The Secret

May 29

"He will give you your heart's desire and carry out all your plans." Psalms 20:4

ASK GREAT THINGS OF GOD

Imagine your child seeing that you are cooking breakfast, and asking if you are going to allow him to eat. How would that make you feel? Would you think your child believes in the love that you have for him?

I think that God feels the same way when we have a lack of faith in His love and provision for us. God cares about every detail of our life. God does not turn a blind eye or a deaf eye to our petitions. He is there and more than willing to answer our petitions when we ask in FAITH!

How does one ask in faith? Find a scripture that covers the need we have, and then ask God to help us according to that promise. God is willing, able, and wanting to complete His word in our lives.

Then the battle begins in our mind. We ask in faith and then the devil fills our mind with all kinds of doubts and fears that beat up against us, taking our mind off the promise.

Let's say you have your vision of what you would like to do. But you don't have the money nor do you know anyone who can lend you the money. Psalms 20: 4 says "He (God) will give you your heart's desire and carry out all your plans."

What's the catch? We need to seek to do God's will first in our lives and He will add everything else. God wants us to succeed. He wants us to prosper. Why? So we can show others how great our God is and so we can bless others with what we have received from Him.

Go ahead, dream big and ask God to bless that which you desire to do to further His Kingdom on earth. -- Dr. Timothy Emerick


The Word admonishes that we, “Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season you shall reap if you faint not.” (Galatians 6:9) We do tend to weary. We tend to invest ourselves toward the goal that we desire and when it seems our effort falls short, we become disconcerted. We wonder “Why?”

When that happens, we must remind ourselves that God does not see as we see. If we are walking in obedience to Him, our reward is in the act of obedience itself, not in the outcome that we might suppose should follow our having submitted to His authority.

Some of the Lord’s greatest rewards come in the secret place of the heart. Those are the little nooks and crannies within ourselves where we sense His presence, His peace, His approval of our efforts. We may never be among those whose accomplishments “pay off” in the world’s eyes; but we know in the depth of our being that it is in God’s eyes that we desire approval.

In Psalm 25:14 He assures, “The secret of the Lord have they who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its deep meaning.” The ‘secret’ is the tender sense of His presence that unfolds the depth of His promises to those who worship and respect Him. If we desire life’s true treasure, it is to be obtained only in our companionship with Him.