You’re anointed to deal with the Sauls, the jealous people. You’re anointed to overlook insults. You’re anointed to take new ground, to break barriers that have held your family back.
With every new dream God puts in your heart, with every new assignment, comes a fresh anointing, fresh faith, fresh boldness, fresh favor. Your slingshot, with the anointing of God, is more powerful than a huge giant with a full set of armor.
God didn’t change His mind about your purpose. He didn’t disqualify you because you made a mistake. He hasn’t forgotten about you out in the desert. You may have been there a long time, but this is a new day. Get your fire back. Get your passion back. It’s still going to happen.
The people who God has ordained love you no matter what. They accept you. They come when you don’t call. They show up when you didn’t ask. They laugh with you, cry with you. They don’t judge you. They’re a divine connection. God ordained them to be there.
Yes, they may have done you wrong, betrayed you, left you out, but God is your vindicator. He’ll take care of who hurt you. But if you let that bitterness get on the inside, it’s going to poison the next relationship. You have to be at peace with who left.
Delays, detours, and disappointments come to us all. We worked hard, but our nets are empty. That’s not the end of your story. Scripture says that through faith and patience we inherit the promises.
The disappointment may not go away, but you can change its position. You can put it under your feet. Keep your heart pure. Keep honoring God and He said He’ll turn it into a footstool. A footstool is not just something to rest your feet on; it can be something to take you higher.
The grace is there to handle it. God doesn’t let you face anything that’s too much. You have what it takes to not be offended, to not live defensively, to not let what they say get down in your spirit, to ignore the unfair criticism, to not be baited into conflict. God wouldn’t have given you the blessing if He hadn’t given you the grace to handle it.
That storm feels like it’s taking you to a barren place, a dry place, a lonely place. But God controls the winds. You can’t see it right now, but the storm is taking you to an abundant place, a place of healing, a place of miracles, a place of increase, a place of favor.
God doesn’t define you by your mistakes; He refines you by your mistakes. He uses the failures, the times we blow it, the times we go the wrong way, to do a work in us.
The good news is God doesn’t judge you by one mistake, or by two mistakes, or by five thousand mistakes. His calling on your life is irrevocable. You may have counted yourself out, but God has already counted you in. He chose you before you could choose Him.
Taking matters into your own hands, trying to prove to people who you are, that’s not the way to deal with enemies. You’re letting the hurt, the bitterness reign. The Scripture says, “Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool.” Sitting means you’re at peace, you’re trusting God to fight your battles, you know He’s going to make it up to you.
Worrying about the situation is not going to make it better. Worrying is working. Living offended is working. Being discouraged, thinking about how impossible it looks—that’s working. Take the pressure off. You’re trying to do everything in your own strength. God wants you to depend on Him.
God being for you is more than what’s trying to stop you. Whatever enemies are coming against you today, you need to have a picture of them under your feet. Addiction is under your feet. Sickness and cancer are under your feet. Fear is your footstool.
You were doing the right thing and the wrong thing happened. God wouldn’t have allowed it if it wasn’t going to work for your good somehow. It may have come in as an enemy, but God knows how to turn it into a footstool, into something that propels you further.
God didn’t change His mind about your purpose. He didn’t disqualify you because you made a mistake. He hasn’t forgotten about you out in the desert. You may have been there a long time, but this is a new day.
Start choosing to be happy. We can’t get away from negative circumstances. Having faith won't keep you from trouble, bad breaks, and people doing you wrong. But those things don’t have to take your joy. You’re in control of your happiness.
David said in Psalm 144, “Happy are the people whose God is the Lord.” Sometimes when we look at our circumstances, there’s nothing to be happy about. But the reason we can be happy is because our God is on the throne.
Everything that you’ve been through is preparing you for where God is taking you. It may not be comfortable. It may not be fair but God is going to use it to position you for the assignment that He’s placed on your life.