It was advertised that a well-known Christian speaker was doing a special series dedicated to helping bring single women closer to their husbands. A friend of mine called me frantic with excitement. “I believe this is the breakthrough I’ve been waiting on! This is my year!” she declared. She couldn’t stop talking about it. She began to recruit all her unmarried friends to join her in hopes they would all receive new and exciting revelation that would help them. If you’re loving the single life and perfectly content with being unmarried, the announcement of this series might not have appealed to you. But if you’ve been praying to cross the path of the one God will send, you recognize that knowledge from His Word will bridge the gap between you and what you desire most. God’s Word will always position us for greater blessings.
The fact of the matter is that we don’t know what we don’t know. We think we know enough, but our lives will teach us that’s not true. As single women that greatly desire to be married, we spend a good deal of time questioning why the wait continues to be extended. It’s the question that stumps many of us and has caused some to even abandon the faith.
Acts 17:24-25(NLT) tells us, “Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.” Acts 17:24-25 must be the foundation of our faith. Our God satisfies our needs. This must be the truth that drives our existences. You may think you are in dire need of a spouse this very moment, but you must yield to the reality that God knows exactly what your needs are. Jesus Christ teaches us in Matthew 6:8 that our Heavenly Father knows exactly what we need even before we ask.
Our responsibility to God is to yield to His knowledge about what we need and when we need it. God’s Word is true, and when it comes to our desires, our dependency must be upon His Word, not on what we think we’re missing. Your love for Jesus Christ is demonstrated by how much you hunger for God’s Word, because Jesus Christ is the living Word of God. So, wherever you are, whatever your station in life, right this very moment, if you are born again, you are complete in Christ. You must long and yearn to walk in your completeness and not think that you are incomplete because your husband has not yet arrived.
This is the truth. Your feelings and emotions may tell you otherwise, but you must not allow yourself to be led by your feelings and emotions. They often lead us astray. You must be led by God’s Spirit. God’s Word is true, and He says we are complete in Christ, and if there is any need that arises in our lives, He is the One to supply it according to His divine Will and Plan.
You mean more to God than you could ever know. Because of His great love for you, Heavenly Father will never step away from His allegiance to your spiritual growth in Christ. He will not sacrifice your destiny to satisfy your flesh. And He’s not going to overstep your free-will choice either. He knows that desiring Christ and embodying his example is the best any of us could ever hope to achieve. But if you are concentrating the brunt of your prayers, thoughts, and spiritual efforts on the husband, God will not force you to make a shift. He commands us in His Word to have the mind and heart of Christ, and the mind and heart of Christ is continually on pleasing the Father. Pleasing God should be the most important thing in our lives, but you are the only one that can decide for yourself that He is worthy of your whole heart and mind.
God delights in us, and His expectation is that we will spend our time concentrating on delighting in Him. This means that we are opening our hearts and minds to learn more about God through Christ. He gave the life of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from sin and death. Gratitude for this should swell our entire heart space, and only the Father knows if it indeed has. Because of what our Redeemer has accomplished, we will spend an eternity with God, and that is how long it will take to explore the depths of who God is. For an eternity, He will continue to show us new sides of His wondrous love and power, and we will never reach the end of Him.
Jesus Christ taught in Matthew 9:37(NLT), “The harvest is great, but the workers are few.” Heavenly Father will take care of our needs, whatever those needs may be. On this we must depend. He desires that we focus our faith on the harvest of souls that desperately need our prayers and spiritual intervention. Expanding His Kingdom should be heavy on our minds. If we’re constantly trying to satisfy our own agendas, and those agendas are not anchored in our assignment from God, the harvest we’re looking for will not yield what we expect.
He tells us in Galatians 6:7-9(NLT), “7 Don’t be misled, you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8; Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.”
Now is the time to line up our hearts and minds with God’s Word so that we are sold out in faith to Him. Heavenly Father is waiting on us to trust Him totally, to have faith in the power He’s given us and to walk fully in the authority of Christ. Capture God’s attention with your faith. Seek Him, and Him alone, and be relentless in your pursuit of God. Never give up, and don’t get tired of doing what is good. In due season, you’ll reap a harvest that pleases Heavenly Father and thrills your heart as well. ■
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright ©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
“A Harvest that Thrills Your Heart” written by Kim Times, edited by Fran Mack for Sundie Morning Sistas ©2022. All rights reserved. All done to the glory of God through Jesus Christ, our Lord!