Finish What You Started! 12-7-25

Welcome to the word for the week. Finish what you started. Everything that God has instructed you to do you need to make sure you do it. Do not get this confused because there many things that you were simply supposed to get in position for. The time was not at hand. Instead, it was preparation time for you. Moses spent forty years on the backside of the desert. It was only after of all that time had passed that he was finally ready. Finish what you started does not mean the parts that only God can do. It means doing all of the things that are in your power and control to do. For instance, Joshua prayed about a loss and God told him to get up and do something about it. The point is you have to know your part from God’s part. The question is do you?

Finish what you started does not mean you cross the finish line. It means if you have started the process of something then make sure you finish your part. There are some times when God wants us to get started and then He will finish it. He told Israel to march around Jericho seven times and not say a word. It was God who got the victory for them. The point to know is that there are times when God puts us in position to start something but He is the One who must finish it. Again, do you know the difference between your part and God’s part? If it seems like you will find yourself starting and stopping at times then you are absolutely correct. That is actually the whole point of this week’s word. You have to know when to move and when to be still. That is the reason why so many people miss it when it comes to God. They simply do not know their part from His part and they do not understand this thing called timing.

Timing with God is one of the most important but misunderstood things we can face. We struggle with God’s timing because we want things in our timing. We struggle with waiting on God because it makes us wonder if He’s really going to do something. Around a crowd of people your faith may be through the roof but that crowd is not always going to be there. What do you do when the lights are out and there’s no sound you can hear? This is where we have to be honest. God can show you something for later on in the day and you will still want it at the very moment He even spoke it. You never think what do you need not only to get what He said but to keep what He said. You just know you heard it and you think you are ready. You may want that one hundred million dollars but I can assure you that you cannot put all of that in your local bank. So, if you get that amount money do you even know where you will put it? Who is going to help you manage it?

Hopefully, these points have made you rethink how much you say you are ready for. There are plenty of things that God has in store for you that will require you to have a serious life of prayer before it happens. Do you have that as we speak? Do you know God’s word? Do you live by it? When no one else is watching you who are you? The higher of an altitude you go also means the further down you can fall. Are you built to get to a high place and stay there? Do you have your own inner ambitions in subjection to the will and timing of God’s ambitions for you? If you have to stand alone and fight in faith are you prepared to do that? If nobody else believes what God spoke to you will you still believe it? Can you trust that God is still there by your side when things are not going to plan? If you lose a lot before you get there will still have hope that God will give you double for your troubles? You have to be sure that you understand this journey is not for the faint of heart. The way to your victory is through Christ alone. As we used to say in church, only Christ is the way. Any other way is sinking sand. Will you finish what you started?

May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in His grace,
Bishop Carlos J. Lennon