Why Do Some People Get All The Breaks, While Others Stay Stuck In the Same Spot?

Why do some people seem to get all the breaks, and doors opened to them, and others can't seem to get anywhere?  Is optimism the key?  Did God ask us to be an optimist?  God asked us to be so MUCH MORE than an optimist.  God asked us to believe in the impossible, because all things are possible with God.

The children of Israel were pressed up against the red sea and Pharaoh on their backs.  They were hemmed in and death on all sides.  Have you ever been in a circumstance where you were stuck between a rock and a hard place?  Have you ever been stuck in circumstances where you have no way out?  Some people seem to always find a way forward, and others seem to always be stuck.  What is the key?

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Why do you cry unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:  But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

The Lord said to Moses, why do you cry out to me.  Speak to the children of Israel to move forward...

Move forward!  Oh!  Of all the brilliant ideas!  Hello, there is a sea in the way!  Do you realize that no matter what obstacle you are facing, God is expecting you to move forward.    How many times have I heard people say something like, "I can't do this because of this or that."  Or they will say, "After I get this resolved, or this other thing taken care of, or go to the bank, or get transportation..."   People often say, "I am waiting on God to give me this or that, or provide the way, or to open the doors."   Listen, Israel had NO OPEN doors here, yet God says, "Why do you cry out to me, tell the people to move forward." Too many people are waiting on an open door, or a better circumstance before they move forward in life.  But Moses had no open door here.  He had a closed sea in his way! 

What did he tell Moses?  Lift up your rod and stretch out your hand.  Oh,  we don't like to lift up and stretch out do we?  We want God to hand us an open door without us lifting up or stretching out.   We sit and pray.  We pray and wait.  But we hesitate to move forward.       How does God open a door for us?   We got to lift up, and stretch out!  If you can receive it, know that doors from God usually do NOT open until AFTER you take a step of faith and move forward where there is no door.  Those who want to see an open door before they get up and move forward usually stay stuck right where they are in life.  

Look at Joshua and the walls of Jericho.   They lifted up their voices and stretched out their legs to march, and the walls came down.  Are you lifting up and stretching out what you got, or are you sitting down making excuses?    Look at Noah.  What did he do?  He lifted up and stretched out, and built a boat.  He wasn't sitting around waiting upon laborers, and money, and better circumstances!    Why are you sitting around waiting upon more laborers to help you accomplish God's plan?  Get yourself up off your hind end, lift up and stretch out whatever God's already put in your hand, and move forward on dry ground.  When you lift up and stretch out, your will find that God miraculously opens up a door right in front of you!   It was there all the time!  Just keep moving forward!