Delayed, Not Denied...

I wrote this to a friend, a while back, who was constantly giving undue credit to Satan for his slips and delays.  I found it in my email archives and thought it would be cool to share:

It is always easy to think, “not now,” “it’s not time, yet,” and “tomorrow, change will come,” when it comes to our destiny, whatever it may be.  He also wants us to think that we are not good enough for something, right this moment, so we need to work harder at it to become more qualified.  God will never tell us we are not good enough.  If we believe in Christ, we believe that we can do anything the Bible says we, His disciples, can do.  Believe it TODAY, not tomorrow.

God always wants us to stand in what He offers us, TODAY, because every promise, in the Bible, is true TODAY, not only tomorrow.  The enemy wants us to think “delay”, so we will miss, or get a delay on the blessings and promises coming to us.  Doubting is lack of faith.  Lack of faith is lack of trust. Lack of trust is not what God calls us to have.  Our sinful, unfaithful, or disobedient actions can, however, delay our destiny, as it did with Abraham and with others in the Bible.  But…as a good friend told me, “destiny delayed is not destiny denied.”  The more whole-heartedly obedient to God we are, the smoother life is…  Or at least we can be calm during the storms or battles.  

The next time you want to give the enemy any credit for anything, remember that God is stronger, and there is nothing we can’t accomplish as long as it is through Christ.  Lucifer DOES NOT own the world; he just temporarily dwells in it.  Christ owns everything, and everything can be used for His glory.  God appointed Him the King of kings (enough said).  Evidence of that is stated below:

Colossians 1:15-20

The Supremacy of Christ

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For him all things were created:  things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supermacy.  For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by ,making peace through his blood, shed on the cross."