Adam Spags brought a great testimony on Sunday morning about how God had blessed him with a new job. He felt God tell him 3 things to do as he trusted God to provide this job for him.

1. Contend for your blessing
2. Be patient
3. Remain faith-filled

I've been trusting God for some things for a while now but towards the end of last year felt a bit stuck, not really knowing what to do next. God declared 2011 a year of prosperity, and while some have walked into that, for others like me, we haven't seen what we hoped for yet.

Over the last few weeks God has been nudging gently through various sources. Contend for your blessing, wrestle for it in prayer, lay hold of it, don't waver in your belief, don't listen to the 'did God really say?" voice, remain patient. Suddenly I feel encouraged, like I know what to do now, how to continue believing for the prosperity that was promised. Just because 2011 has finished doesn't mean that God's word has fallen to the ground.

When God promises something we have two options: continue to believe for it until we see it, faith being certainty about something we haven't yet seen or to doubt when it doesn't happen in the timeframe we expected.

I have to admit I'm not fully sure what contending looks like, but the lessons we learned when contending for the KingsGate building were that the best way to fight for something is to worship and declare God greatness and victory over a situation. While doing that God may show us particular things to pray into/against or He may highlight things in us that He wants to change, but unless He initiates something we just keep worshipping Him.