I am sorry if in this blog i am very rough or straightforward. But sometimes we can be ungrateful brats. We are so fixated on our minds and what we feel that a lot of times we miss what God is doing. I once received a prophetic word that said… “God said to stop letting the devil take away your smile, he is trying to do that to take your joy so you don’t see what God is doing and going to do”. Meaning i was allowing the enemy to blind me from seeing what God was already doing. When you allow the enemy to fill your mind with garbage you will miss what God is telling you and showing you. When you allow him to mess with your sight, you will no longer see and live the way God is clear to you in his word on how he wants you to live. God says we live by faith not by sight. So why do we tend to contradict his word a lot of times in our lives. I also believe that the devil lovesssss to bring distractions over our lives.. Its crazy because the devil uses the same techniques to catch us every time. But we forget this and still fall into his traps all over again. We become very impatient as well, we want everything when we want it. But life doesn’t work like that, God honestly doesn’t work like that. God in his word says in Philippians 4:6, ” Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God”. Now, i really want to dwell into this verse, because this verse has really impacted my life this year! In this verse God says, do not be anxious. Meaning do not get stressed, frustrated and worried. Next thing he says is but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Meaning he wants us to pray, beg and be thankful. God ministered to my heart even further on this verse. We want so many things in life but we aren’t grateful and thankful for what we already have. We have so much already and we don’t appreciate it. We want God to keep giving and giving when we aren’t even thankful about what he has already done. Sometimes we let our mind really take over us and that is so dangerous. You can’t let you mind have control, you have to submit unto the authority of God. I used to feel like God didn’t speak to me, that he favored his other children. But then God ministered to me in an instant and said, i do speak to you. You just don’t listen or see me, you are so fixated on how you think it should look like. You are also more focused on what i am doing with your neighbor rather than what i am doing with your life right now. Then i paused and God reminded me all the times even in the present moment that he spoke that to me, when he was speaking LOUD AND CLEAR. If we allow distractions to cloud our mind and sight, we will miss when God is speaking. We will miss what God is trying to show us. In this season i challenge you to be more thankful and acknowledge that the Father has always been at work in your life, even when you couldn’t see it. I also challenge you to know that God does hear you, but also be grateful for what he has already done as well.