Proverbs 13
Verse 12 "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life."
Satan does not want you to get your hopes up, so when the answer or solution doesn't come when we think we need it to, our hearts grow sick. Satan then fuels the fire of deferred hope, by trying to convince us that the answer will never come. God doesn't care about you, he will say. You really don't matter, not to God or people, he will whisper in your ear. But Satan is a liar, and a delay is not a denial.
There are many times in our lives that we have to wait for an answer or solution to come, not because God doesn't care but because it is not time. We are apart of a great work and there is alway more going on than what we see. Our lives are pieces in the puzzle of life and many times there are things unseen to our eyes that have to come together for our lives to work out. It is in these moments of deferred hope that we have to trust that God is for us and not against us and he is working all things together for our good.
If your life lines up with God's word, then your dream/prayer will be fulfilled and as the Proverbs says, when it comes together, "it will be a tree of life". But until the pieces all fall and everything works out, you must keep your hope up. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, if you lose your hope you cripple your faith and without faith you can not receive anything from God. So the cure for a deferred hope is a big picture mentality and a confidence in the faithfulness of God
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ReplyDeleteSatan has deceived the whole world Rev 12:9 by his words in the book of the knowledge of good and evil, the Bible Gen 3:22, 2 Cor 11:15
ReplyDeletethat have not been rightly divided 2 Tim 2:15.
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