Author name: Gracious Women

All this time you may have been focused on your problems because you want to get out of them, but you have been focusing on the wrong thing. If you want to get out of a situation,
“Don’t focus on that situation but rather focus on the solution”.

Unfortunately, the perverse nature of our generation has made many find gratification in misplacing these senses.
Perhaps the nose for sight, the tongue for smell, the eye for touch perception, etc.

God is bound to a certain level of abstinence by His words and principles and so must be given access to certain levels of control in order to take full control. This is to say we must consciously invite Him into our decision making and yield to Him completely trusting that whatever He decides is best for us. No second-guessing it.

If you, being like or better than that teacher, writer, public speaker, preacher, employee, student, is targeted at bringing them down so that you can be above them, then, it’s a destructive comparison.

Isaac was a seed of prophecy and had prophecies that went out before he was born. He lived out prophecies accordingly.
Jacob wasn’t an exception as well as John the Baptist. From the birth of John, everything he did was in accordance with the prophecies that went on before his birth.

When we make choices out of our physical sight instead of our faith in God and in His revealed mind to/for us, for the benefit of our flock instead of family, for the benefit of our pride, instead of integrity, for the benefit of our flesh instead of our soul, we inadvertently bear the consequences of our choices, which usually turns out to be bitter experiences.