Life Overflowing ( T.D Jakes, p56)
Our hands and hearts must rise up to worship the God who has repeatedly told us and revealed to us that we are His precious CHOSEN ONES.
Every step of the way, every day, and in countless ways, God is working all things in our lives toward the glorious future He has planned for us.
He is continually working ALL things- not some things, not a few things, but ALL things.
What does it mean for God to "work" all things? It means He is constantly manipulating, moving, maneuvering, and arranging all things according to His purposes. Things don't happen at random in our lives. They don't happen because of coincidence. God is at work, bringing about His purposes.
If we are experiencing tribulation we must glory in it! Tribulation works patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope, and hope dispels all shame (see Romans 5:3-5). God is in the process of taking the worst things imaginable and turning them for great good in our lives.
Circumstances may not seem good at times, but look at the hand that is behind those circumstances, "working" those circumstances!
We must hear the Lord speaking to our spirits, "I'm working it out. Don't judge yet. The final conclusion hasn't been revealed yet. I'm not through yet. Just keep looking at the master blueprint of my will".
As God is working all things for the highest and greatest good of all, we who have trusted in Christ should live to the praise of His glory. We are incited to continuously praise and worship and glorify Him because we are His inheritance and He has everything in our lives worked out.
AMENNNNN to that!
Go and FLOURISH! ;-)
