WORD WEDNESDAY - YOU CAN. DON’T STOP. IT WILL

Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

Welcome to Word Wednesday with Manifestation of His Glory Network, Inc.

I am grateful that you have taken time to enter this online sanctuary today. Wherever you are reading from, I believe there is something in this Word that you need to carry with you through the remainder of this week.

Today, I don't have a long title.

I don't have something complicated.

The Lord gave me three short declarations:

YOU CAN.

DON’T STOP.

IT WILL.

And somebody may be reading this thinking, “Apostle, you don't understand. I'm tired.”

I may not know everything you have been carrying, but I do understand that sometimes the hardest part of an assignment isn't starting it.

It's continuing when what you are doing doesn't appear to be producing anything.

What do you do when it looks like nobody is paying attention?

What do you do when it seems like nobody cares?

What do you do when you've been faithful, consistent, prayerful, and obedient, but what you're looking at does not seem to reflect what God showed you?

What do you do when you've put your hands to something and you're wondering whether it's going anywhere?

You maneuver.

You maneuver through the disappointment.

You maneuver through the silence.

You maneuver through the lack of visible results.

You maneuver through the temptation to compare.

You maneuver through weariness.

You maneuver through the moments when you need to breathe.

Because maneuvering means I may have to adjust how I'm moving, but I have not abandoned where God told me to go.

There are times when what God placed in your hands needs fresh breath blown upon it.

There are times when the fire needs to be stirred again.

There are times when you have to stop trying to make something happen and allow the anointing of God to flow through what He gave you.

And there are times when you have to get yourself out of the way and let God move through you so you can maneuver through what is in front of you.

Before we go any further, let's pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, thank You for meeting us in this online sanctuary.

Thank You for every assignment, gift, idea, vision, ministry, family, business, opportunity, and responsibility You have entrusted to our hands.

For the person who is tired today, renew their strength.

For the person who is discouraged, breathe upon them again.

For the person wondering whether what they are doing matters, bring them back to the certainty of what You said.

Remove comparison. Silence anxiety. Restore confidence in You.

Teach us how to rest without quitting, adjust without abandoning, and maneuver without losing direction.

Let Your Word find us, strengthen us, and move us forward.

In Jesus' name, Amen!

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Now, let's get into the Word of God!

Galatians 6:9 KJV says:

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Notice something here.

The Scripture does not say you will never become weary.

It says do not allow weariness to determine whether you continue.

There is a due season.

There is a harvest.

But there is also a space between what you have been doing and what you will eventually see.

And sometimes that space is where your faith is tested.

So let's deal with the first thing God gave me.

YOU CAN.

Not because you always feel like you can.

Not because everything is easy.

Not because everybody believes in you.

Not because every door opened.

Not because everybody supported you.

You can because God has already supplied grace for what He assigned.

Second Corinthians 12:9 KJV says:

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Pay close attention.

God did not tell Paul, “You will never experience weakness.”

He told him that His grace was sufficient in it.

That changes something.

Because some of us have been measuring our ability to continue by how strong we feel today.

But your difficult day did not cancel your calling.

Your disappointment did not cancel your calling.

Your frustration did not cancel your calling.

Your need to regroup did not cancel your calling.

God knew there would be days when you felt strong and days when you didn't.

He knew there would be people who supported you and people who didn't understand you.

He knew there would be moments when you questioned whether anybody was paying attention.

And He still assigned it to you.

So when I tell you, YOU CAN, I am not telling you to manufacture strength you don't have.

I am telling you that God's grace is available for what God assigned.

You may have to learn.

You may have to adjust.

You may have to change your approach.

You may have to ask for help.

You may have to pray again.

You may have to admit that the way you've been doing something is no longer the way you need to do it.

That's maneuvering.

Adjustment is not always failure.

Sometimes adjustment is wisdom.

And don't determine whether what you're doing matters by how loudly people respond to it.

Everybody who receives from you will not announce that they received.

Everybody who reads will not comment.

Everybody who watches will not respond.

Everybody who is impacted will not tell you.

But your obedience was never supposed to depend upon applause.

Your first responsibility is unto God.

So straighten yourself up.

Take another breath.

And hear it again:

YOU CAN.

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Now, knowing you can does not mean you will never become tired.

And that brings me to the next thing God gave me.

DON’T STOP.

But listen to me closely.

“Don't stop” does not mean “don't rest.”

We need to get this right.

Sometimes we have treated perseverance as though running yourself into the ground proves how faithful you are.

No.

Mark 6:31 KJV says:

“Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while.”

Jesus recognized that those who had been pouring out needed rest.

And in 1 Kings 19, when Elijah became exhausted, he slept.

He ate.

He rested.

Then he continued.

Resting and quitting are not the same thing.

You can breathe and still be obedient.

You can regroup and still be committed.

You can have a difficult day and still be called.

You can be disappointed with somebody and still get up and do what God told you to do.

You can cry and still continue.

You can say, “I need a minute,” without saying, “I'm done.”

And sometimes you can intend to do something one day, life happens, you do it the next day, and the assignment is still fulfilled.

Don't let perfectionism make you think faithfulness only counts when everything happens according to your original schedule.

Come on!

Somebody needs to release themselves from that pressure.

You may need to rest.

Rest.

You may need to breathe.

Breathe.

You may need to reevaluate.

Reevaluate.

You may need to change the strategy.

Change it.

But if God has not told you to release the assignment, don't let weariness release you from it.

Hebrews 10:35–36 KJV says:

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”

There can be a space between obedience and manifestation.

Don't let that space talk you out of what God said.

DON’T STOP.

Resting is not stopping.

Recovering is not stopping.

Reevaluating is not stopping.

Adjusting is not stopping.

Sometimes those things are exactly what allow you to continue.

Last week we talked about breathing.

Well, maybe you needed that breath because this week requires a maneuver.

And now we arrive at the final thing God gave me.

IT WILL.

Habakkuk 2:3 KJV says:

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

There is one phrase I want you to see:

“An appointed time.”

Not your anxious time.

Not somebody else's time.

Not social media's time.

Not the timetable comparison created.

God's appointed time.

And if God appointed it, your anxiety is not required to make it happen.

Come on here!

Some of us are exhausting ourselves trying to perform God's part of the process.

You are trying to make people see it.

Make people support it.

Make people understand it.

Make the numbers move.

Make the door open.

Make somebody recognize you.

Make something happen.

But First Corinthians 3:6 KJV says:

“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

There it is.

Paul planted.

Apollos watered.

God gave the increase.

There is something you are responsible for, and there is something God is responsible for.

Plant.

Water.

Prepare.

Study.

Work.

Pray.

Show up.

Steward.

Obey.

But increase?

God.

Your anxiety cannot speed up an appointed time.

Your worry cannot manufacture increase.

Your frustration cannot produce God's promise.

And comparison cannot make God move faster.

So when I say IT WILL, I am not telling you that everything you personally want is guaranteed to happen exactly the way you imagined.

I am telling you that what God has actually appointed does not require you to become God in order to bring it to pass.

That is where you release it.

That is where you let go.

That is where you allow God to breathe upon what you have faithfully placed before Him.

Let Him put His fire on it.

Let His anointing flow through it.

Let Him send who needs to come.

Let Him open what needs to open.

Let Him develop what needs more time.

Let Him move what only He can move.

IT WILL.

Now look at the three declarations again.

YOU CAN.

That's grace for the assignment.

DON’T STOP.

That's stewardship through the process.

IT WILL.

That's trusting God with the outcome.

Grace.

Stewardship.

Trust.

That's how you maneuver.

And maybe somebody reading this has been trying to maneuver through life without Jesus Christ.

You've learned how to function.

You've learned how to survive.

You've learned how to keep moving.

But you're tired of carrying life in your own strength.

Jesus is calling you.

Romans 10:9 KJV says:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”

You don't have to fix everything before you come to Him.

You can surrender right now.

Father, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. I believe Jesus Christ died for my sins and that You raised Him from the dead. Forgive me. Cleanse me. Make me new. Jesus, I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Teach me Your Word, order my steps, and help me follow You from this day forward.

In Jesus' name, Amen!

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Now, before we leave this online sanctuary, let me pray for you.

Father, in the name of Jesus, strengthen every person who has been tempted to quit.

Breathe again upon what You placed in their hands.

Reignite what discouragement tried to extinguish.

Give them wisdom to maneuver without losing direction.

Give them grace to rest without surrendering.

Give them discernment to adjust without abandoning.

Give them faith to continue when they cannot yet see what their obedience is producing.

Remind them that You have not forgotten them.

You have not abandoned them.

You are still supplying.

You are still keeping.

You are still God over what they cannot see.

Teach us to plant faithfully, water faithfully, steward faithfully, and then trust You for the increase.

We release the outcome from our hands and put it back into Yours.

In Jesus' name, Amen!

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Don't leave this Word on this page.

Carry these three declarations through the remainder of your week.

When you feel inadequate:

YOU CAN.

Not because you possess unlimited strength, but because God's grace is sufficient for what He assigned.

When weariness tells you to walk away:

DON’T STOP.

Rest if you need to.

Breathe if you need to.

Regroup if you need to.

But don't confuse recovery with quitting.

And when anxiety starts asking when, how, where, and who:

IT WILL.

Do your part and trust God with His.

Put your hands back on the assignment.

Put your heart back in God's hands.

And put the outcome back where it belongs.

YOU CAN.

DON’T STOP.

IT WILL.

My prayer remains the same:

That you logged in one way and you are logging out another!

May the Lord strengthen your hands, renew your mind, reignite your fire, order your steps, and give you wisdom to maneuver through every obstacle without abandoning what He entrusted to you.

Go in grace.

Go in wisdom.

Go in renewed strength.

And keep moving.

God bless you!

Apostle Dr. G. Denise Gray

Lead Apostle & General Overseer

Manifestation of His Glory Network, Inc.