Louise Manigault

Faith for All Seasons Louise Manigault

Have you ever looked back over your life and discovered a pattern? There is a time when everything is going very well. Life is giving you love, financial abundance, dreams fulfilled and peace. Then there is a period when everything seems to be slipping away, followed by a really hard time ? a time when life is working against you. People hurt and abandon you. Your finances and sometimes even your career take a plunge. You constantly make the wrong decisions and take the wrong path. You lose things that are precious to you. Just when you want to give up and run away, a tiny ray of hope emerges. Little things begin to happen that give you hope of some improvements and new starts. As you examine your life, you can clearly see the repetitions of these patterns, over and over. They take place over periods of 5, 7 or 10 years. These are your seasons, and it is important to maintain your faith as you live through them. Just as the seasons change, your life cannot remain the same. There will be changes. Some things must die before new wonders can take their places. When you are finding it difficult to accomplish goals, find love or peace, you have to realize what season you are in, and then you need to have patience and wait for the season to change. This is the time when your faith has to be strong. This is the time to trust and rely on God. He is present in every season of your life, and God will not allow you to be lost. If you stay close to Him and have faith in His process, the best of life will be yours again. Galatians 6:9 tells you, ?In due season, you will reap your harvest if you do not faint.? Have faith for all seasons.