Make a Wish!

Have you ever had someone break their promises to you or have you broken promises that you've made? It is a simple but not always easy thing to keep a promise.  In seeing so many promises broken, it became hard for me to depend on anyone's words including my own, and this is what has been challenged most recently in my life.  I have kids and adults ask sometimes how I know that God is real.  One of my  answers of late is simply that I have tried his promises and they stick!

My pastor this month challenged me to the promise of John 15:7  which says,"If ye abide in my, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."  What a powerful promise!  These are the words of Jesus, and he is saying here that if we stick with him and his words stay with us then we can ask for what we desire and it will be done!   That is not much of an investment with a monumental return.  If it seems too good to be true then I challenge you to TRY IT!  I have never followed the word of God and not gotten the results.  It does require that I stretch my faith, but I like that part.  This is after all a journey of faith.

So what do you wish?! I was doing my devotion this morning and I felt the question come up, "what do you hope for, what do you expect, and what do you desire?"  These are very important questions for me because I have to know what I want in order to ask for it.  These are also important questions to me because they inform me as to why I am taking a certain path in my journey of faith.  Even my business mentors tell me the most important thing to establish in my business is my "WHY" Every person who makes a decision to cultivate a relationship with God through Jesus Christ is looking for something out of that relationship.  Be honest with yourself about what you desire from your relationship with God and what you are willing to put into your journey with him.  The ultimately goal is oneness with God, but we have little goals too. What do you dream about?

 God already knows your dreams so you might as well speak it and ask for it.  There is one thing about wishing that I saw in a movie called "The Wishing Well".  There were 2 rules to the wishing well
The first is it has to be the right wish.  My pastor said that our relationship with God will inform our requests which I also agree with. The second rule is, you have to believe. The word says in Hebrews 11:6,  "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."  With all of this in mind I am making my requests known unto God and I have high expectation.  How about you?

Here are the 4 steps of the promise again
1. Stay/abide in Jesus
2. The Word must abide/stay in you
3. Ask what you will
4. It will be done

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