Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 111
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International
Littleton, Colorado
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In
this day’s writing, Michael shares one of the most important lessons for anyone
about trusting God for His supply (His bringing something to pass, etc.). God has promised to meet our needs. Can we wait on Him to fulfill His promise?
DAY 260
The
Call Followed By A Roadblock
For this reason I have often been hindered from coming to
you. --Romans 15:22
To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will
count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the
work of faith with power. –II Thessalonians 1:11
God will often give the believer a call to accomplish
something and then close every door to make the fulfillment impossible.
Why? Because with the call comes
a provision. The same
One who gives the call must also accomplish it. However, the flesh of man will take the
call and not the provision, choosing to look for fulfillment in self-power, and
if completion is possible, sink into glory, kingdoms, pride, strength, and
righteousness. The call
and the provision are one; the problem is that we do not see them as one. Therefore, immediately
after the call, all attempts to fulfill it must fail. We need not look
far for an example. Joseph, after the call to be the leader of his family,
actually thought it a turn of bad luck to end up in a pit. Then it was good
luck to be taken out of the pit, followed by bad luck to fall in with men who
sold him into slavery. Then more good luck came and made him head of a house
before another turn of bad luck arose when he ended up in prison. In the end,
though, he saw it was God who brought Him out. It was all God. The call and the provision were one. He
completed the call with the provision and took no glory. This is to be the end
result of a perfect call of God.
When you get a call, do not think that is all of it.
Listen and wait for the provision. Do not try to do the thing on your own. You
will only end up in a pit.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
Hooooooooo-boy! This is a
humdinger of a writing! I believe
Michael was so used to experiencing this particular aspect of life and ministry
that he was thinking faster than he could write, but God gave him exactly the
simple, succinct words for us to get one of God’s greatest truths so clearly
and profoundly. And in addition…one of
our most needed truths to live life by.
Would to God that all of us Christians could get the truth that “the
call and the provision are one.” God’s “calls”
come regularly and often, but our not wanting His provision, or perhaps waiting
a bit for His provision becomes our big downfall…into that PIT. Trust God for His supply, and live on
it. That’s one of the biggest lessons we
could ever learn. The enemy steps right
in after so many “calls” and says: “If you don’t like what your God has
provided, let me suggest… If your God
won’t give it to you right now, sign right here and I will… If your God hasn’t opened that door you
wanted to walk through, step right over here and walk through this one I’ve
opened for you.”
Perhaps the most difficult thing for us to believe is that God would
give us a call, then not give us the supply we want, or that we think ought to
go with the call. How many stories like
Joseph’s does God have to give us to get us to simply walk with Him and watch
how He fulfills His call on us?
How many Christians are living in a pit they have dug themselves because
they tried to fulfill the call all on their own?
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