We Shall Fulfill Destiny and NOT Let God Down!

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!!

MIRACULOUS HEALING IN THE SHOWER

Hey!! God has just done me well. For the last 2 months I have been having trouble with my jaw. It felt out of alignment and was making clicking sounds when I chewed until 3 weeks ago when it became worse. It became painful and I could not chew so I went to see the dentist. They did everything they could. They took an x-ray and saw nothing. Then they knocked on my teeth with a steel bar and they were fine so they couldn’t figure out what was up. He thought it was an infection and gave me antibiotics and pain pills for a week. The pain eased up and I felt better but as soon as my dose of meds was over I was back to square one.

This time I resolved to see a GP in the hopes of being referred to a specialist. That is exactly what happened. The specialist hit right at the gland and knew where my pain was. I thought to myself “This one has hit it head on. He must know what he is talking about.” I was put on more meds. Stronger antibiotics, anti-inflammatory pills and more pain meds. As long as I was on the meds I was doing good, but as soon as they were done I was back to square one. I was getting frustrated.

I went back to the doc on Wednesday and he was surprised that the meds had not done what they were supposed to. He of course put me on another regimen this time with a medicament that I would paint on to the site of the glad. It would numb it and I was able to chew and such. This morning after I had posted my blogs and prayed to God about my role as a kingdom financier I went to the shower. I was washing my face when suddenly it felt like someone grabbed my jaws and moved them roughly one way and then the other causing my teeth to grind loudly against each other. There was no pain and I just instantly knew that God had fixed it. My teeth felt aligned and I could clench them, something I have not been able to do for 2 months.

As I was giving God the glory for my healing he said to me “This is a sign to you that you have aligned yourself with heaven just as your jaw has been aligned.” I am so blessed. I am testifying to everyone that God has healed my jaw. What a mighty God we serve!!!

BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS

Having been called to finance the Kingdom of God and mandated to plunder the treasuries of darkness with the help of Almighty God, bringing out the hidden riches in secret places that they may be used for their rightful purpose in Christ; this is a warning in season. There are treasures to be retrieved and used for the Kingdom of God but if I am not wise I will fall into the trap of covetousness. In Luke 12 vs 15 to 21 Jesus addresses the issue.

15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

16And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:

17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Your life is not about the things that you possess. When you die, to whom will they go? Solomon said in the book of Ecclesiastes that he had seen a great evil on the earth. A man, toiling all his life to amass great wealth, only to leave it to those who had no idea of the struggle he had endured and who consequently misused that wealth.

Notice in vs 16 that this man’s ground brought forth plentifully. What do you have that God has not given you? Your hard work would bear thorns and thistles were the Lord to leave you to your own devices. It is Jehovah who blesses the work of your hands so that they bring forth plentifully. If he has called you to finance his Kingdom, he will do so even more abundantly, but like in the wilderness, the Gold is to be used to worship him. You can’t therefore make a golden calf out of it by storing it in all manner of banks thinking that you can now relax and live large for the rest of your life.

The Lord calls this man foolish. Hoarding and coveting is foolish thinking!! Laying up treasures for yourself at the expense of your relationship with God is the height of futility. May you not fall into this trap of the enemy that has brought down many mighty men. Do the will of God with the money he puts into your hand that it may be well with you when your life is required of you and you stand before the judgment seat of God.

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY

The sin of covetousness is rooted in worry and fear that you will not have enough for your own needs. I am in a place where God has demanded two thirds of my salary for the Kingdom. That is way ahead of what I had planned. I have been in a place where I was looking at God and thinking, “This God can’t be serious. How I’m I ever going to accomplish my goals with this kind of giving?” But once again the word of God has proven to be the anchor of my soul. Luke 12:22 - 34

22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

23The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

26If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

27Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

28If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

29And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

31But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Where is your treasure? That is where your heart is. As a Kingdom financier God calls you to a higher plane of saving. A plan that does not fail but yields its return in due season. In these times of unstable and failing economies, the Lord says to put your treasures where nothing can affect them. Where market crashes cannot reach them. Build your treasure first and foremost in heaven by giving.

This passage of scripture starts by saying that we ought not to worry about our own lives, what we shall eat, drink, wear or live among other things. Why, because our Father in heaven knows that we have need of these things and like any other Father, he wants to provide for his own. When you begin to think “What about me?” the sin of covetousness can easily creep in so that you begin to hoard for yourself that which God has put into your hand for distribution. Man is easily deceived because of labor. We tend to think to ourselves “I worked for it; therefore I deserve the lion’s share.” Not so with God. He says “I enabled your success, I gave you life, wisdom, a brain that works, good health, daylight in which to work, food in your belly and so much more. Therefore the lion’s share is mine.” Who can fault him? As a Kingdom financier 10% is the minimum giving standard, not the epitome of it.

God is a Father. All he wants is our trust even when we can’t figure out how it will work. Therefore we must not have any doubts in his ability to meet our needs. He knows that we have need of these things. All we need to do is make mention of them in prayer with thanksgiving and whole hearted trust. His peace will guard our hearts and minds and our needs will be met in time.

It says to seek first the Kingdom of God. First settle the things of the Kingdom. Do what he asks you to do. And all the things you need will be added to you as you go. God is not unjust, neither is he a wicked God. He is watching over his word to perform it in your life. Will you take him at his word? Will you give as he commands you to and trust without a doubtful mind that he will add to you all that you need and more? Jesus concludes this passage by telling his disciples to fear not. The good pleasure of our Father in heaven is to give us the Kingdom and within the Kingdom is all you will ever need to enjoy this life. Banish fear. Banish doubt. Banish mistrust. Abandon yourself to God with a reckless abandonment and watch Jehovah be Jireh to you in a whole new dimension. What a wonderful God we serve.

HOW SHALL HE FIND YOU WHEN HE COMES?

For all you people in the marketplace take heed of the fact that God is a business man. He leaves you in charge of things as chief steward for a while, but he will always check the books of accounts and reconcile what he has put in your hand and what you have done with it. It’s just good business. You must therefore be faithful every day and have a faithfulness that endures. Luke 22:35 - 48

35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

36And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

41Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

43Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

44Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

45But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

46The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47 AND THAT SERVANT, WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S WILL, AND PREPARED NOT HIMSELF, NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, SHALL BE BEATEN WITH MANY STRIPES.

48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

What a revealing passage of scripture. I believe that the Lord has a reward for every Kingdom financier he has appointed. He has put wealth in our hands and allocated us people to take care of and ministries to support. Two kinds of stewards are described in this passage:

The Good Steward
This guy is ever conscious that his Lord will return for an accounting of the books. He is diligent in making sure that those under his care receive their meet in season. He has guarded his loins with the belt of truth and has kept his light burning. When the Lord comes back, he opens the door for him immediately as he has nothing to hide.

The Bad Steward
This guy gets to a point where he thinks his Lord is taking too long to come back and as a result he slacks on his job. He does not give the people under his care their portion as he should and even beats them, making life very difficult for those in his charge. Instead of providing for others as he is mandated, he takes their portion to eat, drink and get drunk. When his Lord comes to check the books of account, he has nothing good to show. He forgot to seek first the Kingdom and sought his own comfort and pleasure first.

The Reward
The Lord of the Estate finally comes back and after reviewing the books decides to pass out reward and punishment. The good steward is sat at a table and the Lord himself meets his every need and serves him. Then he promotes him, making him ruler over all he has. If you are faithful with little you will be made ruler over much.

Then he reviews the books of the bad steward. He is not amused to find them in disarray and knowing what this guy has been doing, he ensures that he is beaten with many stripes. This guy has it worse than the guy who did not have a clue and messed up. He is severely punished because he knew what he should have done, but chose to walk in covetousness and disobedience. The worst part is that he is given his portion among the unbelievers!!! Disobedience and covetousness will lead to eternal damnation. Do not be deceived.

As a kingdom financier you have been appointed over the Lord’s finances. Which category do you fall under? Are you a good steward, giving out portions to those in need as required by the Lord, or have you fallen into the sin of the bad steward? Gird your loins with the truth of God’s word and keep your light burning. Pray with me:

Our Lord who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Father, I repent of how I have handled my stewardship so far. Sometimes thinking that you will not require an accounting and letting what you have put in my hand go to my head. Forgive me. Cleanse away this sin and its consequences with the blood of Jesus Christ and show me how I can make things right. I choose to walk the way of the good steward. And when the time comes to audit the accounts I will be ready for you and for the reward you carry for me. Be blessed by how I live my life and walk out my stewardship. I love you Lord and vow to be faithful to you, with your help, all the days of my life. In Jesus name I pray. Amen!