Telescope of Faith: The Results are Coming (1)

Have you been asking yourself: “where are the results of all my efforts over the years? Where are the answers to my prayers?" You might have been doing the best you can to change your fortune and instead of making headway, the situation seems to get from bad to worse.

The enemies of progress might be showing you some signs that they have blocked all the ways of coming out of your predicament. And seeing these signs, you get wearied by the day and find it difficult to cope with life.

If you have been doing the best you can and nothing seems to work, then this article is specially for you. Please read on.

You Don’t Have to See the Results Before You Believe

If you have been asking yourself over the years: “where are the results of all my efforts? Where are the answers to my prayers?” Then, I have the right answer for you: you don’t have to see the results before you believe. You don’t have to see the answers to your prayers before you believe God has answered you.

The Book of Success, the Bible says: “For we walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). When you are walking by faith, you will not be worrying about seeing the results. The results and answers to your prayers already exist in the spiritual, but you cannot see them physically. And the fact that you cannot see them with your physical eyes doesn’t mean they are not in existence.

There is a saying among the Yoruba people of Nigeria that: “Aima asiko lon daa mu eda,” which means that it is lack of man’s knowledge of what the future holds that is responsible for man’s worries and frustration.

This is where faith comes in. if we want to be victorious in life, we must use the telescope of faith to assure ourselves constantly that the answers are coming. Faith is one kingdom principle we must practice in order to succeed in everything we desire to achieve.

And if you are walking by faith, you don’t have to be bothered by the fact that you cannot see the results with your physical eyes. THE FUNDAMENTAL LESSON WE MUST GRASP, IF WE MUST SUCCESSFULLY WALK BY FAITH IS THAT IN THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT, WHAT MATTERS IS YOUR BELIEF AND HOW LONG YOU ARE WILLING TO WAIT FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE RESULTS AND ANSWERS.

The Master Jesus said: “Therefore, I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). When you carefully examine this statement of Jesus, you would realize that believing comes before results.

In the realm of faith, seeing is not believing. If you are walking by faith, you have to keep believing before you start seeing the results. If you are bothered about the results, it is an indication that you either have no faith or your faith is diminishing.

Whenever you start getting worried about the results of your effort, know for sure that the devil is trying to deprive you of your blessing by making you impatient. Impatience is one of the destiny destroyers in the history of mankind.

Anytime people’s destinies change from positive to negative or are not fulfilled, it could be that people have grown tired of waiting for God and have call it quit. In our human wisdom, we think that our own time is more preferable to God’s. For this reason, we become restless and impatient when it appears God seems not to take into consideration our own time.

IF YOU WANT GOD’S BEST FOR YOUR LIFE, YOU MUST LEARN TO ACCEPT HIS WILL FOR YOUR LIFE. ACCEPTING GOD’S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE MEANS WAITING PATIENTLY FOR GOD TO BRING THE POSITIVE RESULTS TO PASS.

Waiting patiently for God’s best plan for you doesn’t mean you should stop making efforts and fold your arms. It just means that you don’t allow anything, situation or person to discourage you from trusting in God’s love and power to bring His plan for you to fulfillment.

Yours is to keep trusting God while you keep making all the efforts. Never fold your arms under the guise that you are waiting for God’s best time and plan. If you are waiting for God, you would be up and doing. You would be taking some steps, no matter how little, to move forward.

And if you find yourself in a position where you cannot make any effort at all, you can at least sit down to think, plan and stategise. And these are the starting point to great accomplishments. If you can sit down to think, plan and strategise, you are actually doing something spectacular to move you forward. This is important because you will never be taken unaware when God’s time for you unfolds.

See the Results in the Spiritual

Everything you desire to achieve already exists in the spiritual. This is why you must always reach out to your telescope of faith and use it to focus on those answers and results that exist in the spiritual. If you keep focusing on the results that exist in the spiritual and not in the physical, sooner than later, you will start seeing the manifestation of the results in the physical.

I see faith as the telescope that you can use to see your accomplishments, successes, and breakthroughs in a far distance. Your expectations may still be a bit far, but as long as you can see them with the telescope of faith, you will soon see these expectations in reality. You have to see it in the spiritual before you can see it in the physical.

The problem with us is that we want to see it in the physical before we believe God has done it for us. You have to consider it done, even though there is nothing to show that it has been done.

You have to believe that your victory is already accomplished even though the battle still rages on. You have to believe that your prosperity is certain even though there are signs of poverty all around you.  You have to keep believing and confessing that by the stripes of Jesus you are healed even though there are signs that the sickness is still in your body.

It is your ability to keep holding unto your faith that will bring into manifestation God’s glorious plan for your life.

Let Your Faith Prevail

If you are going to be victorious in life, your faith must prevail over adversities and negative things that are happening around you and in your life. It is easy to get discouraged in life. As a result of negative things you hear and see, it is easy to become despondent. It is easy to quit when things are not going well the way you expect.

But if you get discouraged and quit, you become a victim instead of a victor. For you to be victorious, therefore, you have to remain firm in your faith, believing that come what may, you will prevail in the end.

When your friends and foes are getting impatient with you or you are getting impatient with yourself about your results that are yet to come into manifestation, then, you need to remind yourself that worrying and fretting do not bring into reality the results you are yearning for.

You should keep reminding yourself that FAITH IS WHAT WILL BRING YOUR RESULTS INTO REALITY. FAITH IS WHAT WILL EARN YOU THE VICTORY. FAITH IS WHAT WILL TRANSFORM YOU FROM A PAUPER TO A PROSPEROUS PERSON. FAITH IS WHAT WILL TERMINATE SICKNESS FROM YOUR LIFE AND GRANT YOU PERMANENT HEALING.

To enjoy breakthroughs in your life, you must learn to hold tenaciously to your faith. Don’t get easily discouraged if the results are not forthcoming. Don’t quit because you cannot see the physical manifestation of your results.

UNTIL YOU START SEEING THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIN OF YOUR EXPECTATIONS, YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE UP. UNTIL YOU SEE YOUR PRAYERS BEING ANSWERED, NEVER QUIT.

THE FAITH THAT BRINGS THE DESIRED RESULTS IS THE FAITH THAT REMAINS UNSHAKEN.  “Where are the results?” Someone may ask. The true answer is: the results are coming! It is certain! No Jupiter can withhold your results! It is just a matter of time.  If you can remain firm in your faith and keep believing God to bring your results into manifestation, God will, at the right time, intervene and grant you your heart’s desires.

If you are getting too agitated about your results that are not forthcoming it is an indication that your faith is waning instead of increasing. It is worth reiterating that your victory is rooted in your ability to hold unto the belief that your victory is sure!

Your faith must not falter. If it appears the results are not forthcoming, that should not make you quit. Instead of quitting, you should pray more, believe more and put in more efforts toward achieving your heart’s desires.

Dear reader, it is not that the results will not come. Your results are coming. But the question is: will you quit before they get to you? Or will you stand strong and embrace them by holding unto your faith?

Until I come your way soon, go and build the faith that brings your results into manifestation! Go and live victoriously!

PS: Please watch out for part 2 of this article which shall be coming your way soon. Don’t miss it!