Job 8:7-9 [NKJV] ‘Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.’

DAILY READING – Mark 5:21-43; 2 Samuel 14; Daniel 8.

Asa Alonzo Allen was perhaps one of the most important revivalists to emerge during the Voice of Healing revival and was certainly the most sensational of his time.
What makes A.A Allen’s success in ministry all the more amazing is the negative childhood he had to overcome.
Allen was born to alcoholic parents who were wild drunks, and for entertainment gave their kids alcohol and watched them get drunk. Allen’s mother put home brew in his baby bottle to keep him from crying, and he was smoking before he was old enough to go to school.
Allen’s home was not a happy one. When Allen was only four years old, his mother left his father to marry another abusive, alcoholic. Allen eventually ran away from home when he was fourteen years old.
However, he continued to drink heavily and by the time Allen was twenty-one, his health had badly deteriorated. His body shook constantly, he suffered memory loss and was beginning to die like an old man. Hoping to restore his health, he returned home to the farm where his mother still lived. The two of them soon slipped into their old ways of stilling their own liquor and hosting wild parties. Their regular Saturday night shindig became known as the “Allen Dance Hall and Still.”
However they had a neighbor who was a Pentecostal preacher who was starting a Holy Ghost revival in his home. This pastor found Allen’s party such a disturbance, that he and his flock started to pray that the Lord would arrest him.
Soon after that Allen was passing a Methodist church when the singing and dancing attracted him. When he went inside, the power of God arrested him and he gave his life to Christ. From that moment, the wild parties and drinking stopped.
Alllen became acquainted with the pastor and congregation that had been praying for him, and became committed in serving God.
Despite the enemy’s attempt to derail Allen from birth, God’s will prevailed and he eventually became a great revivalist whose worldwide ministry impacted millions of lives for Christ.

Great destinies attract great battles. And sometimes the fight starts right from the womb.
You have to understand that some of the negative circumstances that came against you early in life, were not haphazard occurrences, rather they were strategic attacks of the enemy aimed at aborting the seed of greatness God placed in you.
The intensity of the attacks is often an indication of how important you are in God’s plan because the enemy only fight what he fears.
But no matter what you had to face, always remember that your destiny is in God’s Hands not in the hands of any man.
And despite the negative circumstances, God has a way of initiating a course correction that still locates you in His glorious plan. He knows how to appoint midwives in the path of your destiny that will help birth the seed of greatness embedded in you.
God is able to cause those negative circumstances arrayed against you to backfire and rather end up pushing you forward in life.

Though you may have been raised around dysfunction, that can not stop you from excelling in life. Out of the ashes, God is still able to bring forth beauty.
It is easy to think that if you had better education, parents, relatives, or born under better circumstances, your life would have been better. But it is God’s grace that makes great and when you connect to it you become unstoppable in life’s race.
The truth is that you will never need more than God to succeed in life .
Christ in you is the hope of glory.
As you remain connected to Christ through a deep spiritual walk of obeying His Word and fervent prayers, the lines will eventually fall for you in pleasant places. What was meant for evil will turn around for your good.
If you will forget those things that are behind and keep reaching forward to the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, God will open for you doors no man can shut. God will break through generational barriers and turn a “no way” into a highway for you! He will grant you divine speed to overtake even those who seemed better advantaged and ahead of you. Certainly, it doesn’t take time, it only takes God. And through His divine help, though your beginning was small, your later end shall greatly increase!

PRAYER: Father, by Your grace, I will keep rising higher despite the situations that try to bring me down. I thank You for turning around every negative situation in my life, and establishing Your glorious plan for me in Jesus Name.

QUOTE;
God’s promises in Christ in your life may appear delayed, but never forget that delays are not denials.. -WORDBITE 222