This is one of my absolute favorite scriptures that God has used to help me in numerous hard times in my walk with Jesus.

 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding:In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct your path. Proverbs 3:5  

When you read this scripture, do you really take time to 

meditate on what the Lord is saying to you? I ask the Lord to teach me, for I am yet a child.

I get from this scripture that when we lean on our own understanding that we will get……..

confused. I know when I try to figure it out in my mind, according to what I can see and understand that the enemy uses that against me.

It is difficult to trust with all our heart, when all the circumstances we find ourselves in at the moment speak the opposite of God’s promises for us.

For example, you may have thought a situation should work out a certain way or even prayed that it would and when it did not you were left scratching your head.

God revealed to me that we pray prayers that contradict each other all the time. We may be asking for God’s will or best in our lives and at the same time praying for example, for a specific job.

God sees the big picture and we do not so this job make look like God’s best today, but God can see down the road it leading us to a destructive path for our lives.

So both prayers could have been prayed in faith to believe, but God answered the higher prayer or the one that works together for our good according to Romans 8:28.

Sometimes the things that do not look good at all in the moment can work together for our eternal good, which is God’s plan.

Think about Mary, the mother of Jesus. She must have wondered where God was and why this was happening to her precious son when he was being beaten and taken to the cross.

Can you imagine? It may not have looked like what she had pictured. She may have questioned everything at that moment.

Or think about John the baptist, when he was in prison, while Jesus was ministering. He even asked should I look for another? I doubt that is how he imagined the end of his ministry.

How prideful of us to think that we would know what is best? Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path.

God is good all the time and He KNOWS what is best!

Exercise Daily, Walk with the Lord,

Jenay Green