My Picture Frame

What do I see?

This morning I was channel surfing and the first station I stopped on was broadcasting Olivet Baptist Church morning service.  Pastor Kevin Adams was talking about Dreams That Lead to Destiny.  In this message, he was talking about how we need to see our blessings in order to see what God has for us.  He said that when God shows you a dream, He takes a snapshot of what is going to be and what you are going to do and He puts it in his pocket, because He is the God that works from the end back to the beginning. He has already seen our destiny.  Our problem is we are trying to pull people in our photo that was never in the original shot. People don't understand us because we have already seen the preview of what is going to happen. God will show us mountain to mountain but he will not say anything about the valley in the middle.  He will not show us the troubles we are going to have to endure to get to the other mountain.  What I got from that sermon was that my life has a destiny and I have a dream but there are times when I have to face some obstacles in order to get to the other mountain.

After that program I turned and landed on Joel Osteen.  I enjoy watching him because he will tell these humorous anecdote at the beginning of every program.  Today he was talking about how do you see yourself.  He told someone to take an empty picture frame and look into it every day and picture their future.  He said if you start to picture yourself a certain way, you will start to move in the direction and do things to accomplish those goals.  If you only looking at what is happening to you now then your thinking will be stuck on the problem and you can never move past it.  I like his example about how the purchase of their current location seem to take a long time but he and his wife would go to the building pray and walk around it and believe they are destined to be in that building.  He said he envisioned the mayor giving them the key and the ceremony at the grand opening.  He did this for three years.

I was not going to go to church this morning but I needed to know if these two sermons was truly God trying to tell me something because I don't believe in coincidences.  There is a reason why I needed to confirm this, so I headed down 75 on my way to the Chauncey Goode Auditorium to listen to Pastor Ternae Jordan. His scripture was Ephesians 3:19-21.¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. ²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. A third opinion was delivered to me.  He said the same thing the other two sermons focused on.  I have to know God is able to do what He said He would do and if I don't look at what God has for me and just look at my present situation then I will not be able to get to where I am supposed to be.  

Right now, I am in a "valley" but I am looking at my picture frame and I am seeing the blessings that are meant for me.  I know God is able because He has delivered me from so much in the past.  When I was in school there was times I wanted to quit and just say forget it but my picture frame always had me standing with my Bachelors and now I have it.  My picture frame has another picture and I am going to keep looking at it until I get to where I am supposed to be. I know I will look back on this post and I will just smile because this is my testimony that God is still working miracles and I got a blessing with my name on it. I believe He will do it so I am going to praise Him now.