Your Wings Are Coming

Pastor Joel 

Many times circumstances we see will tell us we're stuck.

So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:18 NLT

Don't be moved by what you see, be moved by what you know. 

There's nothing about a Caterpillar's circumstances that insinuate that it will ever fly but there's something in his DNA that says otherwise.

There was a drought but Elijah chose to believe what God said

Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there  is the sound of abundance of rain."

I Kings 18:41 NKJV

You can't live a butterfly life with Caterpillar thoughts.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2 NKJV

Faith won't always make sense.

Elijah sent his servant looking for signs of rain 7 times.

....and said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked, and said, " There  is nothing." And seven times he said, "Go again." Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "There is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your  chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.' "

I Kings 18:43‭-‬44 NKJV

Sometimes things will get worse before they get better even if you're doing the right thing. 

A lot of the time things will get worse before they get better 

A catepillar goes into a cocoon, a dark uncomfortable season, and loses his mobility even though he was believing for wings.

December 2002 after city council voted for Lakewood to have the Compaq Center the company that owned the surrounding property filed a federal law suit and their legal team gave them no hope. The CEO of the company scheduled a meeting and come to find out he watched Lakewood weekly and the CEO's son-in-law was a youth pastor. At the end of the meeting he decided to drop the lawsuit and lease parking.

Abraham and Sarah

Sarah was the wife of Abraham. Hagar was the servant of Sarah. God had promised Abraham many descendants, but, ten years after the promise, Sarah was still unable to have children, and they were both on the verge of becoming too old to have children at all. Sarah chose to give her servant Hagar to Abraham, in accordance with the custom of day, so that Sarah could have a child through her (Genesis 16:2). 

Sarah thought someone else had to fly for her. What God put on Sarah's heart was still on the way and didn't require them to figure out a way to make it happen.

Don't reduce what God promised you to your thinking. If you could do it in your own power then you wouldn't need faith.

You never see a catepillar riding piggyback on a butterfly.

Are you praying that the furniture will go on sale so you can afford it or are you praying that God blesses you with resources to afford it even if it doesn't go on sale

Sometimes we're praying for things to go down when we should be praying that our thinking comes up.

-Jeanicia R. Elder