#DON'T STOP BELIEVING!
9-Years Ago on TODAY, July 17, 2004...
My Beloved & Departed Wife (12.31.09) Charlene and I were moving to the West Coast, from Salisbury, Maryland to Los Angeles, California, on a first class plane ride into "Sunny California"...
We were both so excited, but - Charlene especially, because it was her "dying wish" to live in Cali, and without my "spiritual" awareness, it would become "her time of crossing-over into God's eternal promise and resting place"!
From the moment our feet hit the soil in Orange County (Costa Mesa) California, where our first apartment was located, there was a sense of anticipation and expectancy "around God doing something extraordinary in our lives"; but, soon after arriving and getting settled in the new consulting opportunity with new people and new surroundings - all the doors that were initially opened to us, quickly and unexpectedly closed; and without family and friends to help us, we would have become homeless, without a sustainable income to support or sustain us, in our faith steps into our "promised land"..
Now, here I am, nine years to the day, and I'm STILL BELIEVING that God is going to "do what HE said", no matter how it looks, how long its been, and no matter how dark the process - I've made it this far, BY FAITH!
When I woke up this morning, I didn't realize the significance of the moment and this day, till The Lord reminded me "from whence that I've come", and with "few" natural prospects to get excited about on the immediate horizon - "heralding a triumphant or successful outlook of the future", is NOT idiocy or lunacy in ignoring the realities before me - its called, "faith in God"...
As I typed the last sentence, I just heard the old hymnal fill my chest..."My HOPE is built on nothing less, than Jesus' blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sicking sand. All other ground is sinking sand."
As I continue to reflect upon what I KNOW about God - and what He has done "in me" and "for me", I realize that with all the unanswered questions and troubling circumstances that I've faced - just this year, I have GROWN leaps and bounds beyond all of the heart-wrenching and earth-shattering situations that could have potentially "altered my confession"; but, I will NOT GIVE UP, and I declare - the best is yet too come!
Before writing this, a good friend of mine reached out to encourage me about the peculiar ministry that I've been given a stewardship of. There are certain days that I deeply contemplate and wonder, why I've been given such a challenging task - to a generation with no loyalties to anything or anyone; no limitations on what is possible; and no lamentations about the path to success, with the boldness to do whatever takes, to achieve it!
Somehow, I've chosen to embrace the road less traveled, and I'm earnestly pressing into HIM - so that my heart does not faint at the sight of circumstantial-similarities, as the first nine months of our introduction to this unusual landscape..
Now, nine-years later, a major birthing is occurring in my life, and I'm going to LET the timing of God's Purpose "take lead" - as I REST in the ultimate reality that "God is NOT a man that HE should lie, or the son of man that HE should repent. Has HE said, and will HE not do? Or has HE spoken, and will HE not make it good?" (Numbers 23:19)
In the same passage (verses 20-26), Balaam speaks the most profound words to Balak - about "the power of God's blessing" that speaks to its TRANSCENDENT and TRIUMPHANT influence; no matter how much the enemy and the curse seem to prevail, during times of great difficulty and stress.
When we really began to understand that "God ALWAYS keeps HIS covenant", we're moved - even less, by the circumstances that we must confront on the road to purpose and destiny, and NOW I'm sure that I can't STOP BELIEVING, and neither should you!
#It's-A-New-Day! WS-3
Walter L. Smith III (WS-3), Apostolic Founder/Lead Facilitator
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www.PIHIM.org
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