As many as are led by The Spirit they are the sons of God.
- DAILY READING Matthew 20:1-16; Numbers 13-14; Ecclesiastes 9:1-12
According to scientists, the bumblebee’s body is too heavy and its wing span too small. Aerodynamically, the bumblebee cannot fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it keeps flying.
Looking at yourself and your limitations will only keep you grounded. When God called Moses to deliver Israel, Moses was looking at his limitations. When he told God he couldn’t talk, God asked him who made man’s mouth. But when Moses looked away from his own limitations and looked unto God, he did the impossible. He defied pharaoh and terrified all of Egypt and delivered Israel.
When you don’t know your limitations, you go out and surprise yourself. The only limitations a person has are those that are self-imposed. When we can look away from our abilities or inabilities and look only to God we can do great things.
The journey of greatness is not accomplished by your own strength. It is only accomplished by God working through you.
Paul said ‘I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me’. Gideon was not qualified in his own strength to face the Midianites. In fact he was scared of them and was in hiding because he was looking at his own limitations. But when God visited him, the same Gideon defeated the Midianite army. It is not by might nor by Power but by My Spirit says The Lord.
It is time to start looking away from your own strength and start looking unto God.
This is why the starting point in our journey to greatness is to be in the right place with God. It is knowing that God is with you that gives you the confidence to forge ahead.
This is why you need to take time to hear from God.
What is it that God has assigned you to do in this life? Find out from Him through prayer. Only Him, has the plan and blueprint for your life. Know exactly what He is asking you to do. And then when you are certain you have heard from God, then you can be sure that His power for accomplishment will also be released to you.
Do not look at yourself, rather become totally dependent upon God. Draw strength from Him daily through a consistent prayer life and study of the scriptures.
When God sends you, He goes with you, Jesus said ‘I did not send Myself, He that sent Me is with Me’. It is this Presence of God going with you that destroys every opposition on the way. In psalm 114, the bible says ‘The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob’
The sea, hills, mountains which represented problems were trembling and running away because of the Presence of God that surrounded Israel when they left Egypt.
Divine Presence makes the journey easy.
Do not send yourself. The reason why many take off only to fall along the way is because they sent themselves. God will only back you up on when He is the One that has assigned you. This is why it is important to wait on Him first and hear what He is asking you to do.
After Paul encountered God and got his assignment, he said ‘I conferred not with flesh and blood’. It was the confidence that he had heard directly from God that gave Paul the audacity and ruggedness to move forward in his assignment despite the many oppositions. Goers for God are getters for God.
Study everyone that God ever used in the scriptures. They didn’t sit at home and worry over their limitations , they went forward and then God showed up with His power. God has been putting certain dreams and ideas in your mind, what have you done about it. Dreams do not accomplish themselves. You have to run with the vision. Champions are made from challenges. Winners come at the end of the race. Warriors emerge from wars. But If you do nothing, you gain nothing. No pain, no gain.
Do not look at your limitations. It is not about you, it is God that works in you, both to will and to do. So make up your mind to fulfill destiny. What God has put in you must come out for your world to see. Don’t live an unfulfilled life. Don’t sit in one place, wishing and hoping alone. Faith without works is dead being alone. You must prove you faith by your works. Start where you are trusting God.
One of the things can keep men from going forward is fear of the unknown. But then all you need is to know God. For they that do know their God, they shall be strong and do exploits. The more you know God, the more you will have faith, and the more fear will depart from you. faith and fear cannot dwell in the same place. So invest time in getting to know God through His Word and He will cause you to excel in life.
PRAYER: Lord please help me to build my life upon the solid foundation of Your Word and prayer, help me to pay the required price to be led by Your Spirit always, not my will be Yours be done in Jesus name.
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When God places His hand upon a man in life nothing can come against him, this is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. WORDBITE 222.
[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK FAITH CLASSICS]