Any Day Now

         Friends, I am so full right now I can barely type. But I know I’ve got to get this out of me before the enemy comes and tries to take it away. I just came out of prayer with my friends at Refugee Temple Church in Burlington North Carolina. Prayer was led by their faithful pastor, Bishop Reginald Davis, and he was on fire! Yet it was the closing of the prayer that took me over the edge.

        As Bishop closed out and made his final remarks, they began to play a song called “Any Day Now” by Ricky Dillard and New G featuring the talented Bebe Winans. The song basically declares, “I’m expecting my miracle any day now.” It says I shall have what I believe any day now. As I listened I heard in my spirit, “Are you expecting? Are you believing?”

        You see, I have this problem where no matter what I know in my head, there’s something that keeps telling me I have to earn the favor of God; I have to work for His goodness to operate in my life; that God will only do great things through me and for me if I do great things for Him. But that’s not what His Word says.

        Matthew 7:7 says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.”  Philippians 4:19 says, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” There are so many promises available to us where all that is required to receive is that we believe. We, I, make it so much more complicated than it is and for that, I humbly repent.

        Like Abram in Genesis 15, I was minding my own business when the Spirit of God spoke some amazing things to me. He made me a promise that I found hard to believe, but I believed. Then in the passing of time as I waited, my faith began to waver and I, like Abram, decided maybe God needed my help. And like Abram, I made a mess.

        I am therefore all the more grateful that “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19) Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (Romans 4:3) Yes, he was tested, but he passed the test because he believed God. I, too, believe God and like the Psalmist “…I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.” (Psalm 5:3 NIV)

        So yes, Holy Spirit, I am expecting; I am believing. And in my believing, I surrender my all to You. I won’t try to work it out or figure it out. I won’t keep getting in your way trying to help you out. I’m just going to move out of the way and by faith declare, any day now…

 

Note: All scriptures from the NKJV unless otherwise noted.

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