God's Unmerited Favor

Today, one of my friends shared with me what took place over the weekend concerning them.  They had gone through doing what they needed to do in order to get their bills taken care of.  When they got finished they realized that they left something really important out.  (How many of us have been there?)  They had promised God that they would sow a seed into their church that coming Sunday and all that weekend Satan was putting thoughts into their head.  Here are some (see if you can identify)
                            1.  Just call some of your creditors and make arrangements on your arrangements
                            2.  You don't have to give all you said you were going to give this Sunday.  You can
                             break it up.  The important thing is that you give it at some point in time.

There were so many things and they kept telling themselves that God is my source and Lord you know my needs.  I am going to trust you.  They told themselves that all weekend, but Satan kept pressing.  So they decided to give all that they had promised the Lord and just trust God. 

Then they were supposed to go out to lunch with some church members after service.  They all went and during lunch one of the church members handed everyone an envelope.  In the envelope were 10 crisp one hundred (I typed it out so you wouldn't think there was a typo) dollar bills.  For those who don't add that well...that's one thousand dollars.  OMG!!!!   And their lunch was paid for...God threw that one in just because!  That's what we call an add-on. 

Psalm 37:7(NLT) declares: Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act.  

I enlarged it because you need to embrace it.  We are so busy looking for what we want God to do that we miss what He is doing.  God is still in the blessing business and He is showing all over the world that He cares for us.  He just wants us to trust Him more and more each day.  Now the kicker is that the person that gave the money had been trying to do it for weeks.  And what I shared was that God needed you guys to upgrade your faith and trust in Him.  He already had the blessing for you, but you needed to be in the position that said "Lord I trust you!"  I understand that waiting on God gets hard and sometimes Satan will give us ideas that make sense.  But Samuel declared unto Saul that obedience is better than sacrifice.  Out of all the promises you keep (and I pray you keep them all), honor the word that you gave unto the Father.  For Isaiah 40:31 reminds us that:
they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

God's unmerited favor is waiting to rest on you, when you make up your mind to rest in Him and trust Him!

Blessings and Love,

Pastor Nichica Melton