Many times God will allow a painful situation or a painful circumstance in our life to “swallow us up.” This season in our spiritual growth is a holding pattern. We can’t move to the left or the right. All we can do is sit, like Jonah sat in the belly of that great fish, so God can have our undivided attention and speak to us.

God put Jonah in a holding pattern because He needed to speak to his heart. Jonah was all alone. There were no friends to call, no colleagues to drop by, no books to read, no food to eat, no interference, and no interruptions. He had plenty of time to sit, think, meditate, and pray.

When we’re deep down in the midst of a difficult situation, God can talk to us. When He has our undivided attention, He can show us things about ourselves that we might not otherwise have seen.

A Few of God’s Holding Patterns:

1. When you are sick in your physical body and you have prayed but God has not healed you yet, you are in a holding pattern

2. When you are having problems with your children and you have put them on the altar, but God has not delivered them yet, you are in a holding pattern.

3. When you have been praying for the salvation of a loved one and they have not been saved yet, you are in a holding pattern.

4. When you are in a broken relationship and you have given it over to God, but it has not been restored yet, you are in a holding pattern.

5. When the doors slam shut before you can knock on them, you are in a holding pattern.

When we are deep in the belly of a difficult situation, there are no interruptions. God has our undivided attention. All we can do is sit, think, meditate, and pray. We cannot run from God because there are no Mountains that are high enough, valleys low enough, rooms that are dark enough, or places that are hidden enough from Him. We must remember to praise Him while we’re waiting and remember three things:

1. The pattern has a purpose.

2. The pattern has a plan.

3. The pattern has a process.

So stop struggling and start listening, praying and trusting. He’ll keep you right where you are until you can clearly hear Him say, “I love you.”

Prayer: Father, forgive my unbelief. I know You Love me and will turn anything around to benefit me. You have planned nothing for me but victories and I am ready to receive them regardless of how difficult the path. Amen.

The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.

Take a look at the 16 pics given above… Do they remind you of something that was so special?

Yes, no one can ever forget those good old days when we were having the best time of our lives – our childhood – and today we will miss those days saying ‘Gone are the days!!!’

In everyone’s life there are many important times. One of them is childhood.

Childhood is the greatest time in everyone’s life for many reasons. Initially, when you are a child, every dream seems realizable. Also, a child has got a huge imagination which permits him to imagine or invent a lot of enjoyable situations. For example, a child can imagine to be a biologist who’s studying the animals. Moreover, he can imagine to be a teacher.

Then, a child has got few responsibilities. His only duties are learning and having fun with his friends. However, children responsibilities increase step by step. For instance, if today a child is allowed to go to the store next his home’s door, the time after he will probably be allowed to go in a store placed in another street and so on. He’s to has to become responsible by himself.

Finally, learning is easier for a child. The children’s memory is by far better than the adults’ and they can learn a huge amount of information without difficulties. Also, they are very fast in learning foreign languages or other subjects at school, such as science or history. Moreover, they have a particular capacity in memorize dates an numbers.

Children’s imagination permit them to dream and enjoy themselves, second they have got a restricted amount of responsibilities, third when you’re a child learning is very easy.

Thus, childhood is the time when a person have to enjoy himself as much as possible and have “to taste” the huge amount of possibilities that it offers.

The best part is our innocence in those days. How free our mind was when we were so innocent! I know everyone love to be like that once more, but to be as innocent as it was then, is almost impossible for an adult now, particularly in this modern world.

But lets all at least try our best to be a ‘child at heart’ once more and achieve God’s Kingdom that Jesus promised to children.

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

- – And the best one is – -

The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.

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There comes a point in your life when you realize:

Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won’t anymore…
And who always will.

So, don’t worry about people from your past,
there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.