. 55:8).
As we submit to and obey Him, we are able to discern His times and seasons in( and for) our lives, as He permits, and align ourselves to His purposes. We unite with Him and His Church in accomplishing His purpose. This encourages and strengthens our interdependence with His Church and dependence on Him. We are trained in understanding and respecting authority and boundaries in the natural and spiritual realms, and we learn accountability.
In every season, we are to seek God’ s revealed Will( what His Spirit and written Word expect from us and what are His commands to us). That is, as we saturate our minds in the Bible, our minds are renewed and we progressively understand the seasons we are in as He permits. We receive an improved understanding of His revealed Will for us and His ability to execute it.( Rom. 12:2, Josh. 1:8).
When we pray and speak His Word and obey Him according to His Will, we demonstrate we agree with Him. And as we fulfill the condition or conditions He has instructed to be fulfilled, we are positioned for transformation and breakthrough.( 2
Romans 13:10
Cor. 3:18, 2 Cor. 1:19-20).
The Bible cites the word“ if” numerous times, which indicates a condition has to be fulfilled for a promise to come to pass. For example, in 2 Chr. 7:13- 15, it is written,“ When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, [ if ] my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.”( Emphasis added.)
We learn what He can do and what we cannot do. We are equipped and trained to respond appropriately to His will and ways. We recognize and acknowledge His sovereignty, His Lordship and that He is our merciful High Priest. It is in our dependency on Him in every season that we experience His presence and involvement in our lives, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the finished work of the Cross: His grace, mercy, wisdom, strength and discernment.
Evangelist Uche was born in Nigeria and is a graduate of the University of Indianapolis( IN). His ministry has taken him all over the world spreading the Gospel. www. himpowermagazine. com 11