There will be many lonely days when help is unavailable. But God will always be there for you even though you may not see or know He is right beside you.

Sometimes you just want to give up because you can’t see how you could succeed. Your confidence breaks down and you want to give up.

We read in Proverbs 13:12,

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” (ESV)

The results may not be as you anticipate. And nothing seems to be happening. And so, your spirit breaks down. Yet you must not give up hope. Continue to believe and continue climbing the steep mountain even as failure seems to stare you in the face.

There are discouragements along the way, but your faith in God will take you through. Righteous living, despite the hardships, and your steadfast faith in God will provide the strength to press on. For God promises to give us strength if we walk in His presence.

The journey may be long and weary, but God promises that He will not let us down. Circumstances may become hard, and help may seem far away, or may even appear not to be available. But God is always near us.

Continue in prayer and service to God and others. Even when darkness engulfs you. God knows what is in your heart (1 Samuel 16:7; Jeremiah 17:10). He will provide the way and the means. Maintain a steadfast integrity before God, and He will give you the power to get wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18; Deuteronomy 28:1-13).

Joseph had dreams, or visions, that God was going to make him great. Yet Joseph went through difficult times. His own siblings could not believe him and even plotted against him. He was sold into slavery, falsely accused of attempted rape and imprisoned. Yet he maintained his integrity before God and would not sin against God (Genesis 39:9).

And God brought him out of prison to become a prominent person in Egypt. It took thirteen years for him to achieve the vision (Genesis 39:1 through Genesis 41:57).

Joseph did not understand why God appeared to be silent when he was treated unfairly. He did not know that was the path that God was taking him through to attain the vision. Yet he continued to believe in God and in himself.

Challenges will come, but you will be stronger than them if God’s Spirit indwells you.

Neuroscience proves that if you truly believe you’ll die, you will eventually end up dying. Because there would be no motivation in you to want to live. Your entire system would surrender to your negative or positive thoughts.

You can train your mind to accept positive or negative thoughts. By serious contemplation — thinking on anything in your mind — you can use the mind to train yourself to achieve a purpose.

The God-Spirit in you is greater than all the challenges in the world (1 John 4:4). The God-Spirit in you can turn you into a new person (I Samuel 10:6).

So, discard negative thoughts from your mind. Reject hate, anger, fear and doubt from your mind.

We read in Ephesians 4:22-23,

22 … to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds. (ESV)

Let your faith lead you to believe Jesus and God’s Word. You are what you are because of your mindset.

If you do not achieve it today, expect it tomorrow for tomorrow will come. That is Mañana (in Spanish). Tomorrow will always come. Mañana in Spanish is an indefinite time in the future. So, in Spanish it means‘tomorrow.’

I know a man (whom I shall name Mañana) who was scorned by some people, including his wife. Just as Joseph and David were slighted by others (including their siblings). His dream of ‘mañana’ became his song.

He resolved in his mind that he would become successful no matter how long it would take. He had no money, but that did not stop him from believing. Though he knew that lack of financial resources would delay his achievements, he believed that the lack of financial resources would not be an insurmountable impediment to his success.

Don’t lose hope. Don’t be angry even when you do not readily get help from others. Take your complaints to God. Remember that tomorrow will come, and when it comes it will bring help. Joseph relied on God. God remembered him and took him out of prison to become a prominent person in Egypt.

You might not have achieved success when you were younger. You can still achieve great laurels. Do not give up even if you are past 60. George Mueller did not perceive age as a barrier to continue achieving great things for Jesus. At 70, after he retired from the orphanage, George Mueller believed he was still relevant and so decided to embark on a worldwide ministry of preaching and teaching.

For a seventeen-year period, he toured the USA three times, India twice, Australia and other British colonies three times. He preached in 42 countries, including China and Japan. He addressed meetings up to 5,000 people at a time. He estimated that during that 17-year period he had addressed more than 3,000,000 people.

He ended his travels when he was eighty-eight and died at 92. He was still active in his church. On the evening of March 9, 1898, he led a prayer meeting at the church. The next day a cup of tea was taken to him at 7 in the morning. But no answer came to the knock on the door. When the door was opened, he was found dead on the floor beside his bed.

God did not make a mistake for creating you or in placing you where you are now. Wherever you are, and whatever honest work you are doing, the Lord says He shall bless the work of your hand, (Deuteronomy 28:12-13). So, our friend Mañana believed he could become successful if he resolved in his mind to become successful. And God blessed him.

Your decision will change your situation. It may not be immediate, but it will come – mañana (tomorrow) will come.

Carry through with your decisions despite the challenges, mocking and discouragements you encounter.

Success depends on the mind. We read in Mark 11:22-24,

So, Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.  For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (NKJV)

But you must act on your belief. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead, (James 2:26). Mañana’s friends, relatives and wife could not comprehend how he was going to succeed, just as people slighted Joseph and David. Yet Mañana achieved his goal for God blessed the work of his hands.

Overcoming negative habits like fear, laziness and procrastination requires conscious efforts. The brain accepts and adapts to the information that we feed it. After some time, the information is imprinted as a pattern of behavior and becomes a habit.

Our beliefs make us act. Our positive actions lead us to success.

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. (Hebrews 10:35-36; ESV).