{"id":687,"date":"2018-02-03T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/more-than-coincidence\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:51","slug":"more-than-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"More Than a Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A couple of days ago I posted about \u201cremembering\u201d. In the final paragraph of that post, I spoke about Christ\u2019s words at the Last Supper from Luke 22:19: \u201cAnd He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE of me.”<\/p>\n

COINCIDENCE: a remarkable concurrence of circumstances without apparent causal connection; providence, happenstance.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why the word COINCIDENCE is my word for today. After I had my \u201cremembering\u201d blog ready to post the next morning, Mom, who is busy going through family pictures to sort out which one of us she wants certain photos to go to, pulled out this photo for me. Imagine my joy and delight. Those are my two when Ryan was three and Staci was six months old. As precious as that photo is \u2013 take a look at the words on the pulpit behind them \u201cDo this in remembrance of me.\u201d What an absolute confirmation of how Holy Spirit is so faithful to give me my blog for the next day! I don’t believe it was a mere COINCIDENCE but it was a providential circumstance.<\/p>\n

Albert Einstein once said \u201cCoincidence is God\u2019s way of remaining anonymous.\u201d Actually, most of us are like children playing hide and seek, wanting to be found, yet hoping we won\u2019t be. Once we understand the way life really works \u2014 the flow of God’s energy that directs every moment \u2014 then we begin to see the amazing potential in that moment.lives. <\/p>\n

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When a coincidence happens, we shouldn’t ignore it. We should ask ourselves, “What is the message here? What is the significance of this?” On Thursday, Mom\u2019s home health nurse, Karla, came over to check on her. Here\u2019s the \u201ccoincidence\u201d. Karla was one of the precious gals in my Life Group here in Tulsa. Of all the nurses in Tulsa, Karla became Mom\u2019s nurse — which has been a blessing for both of them. Mom and Karen helped Karla get out of her comfort zone, and Karla has provided such tender loving care to Mom that we couldn\u2019t have been more pleased to have her than if we had \u201cspecial ordered\u201d her. Karla has had some physical issues and needed a an electric bed that would raise her head. Mom is selling her electronic bed in her estate sale and sold it to Karla at a bare minimum — blessing-for-Karla price.<\/p>\n

The point is, we don\u2019t have to go digging for the answers. COINCIDENCES may arrive as a sudden insight or an amazing God-moment — that you look up toward heaven and say “Thanks God! I know you did that!” I choose to believe that God is behind COINCIDENCES.. A Biblical definition of coincidence is \u201cwhat occurs together by God\u2019s providential arrangement of circumstances.\u201d The point is \u2013 we need to stay \u201cin the moment\u201d of each day, so that we can readily recognize God\u2019s hand at work in our lives that gives us the HOW, WHEN, WHERE and WHY we met that person or we went that direction, or we received that phone call, or we were delayed in traffic only to arrive at our destination in God\u2019s perfect timing so that we would see that person that was crying and you were there to comfort them.<\/p>\n

There are no accidents or COINCIDENCES with God. And He has a perfect timing for everything He does.<\/p>\n

“Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, \u2018My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.\u201d Isaiah 46:9\u201310<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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