God's delays are deliberate....

(excerpt from a Joel Osteen blog....)

God’s delays are always deliberate; there is a reason for every closed door. There is a reason a promise has not yet come to pass. Many times God will close a door because we are thinking too small and he has something much greater in store for you. Just as God opens doors, he will close doors. On purpose he will delay things when he knows it’s not his best.


Your mind may be telling you its over, it’s too late, it’s never going to happen. The reason for the delay is that he is planning something greater. You are thinking of a healing, he is thinking of a resurrection. You may be thinking of how you will survive but God is thinking how you can thrive. Whenever you face a closed door, it seems like your dreams have died, it looks like God has sat down and the worst thing in the world happened. That is a sure sign that God is up to something big.

God’s delays are deliberate, just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God isn’t working. That delay, disappointment and interruption may look like your greatest attack. If you just stay in faith and keep being your best each day. One day you will look back and see how God used it for your greatest opportunity. The most high God is orchestrating it all, he is in complete control and he promises that all things are going to work together for your good.

Every setback is the not the enemy, every delay is not a mistake; every disappointment is not an accident. When you live with this confidence that the creator of the universe is directing your steps then you know that even a disappointment will ultimately work out for your good. You know God’s delays are deliberate. If something is not happening on your timetable then you best believe that it must be that God is planning something much bigger for you.

What may look like a mistake to you, what may seem like a disappointment doesn’t mean that God isn’t orchestrating it. You may never know why something is happening to you but you can rest assure that God somewhere someway is going to get something good out of it. Stay in faith keep believing your best days are still in front of you, if you have this right perspective then you will see God use you in amazing ways to help others and you will see God do amazing things in your own life. You will rise higher and higher accomplishing every dream, overcoming every obstacle, defeating every enemy. You will become everything God created you to be and you will have everything that God intended you to have.