Isaiah 14:27  ‘For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?’

DAILY READING; • John 6:1-21; 1 Chronicles 22:2-23:32; Zechariah 9

Fred Hammond is an award winning, Gospel singer and record producer.

In 2011, while on ‘The Donnie McClurkin Show’, he shared a powerful story of how God divinely protected him, even after his mother had an abortion procedure that should have killed him. He said his mother only revealed this story to him just before her death, when he was 47 years old.

Tearfully, Fred’s mother had told him of how after making the mistake of having an unwanted pregnancy, she had gone to a clinic to get an abortion. After the doctors had done the abortion, there was blood and she was told to go home, and expect the remains of the baby to flow out. However, when she got home, nothing flowed out as the doctors had said. So after three days, she went back to the Clinic. They checked her again and surprisingly found out that the baby was still in there. So she was asked to lie down again so that they could properly evacuate the baby this time.  But as she laid down and they got their tools to destroy the baby, she said she suddenly had a strange feeling as if God was going to kill her. And without any explanation to the doctors, she just jumped up, and ran out of the clinic.

After that, she carried the pregnancy to full term and gave birth to Fred.

Fred Hammond, concluding the story, said “At the end of the day when I was supposed to be discarded and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head, the Lord took his hand, and pushed me back out of the way.  And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Indeed God’s plan for Fred Hammond is manifest today, as he has become a generational Gospel music icon and a great blessing to many people globally.

Isaiah 14:27 says ‘For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?’

Indeed God’s divine purpose for you no one can thwart. The truth is that the enemy doesn’t fight you for where you are, he fights you for where you’re going. Some of the fights you are facing now, is because of what is in your destiny. However, God’s divine purpose for you is sure. No man has the power to abort it as long as you remain connected to God.

Despite the instruments of the wicked that try to abort your purpose, God will keep you hidden, where no harm can touch you. The enemy may try his utmost best to stop you, but understand that your life is hid in Christ in God. [Colossians 3:3]. Indeed your life and times are only in God’s hands.

We must therefore ignore oppositions and focus on fulfilling God’s divine purpose for us. God has brought each of us into His kingdom for such a time as this to fulfill a definite part of His overall plan. From Joel chapter 2, we understand that the end-time generation of believers are born to do exploits. The truth is that God has saved the best for the last, and every believer existing at this time is especially equipped for signs and wonders. You are not ordinary. Therefore never underrate yourself, you are a carrier of a glorious destiny and you have especially been packaged from Heaven and sent into the earth at this time. All the battle against you has been an attempt to abort that divine purpose within you. Yet despite all, God continues to protect and preserve you.

God has kept you alive to fulfill the great destiny He has placed within you. However, you must decide if you are going to bless the world or rob it of the exploits God has purposed through you.

Therefore you can no longer afford to ‘play church’ or pursue vain glory. You must pursue purpose and stay focused. And to fulfill purpose you must stay committed to God’s Word.

It is through the faith and strength that comes from God’s Word that we can accomplish His will for us. Of our own selves we can do nothing, but through Christ we can do all things. Indeed it is God that works in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

And as we follow His divine purpose, God will protect us and strategically orchestrate our steps, and we are going to see Ephesians 3:20: “Exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we could ask think or imagine”.

PRAYER

Lord, Please help me to corporate with Your plans and purpose for me through walking in line with Your Word. I know that as long as I am obedient to Your Word, no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper in Jesus Name.

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The battle you are faced with today is a good warfare because God has already foreordained  victorious end for you. WORDBITE 222