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SHARERS IN GOOD BUT EXCLUDED FROM ALL EVILS - Where Art Thou Series 010?
Psalms 17:4-5, KJV
"4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not."
When you follow God's command and you're ordered by His instructions, you'll be preserved. One, God's word will set you right not to keep company with those who could get you ruined. Two, God's word will so much become light ruling your life that as you live by it, it ensures your life and affairs doesn't hit any rock or cross path with anything that can bring you destruction.
Some have companied with those who plunged them into tragedies but God's word lived and followed would rather exclude you from dangers and any snare of the destroyer. There are those who didn't know what came upon or was motivating them. However, they were moved out of a jurisdiction that God has put their preservation and located their provision. They just had a motivation to move. These are people that ten thousands of demons couldn't get but who are now vulnerable to temptations and even backsliding upon moving. You must know that the will of God for any Christian is very germane. See the will of God as a circle that's drawn for you in which your affairs must be conducted and life lived but which can open you to attacks of the devil when you break the hedge of that circle through disobedience by stepping outside the jurisdiction God draws for you.
As I persisted on this series, I have brought you the story of Naomi and Ruth who relocated back to Bethlehem. Do remember that this relocation was prompted by the good news they heard on God having revisited His people with food. Upon that visitation however, God begins to guide the path of Naomi, even Ruth's so that His claims over them would come to pass. When Ruth takes permission of Naomi to check out to go and glean on any farm she would be permitted, she didn't intend to glean on the farm of a relative of theirs. As a matter of fact, she has no foreknowledge of Boaz. However, the Bible comments succinctly this way on how it goes.
Ruth 2:3, NLT
"So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters. And as it happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the relative of her father-in-law, Elimelech.
Have you gone to keep an appointment before only to discover the fellow you were to meet is someone who knows you and that you know? How God has chosen to butter your bread? That'll be favour in manifestation for you. Two weeks ago, I applied for something online. When I went to keep appointment with the founder and representative of that institution, as we got talking, we discovered that both of us are of Anglican background from Yewa Diocese Area of Ogun State. I told him he might know the father who raised me up in Christianity while I was growing up in Ayetoro since he mentioned they are from the same hometown of Isaga-Orile. He immediately gives him a call, put the phone on loud speaker and hand it over to me to declare my presence to him also. It was a convergence of Yewa people that day. So, I got the offer I went to pursue though I still had to pass through due processes which I passed. Favour just flowed for me additionally by God having sent me to someone from my nativity.
Now, let's ask ourselves, "how did Ruth get here?" Did she just jump on Boaz's portion? No! Providence made it so. God's guidance could have made it so. My guidance to that man began when that offer looked attractive to me to apply for at first. I just had a motivation that this one is possible and is mine. I like it when God guides people. They can't but become different in experience. It'll be clear that their fate is different from others'. This is where the Spirit is leading us this morning. Like somebody hypnotized, you can choose to go on a journey of great things. Even if you wander or take a stroll unplanned into a place, it can serve a purpose in God's hands at day's end. As if you had seen events lying ahead, you can be guided to choose a lot or part where good is hidden. There is the mystery of the guided hands. Have you seen basketball players make a throw? Well trained ones would have their throws run into the net even if the shot was taken from a distance. Then, you'll wonder and ask with mouth agape, "how?" To attain such peak of excellence, much trainings had to have gone into it. He had failed many times before he began making in-throws his habit. However, you don't have to engage in trial and error once you let God lead or guide you. You'll just see that under the Spirit's guidance, it'll be people and places that'll favour you you'll often choose or walk into. You'll just observe that if there are four interview joints, you'll find yourself (no matter how the card is shuffled) with the team where somebody who knows or takes a natural liking to you would be. As such, when others are wailing and saying, "it's tough and this is no good news at all", you'd say, "praise God! What a lifting up!"
People, you can find yourself where it's happening or would soon happen. People who are unaware that you were guided by the Lord and are ignorant of how it had worked out perfectly might accuse you of colliding with some unknown authorities but you'll know deep down that, "this is the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our sight."
You can find yourself in the right country! You can find yourself in the right group! You can find yourself in the right course! That's what would work for you beyond your imagination at day's end. You might not have planned it but when you reckon it, you'll praise it as the best option ever.
PRAYER: The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places. Behold, I have a goodly heritage. I choose right! I am located right. Whenever my things fall or are distributed, it'll fall right.
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