2 Chronicles 20:20
‘Believe in the Lord God, so shall you be Established, believe Also in his Prophets, so shall you Prosper!’ 
• DAILY READING – –   Revelation 2; Nehemiah 3; Psalm 97
The book, ‘African Apostles: Volume 1 (Patriarchs and Pacesetters)’ details the lives and times of great African preachers. In this book the story is told of an unusual opportunity for a blessing that visited a group of passengers on a flight to Lagos. According to the story, in the late 1970’s American Pentecostal Evangelist, TL Osborn, and his wife, Daisy Osborn, after a visit to archbishop Benson Idahosa in Benin, were late to catch their flight to Lagos.  This flight was meant to be a connecting flight from Johannesburg to France, England and then the USA.

By the time Idahosa took his guests to the airport, they were told that the last flight for the day was overbooked. Not one seat was available, the passengers had boarded and the flight about to take off.

However Idahosa requested an opportunity to plead with the passengers, which was granted him. When he climbed into the plane, he explained to the passengers that two of God’s special servants needed to get to Lagos immediately, and asked for two people who will sacrifice their seats, so that God’s servants could board. No one responded immediately. But as Idahosa slowly walked down the aisle, a young businessman rose from the back of the plane and asked his assistant sitting next to him to get up too. They both gathered their belongings to get down, giving up their seats. Impressed, Idahosa stopped the young man in the aisle and inquired who he was. The young man gave his name and his line of business. Idahosa then pronounced a blessing over him saying “The world will get up for you, My God will bless you! God will take you and your business beyond Africa and bless you beyond measure”. Though the other passengers on board cheered and applauded, what they didn’t know then was that the young man had connected to a highly prophetic moment.    

According to that prophetic blessing the world has since stood up for that young man. Though, not a Christian, but through this  strategic connection to prophetic blessing, this man has eventually become the richest man in Africa, the richest black man  and one of the richest men in the world. He has become a household name whose products such as salt, sugar, cement are used almost in every home in the country. 

2 Chronicles 20:20 says ‘Believe in the Lord God, so shall you be Established, believe Also in his Prophets, so shall you Prosper!’ 

Prophetic blessings are real. 

God often gives us opportunities for a change of destiny. And when we recognize and receive such opportunities a sudden positive change of story follows.  

People who think success comes only through strength and skill end up frustrated.  It is through Prophetic blessings that destinies are repositioned. In Genesis 32 Jacob encountered such a repositioning when he was blessed by the angel of God.  

Proverbs 11:11 says, “By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted…” This means the blessing from the men and women of God appointed or anointed to bless, is what lifts a city or people to the ‘topmost’ top.

If we therefore desire to reach the top, we must be sensitive to respond to instructions from such men and women of God.  Blessings don’t flow automatically; they flow by a covenant positioning. When the widow of Zarephath in 1 kings 17:1-24, gave up her last meal for the prophet she encountered an unexpected blessing that preserved her and her son from the raging famine. Let us therefore rightly position ourselves today to respond to the divine call to lay down whatever is required of us for the sake of God’s kingdom. And as we are sensitive to step in when the water is stirred, we will never miss our blessings.  

PRAYER:  Lord, please grant me the grace for obedience to divine instructions. May I be sensitive always to lay down whatever is required of me for the sake of Your kingdom, so as to connect to my blessings in Jesus Name. 
QUOTE 

It takes a heart for God to make a mark in the sands of time. – WORDBITE 201. 

 [ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK SUPERNATURAL LOVE OF GOD]