Diligently ~ Morning Manna

It’s a marvelous Monday. I pray that everyone is getting ready for an awesome day. I don’t know if you know this, but we have 64 days left in this year. Then we are not just entering a new year but a whole new decade. What goals did you want to accomplish this year and it hasn’t happened yet? Well, it's go time. It’s the final quarter with time left on the clock. What is your faith looking like? Yesterday when Raymond mentioned someone having a 300-credit score going to look for a car, that is not just faith. That’s crazy faith. I want us all to have that kind of faith. 

Have you ever believed for something to happen in your life while others look at you like you’d lost your mind? But you just believed in the impossible. That’s faith. But how do you get that kind of faith? Do you just have it? Can you just get it? Is there an app for that? Enquiring minds want to know. 

I know for me, I had to endure some hard knocks to finally get it. Honestly, I think that after enough cries out to God and watching how He worked things out for my good I began to have some "aha" moments. Then after witnessing some of His goodness regularly I began to say, “Oh, God’s got this!” Think about some of the songs you hear. 

“God did, God did it. He’s done just what He said.” ~ Dorinda Clark -Cole

“Only believe that all things are possible.” ~ Yolanda Adams

“We have everything we need.” Kanye West

Let’s look at Hebrews 11:6 (AKJV)

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Understand this, half-hearted seeking finds nothing. Think about those times as a child when our parents asked us to go get something or go find something and we come back empty handed. What would they ask us, “Did you even look for it?” That was often followed up with, “Now, if I have to get up to find it, we are going to have some problems.” Then we would go back and diligently seek it until we found it because we didn’t want those problems. Interrupted seeking will find little, but when we diligently seek or earnestly seek, we will find what we are looking for. And, didn’t we want to please our parents? Well, isn’t God our Father? Don’t we want to please Him? 

In our relationship with God we have to diligently seek Him. When we do this, it shows God our faith in Him and that pleases Him. We then have to believe that He is God all by Himself (He don't need any help. He can handle things on His own), that he’s everything we need, that with Him all things are possible and that He’s gonna do just what He said He was going to do. Then afterwards He rewards us with good and perfect gifts, with so much that we can’t contain it and they’ll even be sometimes when we won’t be able to explain all that He’s done for us. 

I looked up the word diligently and saw that it means steadfast, painstaking, without haste or early. Not necessarily early, like in the morning, rather as soon as you get a bad report seek him. 

Proverbs 8:17 

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me(KJV). The (ASV) reads, I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

God wants us to seek Him sooner than right now and quicker than not yet. With some crazy faith, let’s finish the year strong.