GOD CAN DO THINGS FAST!

We all have things we believe God for; dreams to come to pass or challenges to turn around. We are doing our best and trying to do the right thing but it seems as though our effort is yielding little or no results. One thing is sure, we have a God who can do things fast irrespective of the situation. The scripture says “Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.” Jeremiah 1:12

God has these moments of favour when He does things fast: a sudden turnaround, a speedy recovery, a quick work. You didn’t do anything spectacular… You were just going along, being faithful, when God stepped in and pressed fast forward. He accelerated what you were believing for. Suddenly, you meet the right person and suddenly the challenges get resolved!

You thought it would take years to pay your debt off but with one contract or one phone call, it happened in a fraction of the time. Or it looked like a long road to recovery in your health or a long road to overcome that stubborn challenge but suddenly things changed in your favour. You defied the odds… That wasn’t luck; that was the God who moves fast, speeding up what should have taken years to happen.

See, the same God that can resolve things little by little can also accelerate things in a way you can’t explain. It doesn’t make sense, but suddenly He moves you ahead. All the circumstances may say it’s going to take a long time to get out of those legal challenges, but what you can’t see is that God has already lined up these moments where He will do a quick work and turn things around for your good! 

When you are in a waiting season and don’t see anything improving, it’s easy to get discouraged and feel like God has forgotten about you. You must stay in faith; your time is coming. God sees you doing the right thing when it’s hard. He sees you being your best even though you have been overlooked. He hears you thanking Him even though you feel stuck. You are showing God that you trust Him. 

We all go through these waiting seasons, but here is the good news: those seasons are not permanent. There is a harvest season coming, a time when God will make things happen fast, a sudden shift you couldn’t make happen. It’s the hand of God speeding things up, moving you into your purpose.

The right attitude is: God, I’m going to trust you in the waiting seasons when you are resolving my case little by little. But, Lord, I believe you have these acceleration moments, times when you will do a quick work, a sudden breakthrough that brings or accelerates me into my destiny. 

Yes, God has some of these acceleration moments for you. Don’t believe those lies that you are stuck. You are not! It’s not going to take you a whole lifetime to get out of debt, get well, or meet the right person! No! God is going to do things fast that you wouldn’t be able to explain. 

This is what happened with Elijah. The Israelites sinned against God and started worshipping other gods. For three and a half years there was no rain. With no sign of things changing, Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 1 Kings 18:41  He heard something in his spirit that contradicted what he saw with his eyes. All the circumstances said there is no rain; you are in a drought; everything is dead. 

However, faith is believing what God is telling you even when it contradicts what you are seeing. God will speak things to your heart without physical evidence. All the circumstances say you are not going to get well but inside, you hear, I am restoring health to you. Your business may be slow; you don’t see how you can get ahead, but the voice within says “You will lend and not borrow.” 

It looks like your child is never going to get back to good behaviour or live for God, but that still small voice says, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Now the key is: don’t let what you see talk you out of what you have heard. You have to believe what God promised you and not what the circumstances are telling you.

Elijah went on top of Mount Carmel and began to pray for something that he couldn’t see. He asked his servant to go to the other side of the mountain and see if any cloud of rain had started. He came back, saying, “No, Elijah, there is not a cloud of rain in the sky; it’s clear.” He went out and came back with the same negative report six times… (1 Kings 18:43-44)

On the seventh time, he said, ‘This time, Elijah, I saw a little cloud in the sky, just about the size of a man’s hand.” That was all Elijah needed: a little sign, a little breakthrough. He told King Ahab, “You had better get in your chariot and get down this mountain as fast as you can; there is about to be an abundance of rain.”

The message translation of 1 Kings 18: 45 says “Things happened fast.” The sky grew black with clouds, and there was a mighty rainstorm. It wasn’t like these clouds rolled in over a few days, where the weather got a little overcast and more cloudy over time this was a big storm. No, things happened fast. These clouds didn’t drift in; they formed overhead. One moment it was sunny, bright, and blue, and the next moment rain was abundant.

WALK BY FAITH!

You have to walk by faith and not by what you see. Let what you heard in your spirit overrule what you see with your eyes. Just because there are no clouds in the sky doesn’t mean God is not working. Just because someone you look up to came in, your friend or an expert, who said it’s not going to happen and made you give up! 

You were told that you will never get well, never meet the right person, that’s what they see, but what they can’t see is what God is about to do. What God has coming is not going to be natural; it’s not going to make sense. It’s not something you can put on paper, calculate, or plan. God is supernatural. He can bring rain without clouds, healing without medicine, and abundance without training.

This is what Joseph did. He was betrayed by his brothers and sold into slavery, even though he had done nothing wrong. He found himself in a foreign land and held against his will, falsely accused, and put in prison. It was one challenging experience after another. He was in a drought, a long waiting season.

He could have been bitter, but he just kept trusting God, believing that He was still in control. One night, the Pharaoh, the leader of the nation, had a dream that he didn’t understand. They said, There is a prisoner named Joseph who can interpret dreams.

The scripture says that Joseph was brought quickly to the palace. One moment he is in prison on another ordinary day, going about his business; in the next moment, he is standing before Pharaoh. He interpreted the dream, and Pharaoh was so impressed, he made Joseph the prime minister, second in command only to him. (Genesis 41:14)

If you had told Joseph, while sitting in prison a day before that the next day he would be the prime minister, that not only would he be out of this prison dressed but in a royal robe and he would have the Pharaoh’s ring representing the authority to do whatever he pleased, Joseph would have probably said, You have lost your mind; that’s not possible. But God can make things happen fast.

Joseph didn’t have to go through a trial and be vindicated by a jury. He didn’t have to run for office or have people elect him. God knows how to accelerate your dreams and speed things up. What should have taken years, He can do in a fraction of the time.

You don’t know what God is about to do for you. Like Joseph, you have been faithful; you kept a good attitude in the waiting seasons when God was helping you little by little. When you didn’t see much progress, you didn’t complain. You didn’t give up on your dream; you passed the test.

It wasn’t your skill, your intellect, or your hard work; it was the goodness of God. Like Isaiah said, taking you from one to a thousand, the smallest to a mighty nation. How is this going to happen? God said, When it’s your time, I’m going to do it quickly from a drought to a downpour when there aren’t going to be any clouds! (Isaiah 60:22)

Don’t worry if you don’t see any sign; just keep believing what you heard in your spirit: freedom, abundance, your children serving God. I decree and declare that it’s going to happen fast! God is about to surprise you with sudden breakthroughs, speedy recovery, and acceleration that catapults you into your divine destiny, in Jesus’ name.

“The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”