"Faith Being Tested"

For the past few weeks God has been administering many test for me.  Faith was the primary focus that he used.  He used this, because even though I am not a advent church goer as I should be, my faith has always been the main reason in why God chose to use me.  So here lately, he will share something with me, things that are to come to pass in my life and at a time where my faith should be the strongest, I have failed miserably.  Failed because what he was sharing with me was so of the spiritual in nature, that it was too hard for my mind to wrap around it.  He has been sharing things with me that even the strongest in God would look at it as almost unbelievable or impossible.  What I failed to realize is that, I as many of us do, forget the power of who God truly is and what he capable of doing for the believer.  You see before you receive a blessing you have to literally envision it, believe it as absolute truth, before the blessing can ever be manifested.  For the first time, my faith failed me. or shall I say, I failed myself.  Faith is not something that will "Ever" fail you.  If you have Faith,  and I mean true Faith, you will know for an absolute fact that whatever you are praying for will manifest itself.  Faith is believing in things that you can not see, believing it before the manifestation.  He showed me what areas of my life where completely void of any faith.   I was flabbergasted because I thought my faith in God and his abilities were even more stronger now than it had ever been.  This is why we should never assume anything.  So I took a step back and re-evaluated, something I do often, something we must all do on a regular basis.  It was at the moment that I could finally see why things I had asked for had not manifested itself.  In having faith, you must always remember that you must have faith in "All" areas of your life.  God shared with me, "It is the impossible" that he loves the most.  It is the things that, no matter how much we pray for it, deep down we don't feel ourselves worthy of ever really receiving it.  Many times we will pray for something and what we pray for, we don't even believe it for ourselves.  If God is the creator of all things, than what could possibly be impossible for him.  I am glad for the test I have been enduring because without them, I would have never known that I was not being faithful in all areas of my life.  So the lesson here is this.....Even though what we pray for may not seem do-able to us, maybe even impossible because there would be too much for God to move for it to ever happen, we have to always remember who we are praying to.  God is of unimaginable power.  He loves to make the impossible........possible.  No matter how a situation looks and we have to remember we are looking at it with human eyes, that we have a God who nothing is impossible for him.  He will shift and move things just for the blessing to manifest itself.  If you are in prayer about something, I urge you to have complete and absolute faith in what you are praying for.  Without it, God will not even entertain your prayer.  Faith is the key to receiving any answer in what we pray for.  Also it is important to remember that even though we ask for something in prayer we may not always get it.  Not because God doesn't hear you or want to bless you, it is because in God's eye's, what you are praying for will not be good for you and  it isn't what God wants for your life.  But don't get discouraged because even though he may not give you what "You" want, he will give you something even better than what you ask him for.  This is the beauty of the God I answer to.  He will give the believer, the one who has absolute trust in him, things that our minds cant even possibly wrap around.  I speak from experience.  And the blessing he is bestowing upon me is even more than my tiny mind could possibly fathom and now I will just have to wait with absolute patience for the manifestation.  Faith and patience go hand in hand because our time is not God's time.  You will receive the blessing when God is ready for you to receive it and most times it is when we least expect and it comes right on time....Hallelujah and Praise be To God ...."No Faith....No Patience....leads to unanswered prayers.