HASTE NOT

It is very presumptuous for one to haste in their everyday habitat. We, as a people, generally have a format for our lives. This blueprint is designed to make our lives a little easier and less complicated. This thinking is called haste. When one haste, that is to have excessive speed or urgency of movement or action, hurry. Haste appears to make everything in our lives go faster and smoother. Yes, hasting will cause things to go faster or smoother but things will not flow.

Haste can be very dangerous if not monitored carefully. We, as Christians, the body of Christ, should never do anything in haste. Hasting is not only in movement, but your mind can also take this path. Beloved, the most high God in the heavens and the Earth knows all things. And all things are well with His children only if we take heed (listen carefully) to slow down to His word and to hear it (hearken) to it and then do it. Hearing the word of God is a mandate for your lives. You are not to only be hearers of the word but doers also. We are to be quick to hear and slow to speak. Quick to hear and slow to speak. God wants to reiterate this to you so you can truly grasp what He is telling you. This is a marvelous conception from heaven. The body of Christ is to haste, quick to hear, but slow to speak. God tells us to haste in hearing His word, but when it comes to our actions and mobilities, we are to be slow.

It is always our actions (what we do) that normally cause a wreck in our lives. Some of us can still hear that ever lingering echo voice of the accuser, the enemy, in our inner thoughts, “what did you do now?” We are always to rebuke those negative thoughts with great authority righteously given to us in Jesus Christ’s name. The accuser of the brethren (the body of Christ) the enemy of our souls is constantly accusing the brethren of something we did or said. But God wants to assure you that when you slow down your walk, slow down your talk, slow down your thinking, and slow down your dream patterns, the adversary will no longer be able to accuse you and say to you, “what have you done now?”

Slowing down is a wonderful virtue for the entire body of Christ. When you are anxious it will give off the persona and counteract everything good and wholesome, righteous and holy that you have accomplished as ineffective and void. It diminishes all of your achievements when you appear to be anxious or in a rush. It tears down the way one destroys a brick wall. A crane attached to a bulldozer can literally destroy a wall in a moment’s time. The crane can literally destroy something that has taken years to build in a split second. This is exactly what the accuser will do through people who he can use to destroy all that you have built.

Beloved of God, we must be calm and cool at all times even in the midst of a storm. This is the only way for us to have good results. When we haste or hurry we appear not to be together, or organized and we send a flavor of uncertainty in our capabilities. Although we have been trained and presented with degrees, licenses, awards, we still must have an outer appearance layer of calmness, certainties, and confidence. This calmness begins in our hearts and minds as believing and trusting God and having faith in Him and only Him and not our circumstances. We are not to put our trust in man, but God only. This however will give an outer appearance of confidence and self-assurance and positivity in the outcome of everything because our hope and faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Pre-adventure (imagine) your employer is having a most offsetting day. We can always, as Christians, discern or observe the matter when this is happening to our employers. You, as a Christian, knowing that it is going to be fine because of the fact that it is your employer and because anything that affects your employer will affect you. Therefore, the outcome can only be good because you are a Christian. This gives you the perfect opportunity as a Christian to go to your private workplace and pray to God for your employer. Just a quick prayer; “Lord Jesus, bless my employer with wisdom and grace, in Jesus’ name, amen”. You see there beloved, that was a quick prayer. You were led to slow down, your mind and your body, just for a minute prayer. The outcome of not panicking or being anxious will be remarkable of your slowing down and not panicking because your employer is upset, and not to mention every once in a while to buy a cup of coffee or expresso for your employer. One cup of a simple coffee or expresso can turn their day around and not to mention your employer seeing the Christ in you and the love of God permeating from your heart. That’s all it takes is one good deed of love and not being in panic mode but just slowing down your pace.

Yes, beloved, you must slow down and be like a simmer like a well-prepared meal in a pot. The results will be marvelous. Slow down your mind as well as your body. God wants you to be calm, relaxed, and be anxious for nothing, but always come to Him and pray for what is lacking and not worry or rush for anything. Have faith in God and haste not. Amen.

“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:” (JAMES 1:19 KJV)

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; “ (PHILIPPIANS 4:6 NKJV)

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (MATTHEW 22: 37-39 KJV)

Glory be to God,

Reverend Helen Trower