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Expecting the Unexpected
A couple weeks ago I lived through one of the most horrific times of my life. My daughter had used drugs and taken it to a new level. Then came home to come down. Not being skilled in the drug life, I was in a helpless situation. The dramatic events escalated as the week progressed and it peaked at a point when I knew a break through, of a Godly-kind, was needed.
I cried out to the only one that could bring that break-through and within hours we faced a miracle head on. There was hope; God had opened a door. I rejoiced because once again God had made a way where there seems to be no way.
India was invited to stay at our pastor’s house that lived out of town. He and his wife offered to take her if she was willing and ready to make a change. She agreed and I accepted her willingness as a miracle. Words cannot express how I felt. My mothers heart was relieved that God had opened a door, and I drove her there the next day totally believing that when she came home she would be a different person.
As I drove home I sensed victory. The words to a song swelled up inside me and I sang with everything I had in me. “It’s a new beginning, it’s a new day, and fresh anointing is coming my way.” I sensed in my spirit that it truly was a new beginning. A miracle was transpiring and my addicted daughter was going to be delivered in a miraculous way.
As the week transpired I claimed God’s promises and expected the miracle. I reminded God that He is not man that He can lie. I felt victory. I proclaimed victory. My child was in a safe place and God was working.
Then six days later she called and said she was ready to come home.
My stomach churned. Instantly doubt and fear rose up within me. The first words out of my mouth were, ‘it hasn’t been long enough.’ No sooner than I muttered those words, did I feel a check in my spirit. In a blink of an eye I had limited God. In an instant I had put God in a box and said He had to work within a certain time frame.
I quickly asked God to forgive me for my doubt and committed my child back into His hands. I determined in my heart that He did have our best interest at Heart and He alone knew exactly where we were.
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She came home and my pastor left me with a few words of advice. It was quite profound, from one parent to the next, “don’t expect too much out of her.” He encouraged me to give her to God and leave her there and to put my expectation only in the Lord.
Psalms 62:5 my soul trusteth in you Oh Lord, my expectation is only in you.
I don’t know about you, but when a mother hears the words, ‘don’t expect too much from your daughter,’ it can be a bit daunting. After he left I began to search the scripture. I needed to see what the Word said. And just as my pastor had alluded too, when we put our trust or expectation in our kids, we will experience heartbreak and disillusionment. But, when we put all our expectations in GOD, the perspective suddenly changes.
The weekend transpired. It was very evident that she had not been delivered. The miracle I had believed was going to happen hadn’t taken place. My daughter, from all appearances was the same. We were back at square one. The New Beginning had just been a vacation.
Or had it?
There was something different and it wasn’t at all what I had expected.
The miracle had taken place within me. I had been praying for a miracle to happen within in my daughter (and I know God is working there as well) but God’s response to my prayer was to do a work within me.
I have been a typical mother. I had worked so hard to raise my daughter to make right choices and I had put so much expectation in her. I wanted better, I wanted so much more for her. I knew that she was capable of so much more. It was very simple; my expectations had been very high but focused in the wrong direction.
I had been carrying my daughter all along . . .
A week has passed and my daughter is still addicted. In fact things appear worse than they were before she left. I know that she is running hard from the Lord, but I know that when she was an infant I gave her to the Lord. Although I have picked her up through the years, I’ve realized in a very profound way that she must be left at the foot of the cross.
2 Timothy 1:12 (Amplified) and this is why I am suffering as I do. Still I am not ashamed, for I know (perceive, have knowledge of, and am acquainted with) Him Whom I have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on), and I am [positively] persuaded that He is able to guard and keep that which has been entrusted to me and which I have committed [to Him] until that day.
The miracle I had prayed for actually took place within me. My expectation is now fully upon the Lord. I now look at the situation with a peace that I didn’t have before. I trust in God and know that He has our best interest at heart.
So, just when you think things are going to turn out one way, you might be surprised at what God is really getting ready to do. When you put your expectation in the Lord, your perspective can’t help but change.
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