SOMEBODY DONE LIED TO YOU!

I was contemplating on some things as it relates to my life and sometimes how we don’t realize that the things that happen in our lives are really for our benefit.  It is to our benefit and not detriment that God would allow us to go “through” some of things that we have faced to teach us, grow us, and empower us to be the vessel he desires us to be.  Lemons can never be lemonade unless you put pressure on them, squeeze them out of their natural state, and get what is on the inside of them to come out.  They will always be just a lemon until what’s on the inside is released to the outside.

So let’s think about that analogy for a minute.  I often talk about things being a process in life and it’s because our trials do come truly to make us strong and so that the tarnish can be removed from off of us to expose the incredible gold behind it.  We struggle against simple name calling, people leaving our lives, and things not working out as we had hoped them to.  Inevitably, things are working out, but not necessarily like we want them, but as God sees fit for who he called us to be before foundation of the world.

So, the lemons that we are can become the lemonade that will quench the thirst of many as opposed to simply being a supply for ourselves only.  Let me tell you something about lemons….one is never enough to make a batch to supply the many.  God will continue to put pressure on us to produce and expand. He will enlarge our territory so that we are able to carry the weight of glory it takes to go through every situation and pour out to others.  So, God takes that one lemon and multiples giving us exactly what we need to make things manifest that he has set before us. 

Somebody done lied to you and told you that God did not have his hand on your life and the reason why everything keeps falling apart is because you are out of his will.  But the Lord told me to tell you today, that it’s by his divine design that things fell apart.  It’s by his order that everything looks upside down. It is his handiwork that your life seems a mess.  It’s like you feel like you’ve fallen and can’t get up. If he had allowed some of the things to happen the way we wanted them to happen, then we would not have completed the process of development.  We would be dwarfed.  Our growth would have been stunted and we would never reach our full potential in him. But he had to allow a train to come through your life. He had to allow you to lose your job.  He had to allow your husband to cheat and walk out. He had to allow the sickness to come on you.  But there is one thing about a process, there is a time to be in, go through it, and a time to wash it out.  When your hair is fully straight, it's time to wash it out!

There is something different about green lemons.  They don’t taste like yellow lemons.  Green lemons they don’t produce the same taste and flavor as one that’s fully ripe and yellow.  Now, I'm not talking about limes, but under-developed lemons.  If God had allowed some of us to step out before time daughters, you would not be ready walk into your destiny and sustain the integrity that is needed to stay in position.

Though it would appear that you believed your heart was ready and your spirit was ready to move forward, the process was not over until the Lord had made a complete work in you! Do you hear what I’m saying to you this morning? Don’t fight the process. Don’t allow the enemy to lie to you and tell you it’s too late or it will never happen.  Everything in your life is by his design and order.  The struggle is over in this next season.  Look unto God, who is the author and finisher of our faith, he is able to deliver what he promised and able to keep you from falling even when the ground is shifting under your feet. Wait upon the Lord and I promise you, he will deliver!