Faith and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

I was thinking about how Rick Warren and his wife actually expected their son to commit suicide, which he ended up doing about 3 years ago. They said regarding the incident that the day they had dreaded and feared would happen, did. It makes me wonder if their expectation that it would happen in a way actually brought it about.

There is a good quote, "That which we fear most will happen to us." We fear something so much and so we focus on it, and we then bring about the very thing that we fear. What we focus on and expect usually is what ends up happening.

Whatever we expect in any situation in life, whatever we anticipate will happen, most likely will.

If we think our children will fail in school, then they probably will.

If we think that people won't like us, we very well might do things that would cause them to not like us.

If us women think all men are cheaters, we will most likely end up marrying a man who will cheat on us. Or we will do things that might drive them to cheat on us to fulfill what we already believed about them.

Ultimately, whatever you believe about someone is what they will become. You can speak life or death over people and situations. You can also THINK life or death over people and situations. You can visualize failure so much until you make it a reality. Or you can visualize success so much until you make success a reality.

We have to be very careful about what we expect and where our faith is. As Jesus said, "According to your faith, it will be done to you."

What if instead you had FAITH that your children would always succeed in school; that God would cause them to succeed and give them wisdom? That might then cause them to succeed, because you believe in them.

What if we believed that people in general would like us? Such confidence would probably then cause people to like us.

What if a woman believed the best about her man? What if she believed and had faith that he would be faithful to her forever in every way? That might increase the odds that he would.


We really can create our own reality based on our faith and what we think and expect. Prayer begins in our thoughts really. We show God we have faith by what we think about and what we expect. Expect good things, not bad. In that way, you bless your future. Have faith, that God will bring about good to you rather than bad. Faith, believing, it's very, very key.
 

May God help you to increase your faith in every area of your life. Amen.

God bless! :)