MANY TIMES, we start well with the desire to finish strong, but our situations say otherwise.

They say otherwise when our goals aren't met, and things do not go as planned.

THINGS did not go as planned when Paul’s handler did not listen to him. He set sail, and they ran into a dreadful storm, and all hope of being saved was lost.

However, after many days, God’s angel stood before Paul and told him not to worry that he would stand before Caesar. (Acts 27:1-20).

PAUL watched his alignment and realized that God’s promise would still endure.

When God said to Cain, “If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.” (Genesis 4:7)

God wanted him to watch his alignment—who he was becoming.

Watch your alignment—who you're becoming

Likewise, as this year comes to a close, God wants to keep you safe. He does not want you to go back to Egypt.

WHENEVER you allow your flesh to dominate your spirit, you go back there. (1 Peter 2:11)

Israel went there when they worshipped the gods of the Amorites, so God gave them into the hands of the Midianites who oppressed them.

And when the pain was unbearable, they cried out to God.

WHENEVER you seek God to save you, you align yourself with His Will and seek direction.

God’s angel appeared to Gideon while threshing wheat and said, “The Lord is with you, O brave man.”

“But if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” (Judges 6:11-23)

Gideon did not know that their wickedness had separated them from God, and their sins had hidden God’s face from them.

God wants you to believe in His Promise.

IT IS insufficient to believe God for the start of a matter and the in-between and not trust him to the end.

When Paul shared his testimony, he knew God’s word was sufficient.

Isaiah 55:11 says, God’s word, which goes out of His mouth, will not return to him void (useless, without result), without accomplishing what he desires and without succeeding in the matter for which he sent it.

God does not want you to be naive.

When Prophet Nathan told David what he had done, he saw himself in the story. (2 Samuel 12)

Likewise, God wants you to see yourself in the stories of the Bible. So, you do not have to have walked the path they walked or faced the situations they faced to know what to do.

God is not asking you to reinvent the wheel; he's asking you to study his word.

2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 say, “All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage];

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

CALEB knew God’s promises were true. So, when he spied the Promised Land, he returned with the conviction that God would do as promised.

And God said this of him, but My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it. (Numbers 14:20-24)

GOD wants to meet you where you are to take you to where you should be.

For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

All you have to do is confess your sins to God and invite Jesus into your heart to be your Lord and Saviour.

If you've done this, you can reach out to me. God bless you richly.