Are You Sabotaging Your Future?

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Are You Sabotaging Your Future?

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

God knows what He has planned for your life. Fact is, whenever God looks at you He is reminded of all the good things He still has in store for you, the better things than what you are experiencing today. God sees your future when He looks at you because He engraved it on your spirit pre-earth already!

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Generation One of the Exodus  sabotaged their future. They kept focusing on what they did not have,  what they could not do, and how impossible God's plan for them was. They loved to spend their days just murmuring and complaining to each other from their tent doors about how they could not take it anymore, about how bad things were for them, and about how much better slavery to the Egyptians was than all this hot desert, no water, and no meat was.

This Generation was not thankful to God for all He had done, was doing, nor for the good plans He had revealed to them about their future. All they could see was the bad here-and-now, choosing not to focus on the land of milk and honey that lay ahead, waiting for them. That Generation basically talked themselves out of God's best for them. 

Compare this to David and you see someone who endured hardships just as Generation One did, who also perhaps wondered if things would ever change for him, but who decided to trust God anyway and to thank God daily for His goodness in his life. 

David's end was good, unlike Generation One who wandered around the desert for forty years and were buried in their misery because of their ungrateful hearts. They chose not to put their hope in God that things would change, and they got what they hoped for: Nothing. David, on the other hand, became  a wealthy, very loved and still-respected king of Israel! His legacy still lives on today; his name is still revered in Israel. Yet not one of those complainers are remembered at all! 

Search your heart with the Holy Spirit today then answer these questions truthfully:

Who am I most like?

Am I sabotaging my own future?

Am I more like Generation One who loved to complain and murmur against God, perpetually ungrateful and unthankful? Do I always want more but am never willing to put faith to what you believe?

Or are I more like king David, thankful to God in everything, rarely complaining, just always grateful and always seeing His goodness toward me despite what is happening around me? 

If you want to see positive changes in your life, if you want to see God's goodness manifested in your life, if you want the abundant life Christ died to give you, then you must not be found gossiping, hating on others, murmuring or complaining by God the Father. You cannot be both pitiful and powerful! Choose one then live by the Algorithm, the leading, of the Spirit!

God said that those who diligently seek Him in faith will find Him and He will bless them exceeding abundantly above all they could ever ask or think!

God cannot lie. He has a good future planned with your name on it. 

Stop Sabotaging your future by confessing wrong things.

Start speaking your future into existence by saying what God says about you, that you are blessed, highly-favoured and on your way to living in and enjoying His Better Things for your life! 

Meaghan Spies © 2022