Over the past few years I have become increasingly aware of the fact that I am gifted much like Joseph and Daniel in the Bible. I am gifted as an administrator to foresee a problem and to plan how to mitigate against it. Not strangely, God speaks to me in visions and dreams and I have been blessed enough to interact with the trinity in various visions. I have always known that this was not the order of the day for most people and that the assignment on my life was great. But true to Gods nature, he has revealed things to me one step at a time in the journey of my life.
God unveils mysteries and one of the mysteries he unveiled to me this morning is found in Ps 139. As I sought him for direction and clarity in the calling over my life he spoke the truth of this psalm to my spirit. God knows me intimately. More than I know myself. He understands my thought processes, the desires of my heart and their root causes and before a word even enters my mind he knows what I will say and how I will react. He knows me intimately. He knows my innermost being. He sees and knows my spirit, soul and this shell I call my body. Nothing by passes him at any one moment. When it comes to me (and indeed the whole universe) God is all-knowing. That boggles my mind because I don't know myself the way that he does.
Today he reminded me of the Angelina Jolie movie 'Salt' that I watched recently. In this movie, children are groomed to become spies and murderers for Russia. They are taught, day after day. They are told what grades they will get, which schools they will go to, what they will study and where they will work. They are positioned with care and no amount of time is too much to ensure that they will do their job when the time comes. Later as adults, they take their place and do their thing for Russia. God said that this is exactly what happens to humans before they are birthed into this earth.
Psalm 139:13-17 reads as follows:
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
These verses speak of the time before one comes to the earth. It says that God created my innermost being before forming my outer body in my mothers womb. This innermost being is the spirit and the soul of man. These he made before he even joined the ovum and sperm that later became you. Then David praises God saying that he is fearfully and wonderfully made. This means that the makeup of man is awe inspiring! Not just his physical body but his spirit and his soul. Your soul is your intellect, your will, your emotions. It is the seat of knowledge and wisdom. Your spirit is the part of you that is like God. That is why the Bible says that we are made in the image and likeness of God. That is your spirit. It is the place where God resides within you. In John 14 Jesus said that He, the Holy Spirit and the Father would come and live in man. This is where they live inside of you.
Before you came to the earth God gave you instructions, just like the young Evelyn Salt was directed in the movie. He told you who you were, he told you where you would study and what. He explained to you where you would work in the future and how you would be positioned to accomplish your destiny. God explained your destiny to you so that when you came to earth, you could connect in the Spirit realm with his Spirit who would remind you all these things step by step. That is why you can be in college and feel that the major you have taken up is wrong for you. Or why you can be at a job and even though you are excelling it feels wrong. All these things were told to you and then they were written in a book with your name on it that God keeps.
In the book of Revelation John talks about the day of judgment. Daniel does too. They talk about the thrones being brought out, court is in session and "the books were opened." This book. Your book. Will be among those books that will be opened. God will go through the book that had your assignment in it and judge you based on that assignment. This creates an urgency in my spirit to know what the book says about me at this time. What should I be doing? Where should I be working? Should I be working on my Masters or not? Is that in the book for this season I am in? Every single day ordained for me was written before the ovum and sperm even joined together to begin forming my physical body.
In the movie "Salt" Angelina Jolie (AKA Evelyn Salt) falls in love and marries which was absolutely not in the plan. When the time comes to fulfill her destiny she fouls up the plan. She gets caught up in all this other things and fails to perform. These distractions are what I like to think of as "noise." When you are listening to the radio you have to tune into the right wavelength in order to catch the signal clearly. If you are on the wrong frequency you may hear a word here and there, but there is a lot of noise interfering with the signal. Until you get to the right wavelength, you will not be able to clearly hear what the announcer/presenter is saying.
As one sent from above you have to tune in to heavens wavelength in order to eliminate noise and hear clearly the instructions relayed to you by your base commander, the Holy Ghost. If you are not on this wavelength you will be distracted by the things you see and hear on the earth. You will experience fog and confusion because you cannot see clearly for all the things that are in front of you. In order to avoid clouding and confusion, you must be able to interpret everything you see and hear on the basis of your destiny. Basically, you must keep asking yourself the question "Is this in the original plan of God for my life?" If not, you must walk away from it however good it may look.
Everything in your life must be held up against the mirror of the book of your life. It must pass through the sieve of your destiny. If it is not in alignment with the plan of God for your life, the plan in the book by which you will be judged, you need to walk away from it. It is only noise and will cloud your ability to hear clearly. The promise of God is Isaiah 30:21 "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." That voice is constantly speaking. Constantly telling you the way to the accomplishment of your destiny and it is the voice of the Spirit of the Most High God, your counselor. If you are not hearing his voice, you need to tune in to heavens frequency and eliminate any noise in your life.
One thing you need to understand is that when God sent you to earth having given you your assignment he was confident that you could accomplish it. He put everything in you that you needed for your destiny. Not only that, but he was confident of your obedience too. God never put you on earth thinking to himself "Cross my fingers and hope for the best!" Philemon 1:21 speaks of Paul's confidence in those to whom he was writing:
"Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask."
This is God's attitude towards you. When he sends his word to you he does so confident of your obedience knowing that you will go the extra mile for him. God has so much confidence in mankind. In spite of all our faults God still looks at us and says we are the people for the job. He sent his own son, as a man, to show us that it can be done. Like him, we too can fulfill our destinies and accomplish that for which God called us. Like him, when our final hour comes we shall be able to say "It is finished" and release our spirits back to the one who created us victorious. We shall go back empty. Having released all that is within us in the accomplishment of our destinies in God. He is confident that we can do it. He is confident of our obedience. We shall not let him down!!
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