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Confident
Living
by Rev.
Myrl Eddings
Our
attitude matters a great deal. I’m
learning in my latter years to focus on the good things of God. We should be careful not to have a gloom and doom
mentality. Trials are sure to come our way.
But we need to realize that we have a royal lineage and that God is on our side always and
will deliver us if we maintain the right frame of mind.
I’ve learned to praise the Lord in everything. If He is on our side, what can the devil do to us? Satan is only a tool in the hand of God and can go
only as far as he is allowed to go. Once, I
was reluctant to testify after hearing skeptics warn of impending defeat as a result of
the devil’s vengeance for having made claims of the Lord’s works. I began to realize, however, that He is able to
keep those things which I have committed to Him (II Timothy 1:12) I’m aware that God, and not myself, is able
to perform all things on my behalf. Being
friends with Him, I feel confident in going to the Lord in times of trouble and trust Him
for things that I can’t accomplish myself. Friends
will do favors for other friends. Everything’s
alright as long as we keep Jesus as our partner and hold ownership in possessions
together.
We’re often
unhappy, dwelling on negative things. There
will always be issues to discourage us if our focal point is grounded in negativity. Thank the Lord that, while I’m not where I’m
going, I’m not where I used to be. God
has been good to me from birth. Even as a
child, I would feel at times as the Lord was watching me…and He probably was! As a first-grader, my mother had been given up for
dead being in the advanced stages of cancer. After
my minister uncle prayed for her healing she got off the operating table shouting before
the Lord, miraculously healed. She raised
three preachers and lived many years after that to the ripe age of 93 years. Numerous instances of healing have occurred just
in my family including my sister and children. God
will hear prayer if we’ll seriously petition his aid.
The Church needs
to prosper in all areas so that we can assist those in need. The Lord desires us to ride on high places. He has called us out as separate people, being in
the world but not of the world. The
sooner we can recognize God’s providence and praise Him for His goodness, the sooner
we can experience the fullness of His Spirit. Sometimes
we are selective in our faith. “Believers”
will trust the Lord for some things, and doubt that He’ll do another for us. The only reason God fails to provide in certain
situations is that our faith fails in those times of weakness. Jesus invited any and all who would to come and
drink of the water of life freely. Condemnation
bombards us and we’re convinced that the Lord will not intervene in our time of need. But when God puts His Spirit in a person all is
changed. The inheritance of all that is His,
belongs to us. It’s time that we realize
that we’re the most blessed people on earth, with every reason to be happy, in spite
of temporary circumstances. Jesus is Lord and
has embodied His children. All who have been
born again by the Holy Ghost have the promise and seal of eternal life. We don’t have to live under the curse of the
enemy because God lifted the curse off of us. We
have power over the devil unless we yield to him.
The Lord is able
to open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that we’re unable to receive
if we’ll just believe Him for them (Malachi 3:10).
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