"Good things are for other people, not for me."
How it sounds in your head: You see your friends getting internships, relationships, opportunities—doors just opening for them. But you? You're the exception. The one things don't work out for. Maybe you're meant to be the supportive friend, the behind-the-scenes person. Maybe you're just not the main character in your own story.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
-- Jeremiah 29:11Enemy using pattern recognition from disappointments to convince her she's outside God's goodness.
She's watched friends get opportunities she applied for, relationships she wanted, breakthroughs she prayed for. The pattern feels undeniable—everyone else, but not her.
She was barren while her rival wife had children and mocked her for YEARS. Felt overlooked, forgotten, the exception to blessing. Then God remembered her—she conceived and bore Samuel, who became one of Israel's greatest prophets. She went from mockery to testimony.
I REFUSE the lie that good things are for everyone else but not for me. IT IS WRITTEN that God's thoughts toward ME are for peace, to give ME a future and hope. I am not the exception—I am the beloved daughter. God didn't spare His own Son for me—how will He not FREELY give me all things? IT IS WRITTEN in Psalm 84:11, 'No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.' I walk in the righteousness of CHRIST. Every good and perfect gift is mine. I am blessed and highly favored.
Your Father isn't playing favorites with everyone else while forgetting you—He's writing a story in your life that will make others weep at His faithfulness. What looks like delay is actually Him preparing something greater than what you originally asked for.