Hold Fast

When have you called out to Me and I haven’t answered?  When have you found yourself in a pit and cried out to Me that I left you where you were?  These are questions many of you have never considered.  You find yourselves crying out to Me but you fail to see My movement in your lives.  This is because the enemy has come in and stolen your blessing that I intended for you.  This is a serious thing, for many have blessings taken from you, and this is a common thing.  Whenever you cry out to Me, I move.  You fail to recognized My movement because you are expecting something else instead of what I have done.  Yes, sometimes My answer to your prayer is delayed for My purposes, but I always move when you cry out to Me.  Don’t think it odd when I delay the answer to your prayer for another day, because everything has an appointed time – even blessings – and you must be steadfast in your faith and resolve in your prayer life.  My blessing will come, but you must also understand that it may come in a way that you don’t expect.  You may be looking one way, but I have moved in another.  Because I have answered your prayer in a way counter to what you expected, you think I haven’t heard or are distant.  This is not the case!  I have, or are waiting for the perfect time, to answer your prayer in the way I see fit.  I ask today that, when you cry out to Me, that you entertain the thought that I may have answered in a way you haven’t expected.  I see all things and I see the path before you.  There are many twists and turns to your path, and I will always bring the brightest light to the center of that path, that you may see where I Am leading you.  And sometimes I keep you in the same spot for a time until the best moment for the next step to be made. 

These are difficult things to understand, because My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts higher than yours, and I see and know what awaits you around the next bend.  My action does hinge on your faith and your patience, and I will always lead you in the right way and in the right time.  Hold fast to Me.

 

2 Cor 12:1-10 (KJV)  It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3  And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4  How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5  Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 6  For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.