Impossible With Man

I had prayed to God for a promotion on my job and had felt like the perfect opportunity came to me. Our department went through a reorganization and two units were combined into mine. The previous managers responsible for those workloads were both in higher levels of position than I was. Although the work was a lot, I felt like God was answering my prayer. Problem was, there was no movement on upgrading my position or any talk of offering me a promotion.

After a month of taking on this new workload I asked my boss about upgrading my position. He said that would not be possible at this time. Anger, hurt and all the other emotions filled my soul. So, I put together paperwork that justified my promotion. I submitted the paperwork to my boss and his boss, and of course the paperwork came back denied. I was so angry at them but I was also angry at God. I went to God complaining, “I asked you for a promotion and you gave me all the work without the salary increase or the title”.

As I am writing this devotional God is reminding me of the Israelites when Moses went to tell Pharaoh to free his people. Pharaoh said no to Moses and he gave the Israelites even harder work. They were tasked with making brick with no straw to use, and the people complained to Pharaoh and were angry at Moses.

It took about seven or eight months before God promoted me. He actually moved my whole section from our current division and put us under a totally different deputy. The first day under this new deputy he asked me what he could do for me. I told him about the promotion and the things that had taken place and he told me to consider it done. The following day I received a phone call from personnel telling me that my paperwork had been approved.

God’s timing is never the same as our timing, and His answers to our prayers are always more than we could think or imagine. I was starting to look for another job, but God kept telling me to sit tight and trust Him. I could have never imagined my division being moved and being placed under a new director.

Faith: believing God when everything around us says no and the situation looks nearly impossible.

Don’t give up, God has a strategy in taking care of his people that we could never imagine!

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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