Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.

So God asks this guy if He can do anything for him.
The guy responds and says, “I’d really like to be able to drive to Hawaii on a bridge across the ocean.”
God says, “that’s a really big request even for me…isn’t there something else you’d like instead?”
The guy thinks for a minute and says, “OK I’d really like to understand the female mind”
After a minute God asks, “did you want that bridge 2 or 4 lanes?”

Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

James 4:14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Have you found yourself in a place where your dreams aren’t happening the way you wanted them to happen? Maybe God hasn’t shown up for you how you thought He would or should. Maybe you need a reminder that you are not in control and need to put your faith in the one who always is in control. Sometimes God is just tying to get you to a place were you are willing to surrender your plans so you are able to receive His plans because His will far exceed your own.

Abraham and Sarah wanted a child more than anything but it wasn’t until Abraham was 100 years old did God give him and Sarah the son He had promised to them. – Gen 21:1-5 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

God test Abraham’s faith yet again telling him to take his only son and offer him as a sacrifice. That is crazy but Abraham followed what God said! – Gen 22:1-2 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Right as Abraham was about to do what was asked of him he was stopped and his son’s life was saved. – Gen 22:11-12 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

Sometimes all I can do is laugh at what God shows me once I act in faith and listen to Him. I dare you to try it sometime!

Proverbs 19:11 A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.

Psalms 56:3 When I am afraid, I will trust in you.