A Cake- Not A Cookie

I believe Satan's greatest accomplishment is to have God's people wake up one morning and say there is no God. I call it the greatest seduction because even Satan knows that God's presence cannot be denied. I asked myself how could someone deny who God is, and I was ready to put Peter on the cross alongside Jesus when I first read how he denied ever knowing who Jesus was.

The same finger I pointed at Peter, I had to turn toward myself. I take back the cross part because it means I would be strung up there too. Recently I had to go through my own situation, and when God did not show up immediately I asked Him, "God if you really are who You say You are why don't You do something?"

I don't care how holy you are, it isn't easy to whistle like a kettle when heat scorches your behind. It's hard to be still and wait, especially when nothing seems to be taking place. I mean if its going to rain I need to see some clouds or something.

One of the first things my Mom taught me to do in the kitchen was bake a cake from scratch. I couldn't understand how the cake batter would become the cake that I grew up enjoying. She stuck it in the oven, and I watched and watched, I tried to open the oven for a closer look and then Mom quickly stopped me explaining that to open the oven before time would cause the cake to sink. I heard TD Jakes say that Jesus speaks to the end of a thing and it took me a while to get it. A cake may not look like a cake going into the process but it is still a cake. If I make a cake it is not coming out of the oven as a cookie. 

David was a boy when anointed a king, but went straight back to the fields to tend his sheep after the auspicious occasion. Why didn't he leave those stinky sheep alone immediately after? It took years for David to sit on a throne. If I were David I would go network with other palace officers, and find someone else to watch sheep- read some books about being a king, brush up on my speech.... but it was not needed. God already made him king and all he had to do was be still and wait. If God said it, it was so. 

But what about the years that passed with Saul still being king, and the perils he went through when Saul threatened his life. It didn't matter because in the end he would still be King. God speaks to the end. He says I am healed so the end result will be my healing. It doesn't mean that I won't get sick, at the end of the journey I will be healed. Why worry about the process when God promises a great end result.The cake is in the oven, it takes time and some heat, but the end is a cake- not a cookie.

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