Do what is right and leave the remaining to the creator of the universe

Do what will not affect you tomorrow

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Deuteronomy 28 says, “If you obey God’s word and follow His commands, then all these blessings will overtake you.” One translation of that word “overtake” is to catch by surprise. You may be in a situation that looks permanent. You’ve gone as far as you can in your career, your child will never get back on course, that trouble at work will always hinder you. What you can’t see is God has some surprises coming your way. Because you’re honoring Him, you’re keeping Him first place, He has blessings that are going to overtake you, favor that you can’t outrun, good breaks that you can’t get away from. It’s going to chase you down.

You can look back over your life and see times when God surprised you, opened doors, brought the right people, turned the trouble around. The Scripture says in Job, “God is famous for His great and unexpected acts. There is no end to His surprises.” Can I encourage you; your best surprises are still in front of you. God is going to do things that boggle your mind: explosive blessings, His goodness chasing you down, taking you where you never dreamed. Check out this new message from Joel! "Divine Surprises". https://bit.ly/3rn12Nj

The Scripture says, “Peter left everything and followed Jesus.” You don’t have to get cleaned up enough, behave good enough, get rid of all your weaknesses, then you can follow. No, come just as you are. God is standing before you with open arms, ready to receive you. You wouldn’t be hearing this if God wasn’t calling you. Don’t let the surprise go to waste. Start following Him. Like Peter, God will make more out of your life than you ever dreamed. Be inspired by this message from Joel, "Divine Surprises". Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3rn12Nj

God wants to use you in amazing ways, bring dreams to pass that leave you in awe, take you places that you never thought possible. How does this happen? Through great faith. It’s on the inside of you right now. Have you awakened it? Or are you just living with comfortable faith, average faith, lazy faith, not believing, not stretching, not dreaming? Get out of that box. Take the limits off of God. There should be something you’re believing for that causes God to marvel, something over your head, out of your range. That’s what gets God’s attention.

God doesn’t want you to live off of old victories. Yes, we can celebrate and be grateful for what He's done, but He has some new victories. He’s taking you from glory to glory. What’s in your future is going to supersede anything you’ve seen in the past. That’s why we can live with expectancy, excited when others are down, hopeful when others are discouraged, praising when others are complaining. We know His favor is for a lifetime; we haven’t seen our best days.