BE QUICK!

Luke 24:25 “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!”

I don’t know about you, but some days I can be quick about doing things, really on the ball, and then there are days when I feel like a tortoise and can’t seem to get going. Maybe you find that as well, but no matter what type of day we’re having God wants us to be quick about certain things for our own benefit. 

First He wants us to be quick to repent because He knows the longer we take to say sorry or to change our minds to come in line with His word, the harder it can be to do it. When we repent straight away the enemy has no chance to get a foothold because we know we’re already forgiven and have received God’s forgiveness and Satan has no hold on us.

Then God wants us to be quick to forgive. He has forgiven us now we can forgive. That’s not always easy is it, but forgiveness isn’t a feeling but an act of our will, an act of obedience to the Lord’s command to forgive our debtors. Sometimes the very act of saying ‘I forgive you’ (whether we feel like it or not) will release the feelings to follow in due course and it includes forgiving ourselves too. God says we can do all things through Christ, with the help of His Holy Spirit. We just have to be willing to do it or at least ask the Lord to help us be willing.🙂

Last of all He says to be quick to believe. Sometimes we read things in scripture, or hear a word of prophecy and maybe we’re reluctant to believe it. We reason it out, we’re sceptical or cynical and we’re a bit slow to believe. We even put past experience above God’s word and we chose to believe it rather than the Word of God. Ever done that?

When God gives us a word in scripture He doesn’t want us to debate it, He wants us to be quick to believe it, take it as read, act on it and run with it. James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  When we’re quick to repent, quick to forgive and quick to believe we open the door wide for the healing power of God to flow in us as well.🙂

Smith Wigglesworth said, “There’s just something about believing God that will cause God to pass over a million people just to get to you.”

Lord as we go through this week, help us to be quick to repent, quick to forgive and quick to believe and be blessed indeed. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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