The Gentle Heart of God // Defining Moments, Part 3

<p>Sometimes, we spend so much of our energies in believing that God will give us some breakthrough in our time of need, that we miss the fact that he’s already provided us with everything we need to get through those tough times.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>So Easy to Miss</strong></span></h3> <p>Sometimes we can be looking forward to something ... something that God will do; some defining moment in life, without realising what He has already done for us in the past. Let me give you an example: you are going through a tough time, perhaps some difficulty at work or in bringing up our children or in our marriages – we all go through those times. In fact it seems that there is never a time in life when there isn’t some pressure or difficulty in some part of our lives.</p> <p>And so we start praying feverishly for God to deliver us from those tough times. We start believing Him for a miracle and a breakthrough. Now that’s good; it’s a good thing to do but so many people do that at the expense of realising that the changes God has already made in us – deep within our hearts.</p> <p>Those changes are meant to help us to travel through those difficult times. Those changes are meant to make us a blessing to others in those dark times. Those changes are meant to make His light; His glory to shine through us out into a lost and hurting world.</p> <p>There is a saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." It’s absolutely right that we should pray about difficult situations but not at the expense of knowing and trusting in what God has already done; in what we already have in our hands.</p> <p>This is the third programme in a series that I have called <em>“Defining Moments”</em>. It is so often the case that minor and even major miracles come through the smallest and seemingly, most insignificant event in our lives. It’s a great thing about God – He gets involved in the smallest things in our lives.</p> <p>But sometimes ... sometimes He’s not so much about wanting to do something fresh an