Life-Giving Words of Hope & Encouragement

A pilot friend told me there are four main principles to master when flying airplanes: lift, thrust, weight, and drag. You have to consider all these to ensure the plane will fly. It struck me that these same principles apply to specific types of people. Some lift you, brighten your day, cheer you up, and make you feel better about yourself. You meet them, and you have a spring in your step. They’re a lift. Then some people thrust you. They inspire you, motivate you, challenge you to move forward and pursue your dreams. The third group are weights. They pull you down and dump their problems on you so that you leave feeling heavier, negative, discouraged, and worse than you did before. Finally, some are a drag. They’ve always got a sad song. The dishwasher broke. The goldfish died. They didn’t get invited to a party. They’re stuck in a pit. They expect you to cheer them up, fix their problems, and carry their loads. These people are manipulators and controllers.

We all encounter people from each of these four groups, so you have to ensure you’re spending most of your time with lifters and thrusters. If you’re only hanging out with weights and drags, it will keep you from becoming everything you were created to be. It will stop you from fulfilling your God-given destiny. No matter what you are struggling with and how long something has run in your family, I declare it ended when it ran into you. You are a child of the Most High God and more than a conqueror!

God’s Word is filled with His promises. It had been twenty-five years since God promised Abraham he would become the father of many nations. Now, at ninety years old, Sarah laughed at the seeming impossibility of having a son. God told her, “You may be doubting, and you don’t see how, but I have already set the right time.” Even though the fulfillment took far longer than they thought, at the appointed time, it happened just as God had said.

Whatever God has promised you, He’s already set the right time. It’s already in your future, but you must understand that God’s timing is not ours. On the way to your promise being fulfilled, there will be opportunities to get discouraged and give up on what you believe in. Don’t live with an “it’s never going to happen” mentality; live with a “right time mentality.” The same goes for the people you allow to speak into your life. If you knew the right time was coming in one month, you wouldn’t waste time trying to figure it out or be worried. God doesn’t tell us when but promises to make it happen when the time is right. I hope this speaks to you; and I pray you have a blessed day!