What God Has Prepared

I hope this message encourages you today because if Jesus Christ has saved you, you have already been seated in the heavenly places by God. A reward awaits you, and glory is unimaginable for your devoted service to the Lord. As you strive to serve and obey the Lord, you build more treasure and glory daily. In God’s time, the Lord will be pleased to shower many blessings upon you according to His will and plan.

Though perhaps for many days, weeks, months, and even years, you may be burdened with incredible struggles. Desiring to be free of this painful worldly experience and sinful desires of the body. To be with the Lord, enjoying His marvelous glory, worshiping Him, comforted by His grace, and praising Him for all eternity.

You may desire to be clothed in His righteousness and glorified body. To truly be free from the bonds of sin and pain. But God has a purpose and plan for every ounce of pain and struggle. Yet, for now, you remain. Trust God because He is still working, moving, molding, shaping, and directing your steps, not just for you but for many others whom your life will touch for His glory and honor.

Just think, He has always known you would be right here, right now. He has planned out your life and prepared great things for you to do for His Kingdom since before the foundation of the world. Don’t think for a moment that God abandoned you. Never have you been truly alone. You have never been forgotten or forsaken. The Lord will never let His children go.

But He has loved you with an eternal love beyond all comprehension. He lovingly provides everything you need, both the good and the bad. All for your good and benefit. He will continue to bless you here and above at the right moment. Just wait and see.

He is with you, close by you, caring for you in every way and every moment. He will do so until your work on earth is done. Any other voice that says otherwise is a liar. Any other word that says He is not there for you is not from God. Do not listen to discouragement because that is from the devil.

So face your fears and grasp onto the Lord Jesus Christ with all your might. His promises are true, and He will never fail to accomplish them. Run to Him, serve Him, obey Him, wait for Him to move, live for Him, and have faith in Him with every fiber of your being. Then, see what great, amazing, and awesome things He will do through you. All glory, honor, and praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ.

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent, we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling if, indeed, by putting it on, we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 2 Corinthians 5:1-10