Open the Door Already!

Right now I am attending school online to obtain my Masters Degree in Christian Leadership. I am enjoying the classes, but I have been praying and believing God for the finances to pay for it all. I don’t want to drain my savings, and I would appreciate not adding on to my student loans.

This morning in my regular internet reading, I came across an opportunity to win a scholarship. All I have to do is upload a picture of myself and write a short essay. Easy as pie, right?

I sat and looked through some of the entries already posted and started downgrading myself right on the spot. I went from “Oh, this is an easy $20 grand to win!” to “Well, the runners up get $2,500…” There are some really beautiful women in the running.

I looked at the situation with my natural eyes and automatically told myself I couldn’t win. I almost talked myself out of even entering. Ain’t that something?

Yet, as I looked at the contest rules I remembered my prayers for funding. Who’s to say that God can’t move on my behalf even when it’s partly based on a beauty contest? I may not consider myself a model, but God did create me!

Often we pass up opportunities for God to bless us or our prayers to be answered simply because we don’t see how it could work. Some of us even sit down with, talk to, and get to know our answer, yet we still let it slip by out of our own disbelief that it’s for us!

God is holding the answer to many of our prayers and knocking on our doors... Let’s let Him in already!

There’s a reason why you got that bright idea. God allowed you to meet that particular person. It’s no coincidence you ran across that information. That dream keeps coming in the night on purpose.

God’s knocking. Open up the door, and position yourself for the blessing of answered prayer!

Now, I’m not saying that this contest is the answer to my prayers, but I’m certainly not going to let it pass by without putting my name in the running. That action of faith could be all God needs to bring about my answer.

Verse of the Day: Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)