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Don’t hide the grace which the Lord has given you. Go and produce mighty results with the grace which you have received. Shalom!
Apostle Bennie
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Friday, 14th February, 2025
GOD DOESN’T PUSH YOU AROUND 1
“If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way”
Lamentation 3:33 (MESSAGE)
How do you think God makes things hard for you to get?
God doesn’t deal with you based on the principle of “suffer to gain”.
God doesn’t try to make life hard or make you struggle before you attain success.
He doesn’t make someone’s life easy and the other difficult.
God created both the rich person and the poor person but didn’t create their condition. God doesn’t bring poverty to one and riches to the other. There is no poverty in God.
God didn’t create suffering.
He takes no pleasure in making anyone’s life hard.
And he doesn’t make anyone’s life hard.
“For everything God made is good…” (1 Timothy 4:4)
The desire of God for you is that you prosper. God doesn’t set limitations in your life.
He doesn’t make things difficult for you before He allows you to access the expected success.
“God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, His Spirit deeply and gently within us.” Ephesians 3:20 (Message)
He works His power through you.
It’s important to understand how God works out His plan for you.
Let’s take the story of Joseph as an example.
Through dreams, Joseph saw the future God had planned for him. He knew what he was going to become and was excited about it.
Now, was it God’s plan for Joseph to be sold as a slave?
Was it God’s plan for Joseph to be thrown into prison?
God’s plan was for Joseph to become a ruler for the preservation of His ultimate plan in Christ (which was wrought in Abraham).
In the working of His plan, there are no crooked paths, neither are there “ups and downs”.
The path the Lord has set for you is smooth.
This is proven by God’s work in creation. God did not create any difficulty for man. All that God did was good and for man’s enjoyment. (Genesis 1:31)
In reality, the first day man saw after the day of his creation (6th day) was the seventh day. The day of rest. This means God didn’t design man for struggle. God designed man to live from His rest.
Thus, man’s pursuit of God’s purpose and living must be according to the REST OF GOD.
However, through the corruption of man in Eden, evil found its way into the hearts and affairs of men.
The day Adam believed in the deception of the adversary, he gave the adversary access to the affairs of men. He now found ways to always corrupt, oppose, and contend with the purpose of God in the people of God.
He always opposes God’s purposes and plans in the lives of God’s people through his evil schemes and plots; which he executes through men who allow their hearts to become breeding grounds for evil.
Nonetheless God in His wisdom takes advantage of the evil plots of men to still execute His purpose.
All that God expects from those who are His, is their obedience to His wisdom and counsel.
See what Joseph said to his brothers:
“You plotted evil against me, but God turned it into good, in order to preserve the lives of many people who are alive today because of what happened.” Genesis 50:20 (Good News Translation)
Did you read that well?
I believe you did. If not read the verse again.
You see, God did not plot evil against Joseph in His plan. It was the brothers of Joseph who did. God did not plot that Joseph was to be taken to prison. It was Potipher and his wife who did.
Yet in God’s grand scheme as long as Joseph walked in the obedience of His Word, the evil plots were turned to the advantage of Joseph.
All that Joseph did was trust and walk in the obedience of God’s word. And that was a great demonstration of faith. This gave God continuous legal access to execute His plan in Joseph’s life.
This is what God is doing with you and through you. No matter the negative plots of the enemy to stop you from manifesting God’s great plan for you, He is graciously leading you into the fulfillment of His great purpose. Maintain trust in Him through the process.
He is working it out for your good.
Hallelujah!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdpjoDOaWw&t=2sDIG DEEPER(Romans 8:28; Isaiah 55:8-9; Jeremiah 29:11; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 46:10)
WE PRAYPray that no matter what happens around you, you shall remain firmly confident in God’s word and counsel of His wisdom for your life. BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 20241 YEAR PLANNumbers 14 – 16
2 YEARS PLAN
Genesis 45
DECLARE THESE WORDS:– The path the Lord has set for me is smooth. – God didn’t design me to struggle. – God designed man to live continually from His rest. – I live in obedient to the wisdom and counsel of God. – The Lord has a great plan for my life and I maintain my trust in Him through the process. – God is working His power through me to manifest His glorious purpose for my life. Thank you Lord Jesus!
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