Dealing with DELAYS in your Dream

We’re not surprised when a pregnant mother deals with delays in having her baby. We’re not surprised when a student is delayed before their day of graduation. Neither are we surprised when a pilot gets his pilot’s license after a season of training. Why are we surprised when we deal with delays in our Dream? Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs all dealt with DELAYS in their Dream.

A person who is willing to forge ahead in determination and discipline will DELIGHT in their dream. Can anything POSITIVE come out of our Delays in the Dream?

DELAYS are part of our growth, development, and gains in our patience, faith, love, joy, peace, goodness, humility and self-control. There is no value in living in anger, frustration, restlessness, depression, impatience, doubt, pride and crankiness. What good will these things add to your life. I have not gained any value worrying all night about something in my head.

God says; “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9) God is saying that just as some of the stars in the heavens are some fifty billion light years away from us, that is how far our fleshy worries and thoughts are away from God’s thoughts and plans.

There are some DYNAMICS that can HELP us in Dealing with our DELAYS

1.        God Knows Best   In Acts 3:2-6, the story is told of a lame man who sat at the Beautiful Gate begging every day. Jesus walked right past this man in His ministry, but he still was not healed. But one day,  years later Peter on his way to the temple, looked at him as he was begging for money. He said, “Silver and gold have I none, but in the name of Jesus rise up and walk”. God knows Best when our day of deliverance will come.

2.        God Sees The Good   Joseph may not have seen the good in his pain from his angry brothers, Potiphar’s wife’s false accusation of rape, or his time in prison, but one day God took him to the Palace. Was God possibly working out some ego from his life?

3.        God’s Never Late   There have been times when each of us declared, “God, You are dragging your feet on this one.”  Are you still waiting on your promotion, your spouse to marry, your ministry, your graduation, your first child, your first home, and your breakthrough, or your miracle, Waiting and waiting some more? Are you tired of WAITING? “Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap if you faint not.” (Gal 6:9) 

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