Circumstances Vs. God's Promises!!!

As we run the race that is called life we continue to find ourselves bombarded by many circumstances. Some we have no control over while others we have actually walked into due to some decisions we made on our part. While most of us will complain about the circumstances we have no control over and how they affect our lives we can be honest and say they do not affect God’s Promises to us. There are so many of us in the body of Christ today that receive a “Word” from God and as soon as our circumstances change that “Word” changes. This happens in relationships that God speaks to us about, finances, stewardship, family issues, etc… God may have told us to be still in regards to changing jobs or to move with the glory cloud because our season at this present job was up. Yet when something changes; whether a new job opened and we were supposed to stay or the job we thought we were going to be receiving because our season was up did not come through so now we are staying, because of these circumstances all of a sudden the “Word” God gave us a day, week, month, or year ago has somehow changed along with your circumstances. When we read the word of God we see that His promises to His children never change. When He promised Abraham at the age of 75 that he and Sarah would have a child, God did not change that promise in the 25 years it took it to come to fruition. But because Abraham was getting older and his circumstances were changing he thought he could help God out or that God’s promise had to be carried out in a different manner than in the way He proclaimed it. Abraham created Ishmael because he wouldn’t wait on the promises of God. How many of us today are creating Ishmaels because we keep allowing our circumstances to either change the meaning of what God spoke to us or we simply turn aside to our own ways. God is that same yesterday, today and tomorrow and so are His the promises to His Children!!! Stand on His Promises and show your circumstances the Power of God!!! Have a wonderful life of circumstances on purpose!!!!!

Genesis 15

God's Covenant With Abram
1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, [a] your very great reward. [b] "
2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit [c] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Genesis 16

Hagar and Ishmael
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me."

Genesis 21

The Birth of Isaac
1 Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac [a] to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me." 7 And she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."