Wisdom To Change

Be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
There is another class of people you should watch out for: the people who will try to talk you out of your blessing. They will actually try to shrink your faith in the name of religion or “common sense.”


Small-minded people have a particularly bad habit of looking at you like you are crazy because they did not hear that particular thing from God. (I suppose they think God would never do something without clearing it through them!)


Very often, blessing-stealers are Christians with a very small vision of God. They are doing all they can to believe God just to pay their rent. Go higher. Associate with people who are believing God to help them buy a house, debt free!


You serve a God who is bigger than a rent-paying God. Get to know Him as the all-powerful Jehovah-Jireh. He declares, “I will pay it off, and not simply in your children’s lifetime, but right now. I am God your Provider.”


People who struggle to believe God just for rent will rarely be able to believe what God is saying to you. Family members also have a unique ability to steal a blessing by persuading you that you did not hear God. They find it hard to believe that God could use you—after all, they remember you in diapers. Even Jesus had to deal with this problem.


Be prepared when people try to talk you out of your mission and promise. If they cannot persuade you, they may begin to criticize and mock you. Do not turn aside; be bold and courageous. Look neither to the right nor to the left, and be sure to do all that the Lord placed in your heart!


Heavenly Father, I know I heard Your voice, and I know You gave me divine assignments and holy promises. It is You who is at work in me both to will and to do Your perfect will, and I will obey. I place my faith in You, and I will not be moved. By Your Spirit, I will possess the promise You gave me. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.