Do you want to “lack nothing” in your life?
What is the purpose of a test? It is to measure your progress in a particular area. It reveals to you where you are at. FATHER already knows where you are on your path toward maturity. A test forces your perception to align with reality.
Resistance to your faith will promote growth if you embrace the correct mindset. Most of what you were born for is on the other side of adversity that confronts you. If you don’t know how to navigate through those times of adversity, you will not mature as quickly as you should.
King David wrote by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 40:
7 So I said, “Here I am! I’m coming to You as a sacrifice, for in the prophetic scrolls of Your Book You have written about me.
8 I delight to fulfill Your will, My God, for Your Living Words are written upon the pages of my heart.”
Each of us has a prophetic scroll containing FATHER’S Divine Intent for our life. As we are led by The Holy Spirit, we will ultimately fulfill that prophetic scroll. Don’t compare yourself to others. Your scroll is unique to you.
Will there be difficulties along the way in fulfilling your scroll? Absolutely! The adversary does not want you to succeed. He wants you to become complacent rather than passionate toward your calling. When difficulties arise, we must learn to manage the attitude of our heart and the confession of our tongue. If we do, we will advance in the most difficult seasons, in the midst of adversity.
You can dismantle what annoys you the most by simply moving into thankfulness.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in his epistle, James chapter 1:
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
3 For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up in you the power of endurance.
4 And then as your endurance grows even stronger, it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking.
Can you walk in joy when adversity confronts you? Your response will reveal where your maturity level is at. Are you at peace or are you fighting fear, frustration, or calamity?
When you mature in the area of endurance, perfection is released into every area of your being, then you will lack nothing! If you seem to be at an impasse, seek FATHER’S Wisdom in dealing with the adversity before you.
5 And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for Wisdom and He will give it! He won’t see your lack of Wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but He will overwhelm your failures with His generous grace.
6 Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and tossed down the next.
7-8 When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition?
A double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. We are to give thanks in the midst of a trial, knowing that the testing of our faith produces patience. When patience is perfected, we will be complete, lacking nothing!