Habakkuk 1:2-4, Habakkuk 2:2-3.
Habakkuk was complaining to the Lord. It seemed to him that God was unfair and silent to the struggles of His chosen. He could not wrap his mind around the fact that God chose a terrible, fierce, ungodly people to judge His people. Have you ever been in a test or series of trials and tried to wrap your mind around...the ways of God? Many times it seems like God is silent in our time of trouble. It seems like the evil people somehow are moving forward, prospering, and we are constantly denied access to the blessings that the bible say we so rightly deserve. Many times we even feel as though God has placed a target on our back and said to the enemy.....there he is...have at him/her...another test, another temptation, another let up to be let down; I call it a Job moment. Many times, if you are honest, we do feel as if we, God's chosen, have been forgotten. Where is God when we suffer lost, when we lose a job, a home, a marriage, a relationship, or have health challenges, even experience death? The cry "why me” or “how much longer, God?” We cry out “have we not suffered enough! Have we not paid for our sins of disobedience?” We wonder why it seems as if the unjust, the non- believers prosper and we suffer. Why does it take God so long to answer? If He never sleeps nor slumbers......where is He? The questions persist ...why must I be persecuted, do without, continuously be in a state of "going through". Where is my abundant life? Yes, the cry of the anointed.....Why? When all I want to do is live for Jesus.
We must not be disillusioned as to what is really transpiring. Many are the afflictions of the righteous...but the Lord shall deliver him out of them all. For our "light afflictions” which is for but a moment...works for us a far more eternal weight of glory. I can hear some of you saying "light?" come on now....The bible says we are not ignorant of the devil’s devices. It is the enemy's objective to make you feel as though you have been deserted. Nothing new....he tried the same thing with Jesus...remember Jesus on the cross....feeling all alone...abandoned.
The bible says He....God, reigns on the just as well as the unjust; so we are not immune from suffering. However crazy it seems...our times are in His hands...all of God’s anointed have asked those same agonizing questions. Job asked why, Naomi asked why, David asked why the injustice, Jeremiah, even Paul asked why. God says if you are anointed....it is for His purpose...to fulfill your "destiny". His ways are higher than ours. He tells us ....as He told Habakkuk , the vision...the answer...the purpose is for an appointed time...and though it tarry....wait on it....for it, your deliverance, your answer...it will come.
Beloved, know that God is preparing you for your next level where your complete purpose will be manifested. It’s essential that you go through the season to get to your place of blessing. Weeping endures for a night but joy comes in the morning! So anointed, cry if you must, but know soon you will trade these challenges, these situations, these seemingly unanswered prayers, these tears, “for the garment of Praise"... for the Victory that Jesus promised. Anointed...."wait on it!"
The Bishop....
Habakkuk was complaining to the Lord. It seemed to him that God was unfair and silent to the struggles of His chosen. He could not wrap his mind around the fact that God chose a terrible, fierce, ungodly people to judge His people. Have you ever been in a test or series of trials and tried to wrap your mind around...the ways of God? Many times it seems like God is silent in our time of trouble. It seems like the evil people somehow are moving forward, prospering, and we are constantly denied access to the blessings that the bible say we so rightly deserve. Many times we even feel as though God has placed a target on our back and said to the enemy.....there he is...have at him/her...another test, another temptation, another let up to be let down; I call it a Job moment. Many times, if you are honest, we do feel as if we, God's chosen, have been forgotten. Where is God when we suffer lost, when we lose a job, a home, a marriage, a relationship, or have health challenges, even experience death? The cry "why me” or “how much longer, God?” We cry out “have we not suffered enough! Have we not paid for our sins of disobedience?” We wonder why it seems as if the unjust, the non- believers prosper and we suffer. Why does it take God so long to answer? If He never sleeps nor slumbers......where is He? The questions persist ...why must I be persecuted, do without, continuously be in a state of "going through". Where is my abundant life? Yes, the cry of the anointed.....Why? When all I want to do is live for Jesus.
We must not be disillusioned as to what is really transpiring. Many are the afflictions of the righteous...but the Lord shall deliver him out of them all. For our "light afflictions” which is for but a moment...works for us a far more eternal weight of glory. I can hear some of you saying "light?" come on now....The bible says we are not ignorant of the devil’s devices. It is the enemy's objective to make you feel as though you have been deserted. Nothing new....he tried the same thing with Jesus...remember Jesus on the cross....feeling all alone...abandoned.
The bible says He....God, reigns on the just as well as the unjust; so we are not immune from suffering. However crazy it seems...our times are in His hands...all of God’s anointed have asked those same agonizing questions. Job asked why, Naomi asked why, David asked why the injustice, Jeremiah, even Paul asked why. God says if you are anointed....it is for His purpose...to fulfill your "destiny". His ways are higher than ours. He tells us ....as He told Habakkuk , the vision...the answer...the purpose is for an appointed time...and though it tarry....wait on it....for it, your deliverance, your answer...it will come.
Beloved, know that God is preparing you for your next level where your complete purpose will be manifested. It’s essential that you go through the season to get to your place of blessing. Weeping endures for a night but joy comes in the morning! So anointed, cry if you must, but know soon you will trade these challenges, these situations, these seemingly unanswered prayers, these tears, “for the garment of Praise"... for the Victory that Jesus promised. Anointed...."wait on it!"
The Bishop....
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