2 Chronicles 22-23, Ecclesiastes 2:1-17, Matthew 15:21-39
What God said to me – Have you ever wondered how the disciples could have been so dense? How didn’t they get it even when they had seen Me feed the five thousand with a few fish and loaves of bread and heal the lame and crippled and mute and blind and cast out demons? Even though they had seen and experienced all of these things firsthand, when I told them that I wanted to feed another large crowd of people, they were at a loss as to how it could be done. In the midst of the circumstance, they floundered. Rather than connect the dots by looking back at their past experiences with Me, they were overwhelmed by their present dilemma. Your walk with Me – this lifelong conversation – is a brick-by-brick building of your faith and growing you to maturity in your faith. So, when you are faced with something that is seemingly impossible and you can’t see an answer or a way out, stop – quit looking at the circumstances and go back and look at all the times I have been faithful and how I answered your prayers. Don’t look at the trial you are in but look to Me and trust that I will be faithful again.