There is absolutely no place you can find yourself in during your life that God didn’t already know about before you experienced it. This includes every hilltop experience and every valley experience. Particularly, the valley experiences are the ones we seem to forget this. God can’t be surprised by the events of your life. He’s never shocked. As a matter of fact, if you can manage to maintain a right/godly perspective, you’d actually be able to see how, when and where God was strategically preparing and positioning you for the valleys you (will) find yourself in. Unfortunately, many of us will miss out on this Divine preparation because we’re disobedient, unfaithful, slothful and lack commitment to our godly calling and purpose in life. We attended church, but we failed to BE the Church–preparation. We read our bibles but we didn’t study our bibles- -preparation. We vented to the Lord in frustration, fear and disappointment, but we didn’t pray to the Lord in faith–preparation. We learned about God in our religion but we never came to know Him in a relationship–preparation. There’s power in preparation. Valleys will come.
God won’t do for you in miracle what you can do for yourself in muscle. He prepares us. But we have to prepare. Religion doesn’t prepare you; relationship with God does!
*Tressa Jo
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