“God doesn’t tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.”
― Joyce Meyer

You know, sometimes God will give us what we want just to prove to us that we’re not ready to handle it yet.
You know, I wanted my ministry to grow for a long time while it was still little.
I mean, I was teaching 25 people in my living room every Tuesday evening.
I wasn’t getting paid for that.
I’d quit a full time job to go into ministry and I didn’t, you know, I had a dream and a vision, but that’s all I had.
Well, you know, it’s challenging to hold on to things like that when you don’t see anything in the natural.
But I kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing it and kept doing it and little by little things grew when it was time for me to leave that Bible study situation, I ended up going to work at a church and they asked me to lead a women’s meeting there and that became quite large.
Well, then God asked me to leave there and go north, south, east and west.
And so it comes in stages and degrees, but nobody is going to just have a dream from God about doing something with their life and the next morning fall out of bed and be doing it.
God shows us the end from the beginning sometimes and we don’t realize that we still have to go through the middle.
Think about that. There’s a beginning of everything and there’s an end But there’s a middle.
Let’s just say you need to lose 50 lbs. Well, it’s not really that hard to begin.
Anybody can go on a diet Sunday night after dinner.
But what happens when about Tuesday at noon comes and you’re extremely hungry?
Well, that’s when this discipline has to come in and you have to be willing to suffer some realizing that if you keep doing what’s right that you are gonna get a result little by little.
I know some people have physical things wrong with them.
They may have medical things that are going on that prevents them from being able to lose weight.
But I’m talking about just normal situations where people have not taken care of themselves.
You, you can apply the same thing financially.
How many people are head over heels in debt and they’re crying out to God for a financial miracle.
Well, ask God for a miracle and He may give you a job or ask him for a miracle and he may give you a second job for a period of time.
Ask God for a miracle and he may show you 10 things that you don’t need to spend money on anymore.
Any time we pray, God hears us and he answers our prayer, but he doesn’t always just do it in some miraculous way.
Many, many times. God will show us something that we need to do or stop doing if we want to have the result that we say that we want.