Have you ever felt incredible blessed at one moment because of something you had once prayed about and God said
NO!?
You had at once prayed for this very thing to happen, and it didn’t. At that time you didn’t understand it but then one day it finally clicked, it all suddenly made sense. Things all of a sudden line up in a line and you were able to see the answer to why…I like to call those
GOD WINKS!
I totally had a GOD WINK the other day! And I thanked God…really for an unanswered prayer!
I heard once that every prayer that you have ever stays with God, well until He says no, because remember God’s time is nothing compared to ours. So if you were really truly think about that…wow…what if you had prayed to liked prayed, “dear GOD please cut my head off right now it’s killing me!” That might be a little TOO extreme, how about, “wow God I would do anything to lose weight, and I would stop eating chocolate for the rest of my life!” Now these might be really silly but sit back and really ponder these things…think back to those prayers that you might still have floating up there!
Okay that was just a side note; sorry sometimes my mind wanders…
OKAY BACK TO THE STORY:
My God wink was unexpected and kind of cool…I was on my way home from Valpo…thinking about something I had been praying about for some time that I had decided was not worth my time and energy to think about anymore…not that it was bad I just kind of knew in the back of my mind that it wasn’t going to happen. I had already given the situation to God. One of my really good friends Marissa Olvera and my cousin Kailey Gunter can attest to this because while we were at Meijer a month ago at 5 am in the morning we were discussing this very same thing.
(BY THE WAY TOTAL SIDE NOTE...YOU CANNOT SIT ON THE MANIACAL HORSE UNLESS YOU ARE FIVE! BECAUSE YOU WILL GET YELLED AT BY A LADY THAT SOUNDS LIKE ROZ FROM MONSTERS INC...NOT THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT..I AM JUST SAYING)…Well, while coming home the other day, it was nice enough to have the windows down, it hit me! GOD totally answered my prayer in a way I never expected and I was okay with it…as I sat there trying to go over all the things in my head and how they all added up and thoughts and events crossed each other
I UNDERSTOOD!!!
MY GOD WINK!
So all this got me thinking and this is what I came up with…. (Brace yourself!)
I believe that the moment I said that I wasn’t going to think about it anymore was the day that God knew I trusted Him…and I did. I put all my trust into Him!…
Obedience has a lot to do with God Winks…scratch that
OBEDIENCE HAS
EVERYTHING TO DO WITH
GOD WINKS!!!
For example take Ruth from the bible. (as another side note Ruth is someone I look up to in the bible and her story is one of my favorites!)
Ruth lost her husband and decided to go against everything she knew. Even though Naomi, her mother in-law, was telling her to back to her country. Ruth stayed with Naomi. Ruth was a young lady that could have possibly gotten married again and live comfortably, but she decided to not think about it and have faith. She was determined!
6 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
As a result of her faithfulness God gave Ruth her very own GOD WINK! And what did Ruth get as her GOD WINK? She trusted God and he sent her a man named Boaz and he was a man that took care of her when he didn’t have to. Hmm and remember she gave birth to a son named Obed who was the grandfather of DAVID….. The perfect GOD WINK!
Soooo…….?
….. What did I learn from all this
God Winks take three things:
First and foremost OBEDIENCE-God smiles over obedience
SECOND Patience-remember in GOD’s timing-have FAITH!!!!
And last but not least an open heart- when we open our heart it opens up our eyes…So basically willingness!
So if you are dealing with something, ask God to reveal to you what’s best....obey Him, have patience, and an open heart……with all that you are a triple threat and can’t be beat!
I pray that you find your GOD WINK, and when you do remember to thank the one that gave it to you!!!!
"Maybe there are things you cant see
And all those things are happening
To bring a better ending
Someday somehow you'll see you'll see
Would you dare would you dare to believe
That you still have a reason to sing
Cause the pain that you've been feeling
It cant compare to the joy that's coming
So hold on you gotta wait for the light
Press on and just fight the good fight
Cause the pain that you've been feeling
Its just the dark before the morning"
(Before the Morning-Josh Wilson)