Slow Down And Don’t Stop Believing, I Am In Control

Word of the Day
My child, slow down and know that I am in control. Stop hurrying around and expecting everything to be done right now!  My ways and thoughts are higher than yours (Isaiah55:7).  You may not understand for the most part why you must wait but the things…the dreams, visions and destiny I have for you are precious. Like aged wine they take time to become full bodied. Some will come to fullness before others; but, it is as it should be, for they in turn are building blocks for the next dream or vision. To not have the proper time or process will make your house like a house of cards on shifting sands. I know you do not want it to be that way. So, be patient with yourself as I am with you.

All things…all promises and all people must be allowed to go through proper process in order to be fully developed and have no handicap.  Only I know the perfect time and place for those precious things to be revealed and fulfilled!  For Me, time is never ending. I have a perfect work in progress which will bring complete fulfillment to your life. Let endurance and patience have their perfect work as I shape and mold you with utmost care (James 1:4).

Therefore, keep your focus on Me and you will be able to continue standing. After all, it is not the fulfillment of dreams and visions, though they are of great importance, that it the most important thing. Being with Me is most important above all. Communion, intimacy in relationship with Me is the ultimate fulfillment.

Beloved, it takes time. When you let Me, I will create a perfect blessing for you.  If you don’t let Me work and you try to RUSH things then my gift cannot completely develop to bless you beyond your hopes and dreams.  My child, I wish to give you everything, that’s why I am also preparing you a special room in My Father’s house!  Everything I have in Heaven is yours My child. Just seek, ask, and you shall receive!  As you do this, rest…slow down and don’t give up. Don’t stop believing for I am in control at all times. All I need or want is your cooperation. All I want is for you to believe I am good…believe you are good in My eyes and respond accordingly. Never fear, as we work together…as we co-labor together, all things will be fulfilled at just the right time.

But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing (James 1:4 Amplified)

Prayer
Lord, forgive me for all the times I have been in a rush in my life with the expectation of things to happen quickly. Fill me with the confidence and knowledge of Your wisdom for You always know what is best for me in every situation of my life. Help me to be patient when I don’t understand why things happen the way they do. Your Word says that Your ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:7). Holy Spirit, please remind me of this Scripture when I get confused and don’t understand.

Lord, You have been since before the beginning of time and know everything that will ever happen. You are the beginning, the end and all in between. I pray for Your peace, mercy, and love in the times of my life when it seems that everything is going so fast but nothing seems to be getting done. I pray for the strength to go through my trials and have confidence in Your ability to mold me and make me stronger each time. I thank You for the image of the potter and the clay…for how my life relates to it. How awesome to be held and shaped by Your kind and gentle hands. It takes time for loving hands to mold and shape the clay into a beautiful creation! Teach me to be patient as You are patient…to not concentrate on the left over pieces of days gone by but on the beauty of what is being formed by Your hand.

Help me to understand that my time will go on, that it won’t end like everything belonging to this world. I am an eternal being and all I am in You will continue to be. I thank you for the new aspect of eternity awaiting me when my body has passed away. I pray for Your wisdom when I begin to think of time as being so short. Forgive me for putting You in a box and forgetting time is endless for You. Actually there is not time in You. You simply are past, present and future. When I begin to think I’m running out of time and become impatient, please remind me lovingly to wait on You. Sometimes it is so hard to wait; but, I remind myself that even the world knows the best things in life come to those who wait! I pray for the strength to stand firm and focus on You every day of my life. I thank you Lord for being patient with me…for taking the time to know my heart. I now choose to live as an eternally minded person who is not bound by time but, is transformed by glory. Amen

Reflect and Journal
1. Do you find yourself in a hurry or feeling dismayed over the time it is taking for promises and such to come to pass in your life?

2. When you feel dismayed, how do you react? Do you blame God or become so introspective as to look at all the possible reasons it is not happening because of something you have or have not done? Sometimes what we do or think can have an effect on the progress of what we are waiting on and sometimes it just isn’t the right time. Take some time do discern which it is in your life all the while remembering Holy Spirit convicts and brings things to the surface we need to deal with. We don’t have to dig. He is more than willing to show us while operating with loving grace. Be patient with yourself as He is patient with you.

3. A child in the womb not allowed to fully develop can have handicaps. So can the dreams of our heart…the longings of our soul to see those we love come into the fullness of grace? The best way to deal with waiting is to be in love with the Lord and spend time with Him so He can reveal all we need to know step by step. This eliminates fear and anxiety while building unparalleled intimacy.

4. Have you been trying to hurry anything along according to your own plans and desires? Have you being playing the blame game…with yourself, others or God. If so, repent and come into grace?

5. What have you, in any way, shape or form given up on…who have you given up on? What do you need to do in reference to having given up in relation to this devotion?