Job 5:8 If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him. (Nlt) v.9 After all, He's famous for great and unexpected acts, there's no end to his surprises. (The Message)
Do you like lovely surprises? I do and this verse reminds us that God likes to surprise us.
If we're not careful we put God in a box of what we think we know about Him and forget He's far bigger and more powerful than we'll ever understand. We may even have limited Him without realising it when we think "Well there's no way God can change this circumstance, or change their attitude. I've had this health problem for so long I just put up with it." But I believe God loves it when we go to Him in faith and ask for the impossible, the unlikely, the 'who would have thought it' answers to our prayers! I think He likes us to ask big and our verse says to present our case to Him and to expect Him to surprise us.
We only have to read through the Old Testament accounts of the amazing things God did for His people to realise nothing is impossible with Him and for Him, and He's the same yesterday, today and forever so He's never changed. The book of Acts shows the launching of the church by a dozen uneducated men who were filled with the Spirit of God and God did many miraculous deeds through them so we don't have to be clever, we just need to believe!
Maybe it's time we repented of our unbelief and go to the Lord knowing nothing is too hard or big for Him to deal with and ask Him to show us His ways and His unexpected acts, to surprise us.
When we do we can then be encouraged to believe He's answering us by this verse:
Psalm 21:2 For you have given him his heart's desire; you have withheld nothing he requested.
Let's believe God will surprise us.😊
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