IF GOD IS SO GOOD, WHY HAS HE NOT GIVEN ME WHAT I HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR?
AS IN, WHAT’S THE DEAL YO😯😭?
Can’t God see my pain? I’ve cried and cried! I’ve prayed! I’ve fasted! I observed lent. I’ve given offerings and tithes at church. I even ‘serve’ in church even though my day job is so demanding! I do my best to do my best as a person. I’ve even cleaned up my life and I’m not out in these streets doing ‘bad’ things. I’m straight up following Jesus. Yet, day in day out, month in, month out, year in year out, I have the same cry on my heart, begging God to fix ‘this one thing’ and He has not answered me😭!
I’m about ready to quit! Because there is no way that God can really be ‘good’ if He can ‘open eye’ and see me in so much pain, and still do nothing about it (side eye emoji)
IS THIS YOU? In my going-on 37 years, in between the usual ups and downs of life, I have had two heart-tearing, life-shaping seasons in which I cried out to God in desperation, using every gimmick I had heard of, to get God to end that painful circumstance and deliver me😑 . Each of these seasons lasted years. They even overlapped, even though they were completely unrelated.
In those seasons, God taught me some things about Himself, prayer, waiting on God to change a circumstance… I’d like to share these with you in this week’s #coachtoyinsboomtips ❤ because I know that MANY OF YOU are in tears reading this, wondering, WHEN WILL MY SITUATION CHANGE😭?
So please come back to this same time slot on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday ❤…
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Are you currently in an intense period of waiting for God to bring a breakthrough in your life? Do you need my help to learn how to ‘wait well’? DM me or email thenarrowgateway@gmail.com and we can discuss ways in which I can help you😉.
#coachtoyinsboomtip2 (P.S. to understand today’s#boomtip, please first read Monday’s tip, same time slot.)
HE ISSSS A GOOD GOOD GOD 🙏❤. Before we even go on, let me entrench this in your heart friend; it is when I ‘reached the end of myself’ and understood this, that things began to turn around for me: GOD ISSSS A GOOD GOD 💥.
If you see any situation in your life, family, community, organisation, nation, world, that is corrupt, broken, breaking humanity, understand that THIS IS NOT GOD’S M.O! John 10:10 says that the thief (the devil) came to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus came that we may have life, and have that life abundantly! God gets no pleasure from your pain and suffering. Where you see death, decay, destruction and loss, it is NOT GOD’S DOING.
PHEW 😓! It took me years of fighting with God to realise that God is good; years of crying and even going as far as to say to God, “Yes, You may be a ‘good Guy’ to others, but clearly You have decided to show me Your bad side😑.
“So if God is good and the devil is the cause of bad things in my life, why doesn’t God just zap the devil and yank him out of the picture, so that all the bad things he has been doing can get yanked out of my life as well?” – you may be asking😑😏.
Well, that question has some very clear, crisp and backable answers and I’ll do another#boomtipseries on this. But for now, please come back to the same time slot on Friday and Sunday, as I share 2 things that began to happen in my life AFTER I finally realised that despite the fact that God had not yet given me what I had been praying for (or so I thought) HE IS GOOD❤.
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Are you currently in an intense period of waiting for God to bring a breakthrough in your life? Do you need my help to learn how to ‘wait well’? DM me or email thenarrowgateway@gmail.com and we can discuss ways in which I can help you😉.
#coachtoyinsboomtip3 (P.S. to understand today’s #boomtip, please first read Monday&Wednesday’s tips, same time slot)
THE ‘THING’ YOU THINK YOU NEED IS HARDLY EVER ‘THE THING’ GOD THINKS YOU NEED💥😑Yeah … I know. Hard to swallow! But it is (100 emoji)% truth and you can only realise and embrace this when you realise and embrace that GOD IS GOOD (go back to Wednesday’s #boomtip to read about this).
I’m not saying that God will never give you what you think you need. I’m saying that God’s ways are HIGHER than yours, and though He knows what you think you need, He will always prioritise giving you what He KNOWS IS GOOD FOR YOU. Why? Because He is a Good God and no matter what messed up situation you are facing and praying about, He is the only one who can WORK IT OUT SO IT DOES NOT DESTROY YOU, BUT IT RATHER INCREASES AND ESTABLISHES YOU💥!!
I shared on Monday that I’ve had 2 seasons in my life where I was praying to God for a change in a painful circumstance, but nothing was moving. When one of those seasons ended, I never did get what I had been praying for. YET, God brought so much healing and restoration to the messed up situation, so much so that what I had been praying for paled in comparison to what God actually landed on my lap😮❤. I still marvel when I think about that episode… GOD IS GOOD! If He has not yet given you what you are praying for, it’s likely because what you think you need is way beneath what God thinks you need.
Please come back to the same time slot on Sunday – I want to share what you can do to fully understand what God thinks you really need, so that instead of getting super frustrated in your prayers, you can align with what is REALLY going on behind the scenes❤.
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Are you currently in an intense period of waiting for God to bring a breakthrough in your life? Do you need my help to learn how to ‘wait well’? DM me or email thenarrowgateway@gmail.com and we can discuss ways in which I can help you😉.
#coachtoyinsboomtip4 (P.S. to understand today’s#boomtip, please first read Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s tips, same time slot)
GET IN STEP🚶♀️ In this week’s #boomtips, I’ve shared that 1) God is good, 2) What you think you need is hardly ever what God thinks you need first💥.
So what does this all mean for you? It means it’s time you discover and align yourself to what God is doing behind the scenes in your life. If you don’t, you will continue to bang your head on the wall, shouting frustrated prayers to God and angry with Him because it looks like He isn’t answering you😑.
I’ve shared often with you guys that my husband and I struggled to have kids when we were ready to start. During that season of my life, I spent the first few years begging God to make me fall pregnant. NOTHING. Shock, disappointment, anger, bitterness, acidity are some of the emotions that flooded my life. I was angry with God for allowing me to go through this kind of pain and still not responding to my prayers😓😭.
I am ever grateful because God did not get side-tracked by my reaction. In fact, it turns out that my reaction was simply evidence of the very thing that He wanted to work on😯! You see, I was praying to break past the season of infertility and have a baby, whereas God was working to GROW ME THE HECK UP so that I would be better prepared for the work that God has for me to do in my life💥😯. I could say much more about this but that’s for another set of #boomtips😉.
Friend, get in step. Align with what God is doing in your life. There is no situation in your life that is too difficult for God. He doesn’t only KNOW the solution to your problem, HE HAS THE SOLUTION IN HIS HAND. If He is not handing it over to you on a silver platter just yet, it is because He is trying to get you to discover and get in step with HIS OWN AGENDA for your life. When you do this, you will get exceedingly, abundantly, far above ‘the thing’ that you thought was ‘the thing’ you should be praying for💥
Are you currently in an intense period of waiting for God to bring a breakthrough in your life? DM me and we can discuss ways in which I can help you😉
As always, I end this by saying, I am Coach Toyin, fully convicted by my own words and very much still under construction in the hands of the Father.