GOD IS NEVER LATE

By Noel Omukubi

Believe even after you have fasted, prayed and waited for long and do not give up. Hold onto the hope that God will come through for you. Remember, though it tarries, it will surely come to pass. God is never late, he is always on time, if only that you would believe in him and wait upon him. In your place of waiting, do not despair, hold onto your faith, believe his word for you. The bible says that his promises are yes and amen.

2 Corinthians 1:20 says that surely he is a God who answers prayers. He is not deaf; he hears your cry and sees your tears. He is preparing your testimony and surely you will rejoice when you see what God will do. He will put a new song on your lips, a song of praise in your heart. He will pick you from the miry clay and set you up on the rock to stand. He will surely turn your life around.

You have endured the shame, the pain, the tears, the torture, the lack, the barrenness and the wilderness. The bible says that God will give you a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. He says you will be called an oak of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

Look at how beautiful this is, the testimony that God is putting on your lips. The turnaround of your life that God will display to the whole world; even for your enemies to see. Remember what he says in Psalms 23:5 that he will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies. Surely God is not a man that he should lie nor the son of Man that he needs to repent. Has he said and will he not do it?

Numbers 23:19 (KJV) says:

 God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Isaiah 45:19(NIV) says:   I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Isaiah 55:11(NKJV) says, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

The scripture goes further to say in verse 12-13, ‘‘for you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.  Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

You will laugh again

God has already declared this in his word; that you will rejoice, you will know peace, you will laugh again. Surely you will live again in abundance, amidst plenty, you will rise again, there will be celebration in your house. God has promised you this. Hold onto his promise and he will surely deliver you the same way he delivered the children of Israel after 400 years in bondage in Egypt.

You may say that the situation is so big, so deep, so troubling and there is no way out. You are wondering, ‘how will it be?’ remember nothing is impossible with God, he knows the end from the beginning.  Nothing is too big for him. He parted the red sea to create a road for the children of Israel to cross through. He stopped the river Jordan from flowing so that Joshua and the children of Israel could cross; what is so difficult for him? The bible says in Matthew 19:26 that with God all things are possible. He is the creator of the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them. What can he not do? Our God is a great God. He is a God of second chances, he will create anew that which is destroyed. He will lift you up beyond your expectations. He glorifies himself in such situations, to him be glory and honour.