When things aren’t going the way they should

If you have been following along on this blog for the last few weeks – you will have discovered that I drive a Mazda RX-8. You will also know that I felt strongly that God told me to get this car, and that it was a fulfilment of a long-standing dream of mine.

But since I have owned that car – a lot has happened to it. It has been vandalised about 5 times, where people have scratched all down the side of the car with their keys, so about 5 panels on my car now need re-spraying.

I reversed it in to a post that I just didn’t see. I have never done this in over 15 years of driving.

Someone ran their car in to the back of it, scrapping the paint of the back bumper. They then drove off without telling me about it. So much for honesty.

All told, there has been about £2,000 worth of damage done to that car.

A few weeks ago, I had 2 new tyres put on the back at a cost of £380. Last week, one of those tyres needed replacing – it had burst. This was not a “warranty issue” according to the tyre people – so that was another £180 on a tyre.

Never have I had some much bad stuff happen to one car. Even my non-Christian friends tell me that the car is jinxed.

But I distinctly remember what God said to me. I even wrote it down. He told me what car to get off what person. So I did. I was obedient.

So why so much attack on something that I believe God is in?

Could I have missed God? Believe me when I say that I have asked this question many times throughout the last year of owning this car. Maybe I did miss God? Is it too ostentatious? Was it just materialism raising its head?

Every time I have asked that question, I always come back to the same answer – God definitely said it was OK. Even my wife thinks so.

So one of the big questions on my mind – if God said this was OK – why so much attack?

This was my answer from God.

“The answer is simple, Matt. The enemy attacks most what you have been called into. Take on of your heroes, Joseph.

Did you ever notice that I had called Joseph in to leadership? I called him to influence a nation. The enemy knew this, so he turned his brothers against him and got Joseph into slavery. Slaves don’t influence nations. Slaves are the opposite to leaders.

So I worked with Joseph as a slave. Has his favour grew, the enemy stuck again. This time putting him in jail. If there is one person who is less like to influence a nation than a slave, it is a slave in jail.

The two big areas of attack in Joseph’s life were against his calling to leadership.

I have called you into prosperity, to live it and teach it. To demonstrate it, so don’t be surprised when the enemy tries to attack this area of your life the most.

Your first big attack in life was towards your finances. The second was towards your job. But I have worked in both.

Don’t be afraid of the attack. Don’t get frustrated when it happens. Just laugh, and sit back – because I will turn it around.”

For me, it took a while to get my head around owning an RX-8. It was a dream that God fulfilled – and the enemy hates that. He couldn’t stop me getting in – but he seems to be trying to make owning it miserable.

So it is not jinxed. The enemy is scared. Scared of what this means for me and for him. I know the call of God in my life – to live and teach prosperity, God’s true prosperity. I know that my business and my ministry are the same thing. I know that I desire to give.

That is my calling. The enemy cannot stop this from coming to pass. No way. But he will try and make it seem that the path is difficult and frustrating to walk. He might not be able to take me off “this path”, but he will try and slow me down.

So how do I handle it now when this happens? Well I just do what God said. I just sit back, and laugh. I refuse to get annoyed or frustrated, but rather I set myself in faith to see what God is gonna do.

God always wins. He always has the final word and the last laugh. Just watch and wait because something better will happen now as a result of all of this.

1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.