TAKE ME BEYOND MY EXPECTATIONS OH LORD (18)

Post date: Aug 27, 2019 3:46:18 AM

Going beyond that expectation is what God intends for you in life as you put your trust, your hope, your strength, and your focus on Him. While you aim at achieving your dreams and best desires in this life, God aims at something bigger and better than dreams and desires for you. While you work to see your dreams and desires fulfilled, God uses those dreams and those desires to wake you up from aimlessness, to keep you motivated, to train you for something higher, to keep you hopeful for better end-results, to keep willing to make sacrifices, and to be prepared even for things He did not show you in your best dreams and desires. It is because of God’s higher intents for your life that you realize immediately after achieving one dream another dream pops you and keep you going again, after seeing one desire fulfilled another one comes up again begging for urgent attention and living become a challenge of always fulfilling dreams and desires and the devil becomes an enemy, an adversary, and a tormentor, doing all he wants and can to stop you and stop the drive for what God intends because what Satan wants for you is not what God wants for you despite your dreams and desires.

God gives us dreams so we can fulfill them while living, He gave us dreams so we can be inspired to desire them and be fulfilled in living. God did not give us dreams and desires as a punishment or something that will destroy us. God’s given dreams are pointers to something better and bigger to come and the desires we have in them gives hope and draws us closer to God's bigger intent in our lives. But as you trust God, He will in His ways and manner blessed you when you honor Him while pursuing those desires driven by your dreams irrespective of the circumstances that Satan by using his wicked human agents had put in place to torment, to humiliate, and to discourage you. But in all situations, irrespective of who and what may be on your way, God will be glorified in you and in His plans for your life.

The original intent in the hearts and minds of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego and all of their  desires in life was not in any way to disrespect king Nebuchadnezzar, or disrespect his commands or dishonor his position; the desire was to worship only the Almighty God irrespective of the circumstances, the location and whatever any man may say or do against them. Unknown to them was that God was also watching and well prepared to defend, to rescue, to restore, to bless and to honor them in return, unknown to them was that was about to take them far beyond the very best of that desire and expectations, unknown to them also was that God was to unlock the things that had prevented His plans for them individually and collectively. Their desire brought them into conflict with those in authority who intended evil for them, it brought them into an open and personal confrontation with king Nebuchadnezzar, but despite all the conflicts and confrontations and all those who were involved, these three men never shifted from their original desire in life, they never compromised and they never in any way regretted their actions despite what the saw, what they knew will happen to them and what they experienced.

Did you know God able to stop Nebuchadnezzar on his tracks but He allowed him to continue? Did you know God was able to stop the finance and the fire but He chooses to allow them to carry out their imagination and did not stop them? But despite their perfected best intentions of destroying Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the furnace with fire, God was there ready to take these three men far beyond the expectations of those men despite their well planned and perfected evil thoughts and actions. God was there to take  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego even above their own expectations and personal desires. God was there to honor them instead of dishonoring them, God was there to raise them to new heights in life instead of humiliated them, God was there to reward them for their desires to worship Him instead of the golden café of Nebuchadnezzar and God did it right before the watching eyes of their wicked enemies. Prayer Request Click here