good...no, great...stuff!

So, I heard another wonderful sermon from Pastor Joel Osteen. I watched it first thing when I got up today.

What an encouraging word!

Genesis 18:14 – “Is anything too hard or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season comes around, I will return to you and Sarah shall have borne a son.”

God has a plan, and God has a season, and that is the season of blessing and of harvest.

I am lining up with God’s Word, and God’s plan, and saying, “Lord, I believe.” I believe that this is going to be a great year, a year of supernatural blessing and abundance for me. Blessings that I do not deserve and could never earn are coming my way, because my God loves me and chooses to (and delights in) blessing me, He wants to give me the desires of my heart, He sees the deep inner desires of my innermost being and He longs to bring those things to fruition in my life.

Pastor Osteen told the true story of a little girl who wanted a kitten. More than anything else, she wanted to have a kitten. But her mom did not want the responsibility of having an animal in the house, so she kept saying no. But the little girl kept asking her mom, “Mom can I have a kitten?” feeling exasperated by the situation, the mom told the little girl, “Look, if God reaches down and gives you a free kitten, then I will let you keep it. But if God doesn’t give you one, then you can’t have one, okay?” So, the little girl immediately went out in the back yard, got down on her knees, and prayed to God that He would send her a kitten, while her amused mother looked on.

Suddenly, at the exact moment that the little girl finished praying, she looked up and saw a little kitten drop out of the sky and land in front of her in the back yard. The mother ran outside and looked up into the sky – there was no tree in their yard, nothing that the cat could have dropped out of – it simply seemed to have appeared out of thin air. As she gaped at the sky, her daughter picked up the kitten and said, “Look mom, God gave me a kitten, just like I asked for!”

It wasn’t until a few months later that they heard the rest of the story. A neighbour, who lived down the block, had a little kitten stuck in a tree in his yard. He was trying to get the kitten out of the tree, but it was just out of his reach. So, he tied a rope to the tree and to the bumper of his car, and slowly drove his car forward, bending the tree over close to the ground. But, before he could rescue the young cat, the rope slipped off the tree, catapulting (pun intended) the kitten 200 yards through the air, where it landed at the feet of the little girl who prayed the prayer of faith. The poor man thought he had surely killed this poor cat, but instead God used the situation to bless a little girl and to prove His faithfulness.

God desires to bless us. God desires to bless me. And He will. He is. I accept it, I believe it.

This year, I am believing for my financial situation to improve. This year, I am believing that my work situation will continue to improve. This year, I am believing that I will get established in a body of believers. This year, I am believing for some good and supportive Christian friends. This year, I am believing that God will use me in the lives of others. This year, I am believing that God will draw me to Himself, that He will lead me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake, that He will open my eyes to the wonder of Who He is and cause me to grow more and more in love with Him. This year, I believe that the woman God has for me, will be revealed to me, and it’ll be truly a match made in heaven. This year, I am believing that my daughter and I will grow closer together, and that I will see God becoming more real to her and more important to her in her life. This year, this is my year, this is my year to receive God’s good gifts into my life, and to be used of God. This is my destiny, and nothing is going to stop that from happening.

Is anything too hard for God? Is anything too wonderful for God to do?

I say, no. I say, “Lord, I believe.” He will do the rest.