Why HOPE when.......

Last night, my flesh wondered 'Why should I HOPE, each time I do I feel let down or disappointed'. See the apartment I was hoping for is going to the other single girls (and they don't really want it or to move).

For a short while my flesh took over and thought I should know by now NOT to HOPE for things because what I hope for NEVER seems to come to be. Many who know me closely know all the areas and times I am thinking about right now. My flesh moment wasn't about the apartment really at all. I KNOW God has a bigger and better plan in store. I know with Him everything will fall into place just like it already has. Hasn't He provided for the things back home in Colorado?; My condo, my car, etc..... I remind myself of this, but my flesh still says "WHY DO I CONTINUE TO HOPE?" So I spent some time with God.

I recalled the verses from class that day, which were from Philippians:
4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
4:11 I am not saying this because I am in Need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstance.
4:13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
4:19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

I hadn't read Monday's or Tuesday's devotion yet, so I went to them next. From "God Calling" I read:
September 4 Our God is our supply.
Look to Me for all..Rely on Me for all. Drop those burdens, and then, singing and free, you can go on your way rejoicing. Encumbered with them you will fall. Drop them at My Feet, knowing surely that I will lift them and deal with each one as is truly best.
September 5 Progress is the Law of Heaven....Tomorrow be stronger, braver, more loving than you have been today. The Law of Progress gives a meaning, a purpose to life.

And then, as I was turning to September 5th's in "Teach Me to Pray", I flipped by something I had written on a devotional back on March 9. The scripture reference was Mark 11:24 (NLT) "You can pray for anything and if you believe, you will have it."

I read the title and what I had underlined first:
PERSISTENCE IN PRAYER
At one time it is quiet; at another, bold. At one point it waits in patience, but at another, it claims at once what it desires.

Then I read what I wrote:
2006, Why is mine always waiting in Patience? How much longer must I wait Lord?

Then,September 5: Take time to pray and let Christ's wonderful promise of a new life take possession of your heart. Be content with nothing less than full salvation- Christ living in you, and you living in Christ.

Wow, even though it happens rather frequently, I still find it amazing how my flesh and my heart may be dealing with something and God puts His voice in words and Scripture. He talks and reminds me of exactly what I know to be true and truly believe in my heart, but my flesh tends to forget.

I know that it is my WANTS that NEVER SEEM to come to be, yet I do know that GOD has ALWAYS supplied all my NEEDS.

"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purposes that prevail." Proverbs 19:21