Do You Believe for the Unexpected?
Willow’s 8th birthday was approaching. I offered to take her shopping so she could choose some clothes and shoes for her present. She was very excited and kept checking the whole week about the day and time that I would pick her up. It was a lovely late night shopping experience. She selected some lovely t-shirts, shorts, skirt and track top.
A few days later her Mum bought her some sneakers. The next day, as she was putting on her shoes, she turned to her Mum and stated, “I think you’ve bought me the wrong size – I can’t feel my toes touching the top of the shoes…”
For a while now because she is having a growth spurt all her shoes are getting tight for her and her toes have touched the top of the shoes. She thinks that’s just normal.
Do we sometimes live a certain way, thinking it is just normal, because it’s been like that for so long? That we don’t remember any different.
Sometimes that can be a mistake.
We learn to live less than. We don’t have hope for a better future, because this is the way it has been for so long.
Had Abraham and Sarah given up long ago for a child? Then God stepped in and told Abraham he would be a Father of a great nation. He had been so used to his “toes touching the edge of his shoes”, just getting by, not expecting a child anymore. But God came and showed him a different way, to believe and walk differently-
God made a miraculous space of provision and birth of a son to occur out of the ordinary, out of the impossible, so unexpected.
Do you have enough faith to believe God could work in your life?
Do the unexpected?
Do you believe God could blow your socks off and do something in your life unexpected?
I do.
Our trust needs to go deeper in Him, in knowing whatever happens God has a perfect plan
A perfect plan for me, for my life.
Or will I be surprised when God wants to spoil me and gives me shoes that allow me to grow, and my toes don’t scrape the top of the shoes.
Where do you trust God?
May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’
Love
Rosemary
Every week groups of ladies meet together to chat about the things I raise in my weekly blog post and to chat about life in general. We call these ‘Heart Connect’ groups.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Do you have enough faith to believe God could work in your life? Why or why not?
What is something unexpected that you are believing for?
In what areas of your life do you find it easy to trust God? What areas are the hardest to trust?
7 Comments
Marge
I’ve been so depressed & anxious for so long and have fear of everything. I never stop praying that God will return me to some happiness.
Rosemary Downes
Believing for god to come and help you. Continue to trust in him, lean on him. He can do this for you! Much love and prayers
Valerie Lack
Oh yes! My God is great and wonderful, he can do anything and everything.
The thing I hope for most is the transformation of our daughter and her family in Tasmania, I won’t go into details, but they need a miracle to turn their lives around. I believe that if it is Gods will their lives will be changed for ever.
I trust him in all areas, he knows best what we need.
Anne
I am believing for God to heal my husband of his addiction and that God will provide so that I can retire. I am Also believing that God will show me how to deepen my relationship with him.
Rosemary Downes
Praying with confidence that God will come thru for you and your husband in those areas of need.
Don’t doubt He will do something.
Elvira Dlima
Yes, I have experienced the unexpected!
I had kept a renter in my apartment. After three months he stopped paying me the rent. Reminders, police complaints and even legal notices were futile. Each day I asked my my GOD to strengthen my faith. I prayed ” Lord YOU know my agony, but I trust in YOU, only YOU can help me. I trust in YOUR plan, I know that you are fighting for me”. Ten months later my GOD brought me victory! this renter just left on his own.
It was my total faith in my GOD that the unexpected happened.
Sandie Murray
I am believing for your total healing Rosemary more energy and to be able to fill those shoes (actually the hearts of others) to fill them with hope, joy and peace… you are nothing short of remarkable…you reinforce my knowledge of Who He Really Is.. We are His daughters and He is the lover of our Souls! Jesus we trust in you. Blessed Mother you are the other side of that two edged sword for certain.. joining our every prayer and 100% obedience to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Rosemary .. always remember big deposit He expects a huge return😉🙌💝