God is not SLOW!!!

Have you ever felt like you were waiting for God to do something that was taking an enormously long time? I have had that experience. I have sometimes confused an incidence of God operating on my behalf according to His divine providence and sovereignty with Him being slow. I have come to understand that God visits, touches, communicates, controls, and intervenes, coming before and between me and my needs. His continuous plan demonstrated by his intervention, predestination, predetermination, and the direction of His Will in my life is a clear indication of His Divine Providence. As clear as it has appeared to me when God has intervened, there are still times when a perceived discrepancy in our circumstances and the provision of God will arise which is really Satan's attempt to snatch God's Glory or distract us from God's intentions. These counterfeit principles creep in many ways and often looking amazingly similar to the principles of God.

In 2 Peter 3:8 we find these words, In 2 Peter 3:8 we find these words, "But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9 The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent." God’s plan and timing are divine. God is SOVEREIGN, not SLOW. Peter pointed this out well. What is often regarded as a long time to us is like a just day to God.

Many of you have heard me speak or read my writings before. I will often make reference to the fact that time is really relevant to us because we have birth dates and death dates. We merely exist. God, on the other hand, always was and ever will be. He is not bound by earthly time. The phrase in Peter's writing, “as some people think” (3:9) is intended as a slur against the opponents who say that delay functions as a prime argument against providential judgment. However, if we understand it correctly, the fact that God does not bring complete judgment upon us for all that we have done is actually evidence of God’s DIVINE providence. God’s so-called slowness is actually providing time to repent based on His benevolent character. He is patient, not slow. He is kind, not slack. We are the ones who have it twisted and mixed up. God's patience is clearly seen in God’s covenant with Noah. Humans would continue to be as sinful as ever in Genesis 8:21, but God bound himself by withholding his full judgment so that he could extend His grace.

In our plight of living in this earth realm experiencing influences that are counter the Knowledge of God, also referred to as Kingdom Intelligence, we frequently come into contact with Counterfeit Providences that if we are not careful will infiltrate and influence us to use them.

• FATE - Also called Kismet, Karma, or Chance rules the lives of many. Countless numbers of people have believed themselves to be trapped by a sometimes fickle and always foreboding fate. “As fate would have it,” they say.
• LUCK - Also called Kismet, Karma, or Chance rules the lives of many. Countless numbers of people have believed themselves to be trapped by a sometimes fickle and always foreboding fate. “As fate would have it,” they say.
• SERENDIPITY - This is the term used for seemingly coincidental, unintentional discoveries of good things along the way in life. It fails to acknowledge God’s part in the discovery and sometimes sidesteps gratitude for God's orchestration of the gift.
• HISTORY - There is a current trend towards encouraging people to think that their future is dictated or even set up by their past. This way of thinking has been a new day model of the concept of the Marxist propagandists that championed their cause by saying, “History is on our side.” They were appealing to a supposed inevitability of future events. “History” in such a statement appears to have taken on a divine dimension.
• PROGRESS - The development of science and technology, education and social evolution, and territorial conquests have made some people believe in progress as something more than what is seen. Until the two world wars, there was the illusion of a relentless momentum pushing upward and onward forever. It is often seen as the SNOWBALL EFFECT. Keep in mind that snowballs will roll, picking up momentum and even collecting more snow continuing on their journey of rolling downhill until they run into something large enough to stop them and turn them into nothing more than a lump of snow.
• NATURE - Many men have attributed to nature the gifts of providence rather than attributing the creation of nature to God who is Divinely provident.

As you continue having a residence here in the earth realm, you may find other ideologies that present themselves as providential that will turn out to also be counterfeit providences thus competing with the fact that God is Provident. They cannot all be true. Nor can they satisfy the true Kingdom Citizen. Only the Knowledge of God will support the TRUE DIVINE PROVIDENCE and God Order.

Providence is simply God’s provision for the needs of His people. The word “providence” means literally “to see before,” and therefore by implication to do something about what is seen. For the unbeliever, a human analysis of many situations would lead them to conclude that through an ordinary process things just come together the way they do and coincidentally stuff just happens to arrive at the right time or NOT. But to we who believe, the more we experience God, the more we will see things from God's perspective and the REVELATION of God's Providence will unfold before us. We will begin to notice how seemingly ordinary events are connected to specific incidents and with CLARITY we will experience God's Providence but with full knowledge of the fact that it is God who is making it all come to pass. It will be clear to us that God, by whatever process, positions us and as I stated before: visits, touches, communicates, controls, and intervenes, coming before and between us and our needs

“Provision” and “providence” are coordinately related to their verbal root, “provide,” and are essentially and etymologically the same. We who know God know Him to be JEHOVAH JIREH which means literally, The Lord Who Sees, or The Lord Who Will See To It. Theologically, the words provide and providence are distinguished in that providence has come to mean God’s foresight of our need.

One of my favorite scriptures is also one that is frequently quoted as encouragement in the providential care of God. In this scripture Paul wrties to the Philippians declaring his complete confidence in the God's Providence. “This same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). God is our source and the source of our supply. It is His nature to foresee and source our need, and to provide. Pay attention to Paul's words. He makes reference to what has been called: The TREASURY OF PROVIDENCE - "his riches in glory". Note that his Treasury is infinite. How's that for security?

When we truly see God as our father who purposefully creates and arranges conditions through His acts of Providential care, we will exercise our own confidence in his well thought out and divine plans for us.