Romans 8:28 NKJV
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
Know this; if you are born again, then you have been called by God. The first call of God towards man is the call to salvation. And from the moment you respond to that call, everything begins to work for your good, in order to align you with your purpose. Nothing just happens to you as a child of God; rather everything that happens to you has been planned or programmed by God to serve His purpose in your life. Some things happen in our lives by divine design, and there are those that happen in our lives by both human errors and satanic machinations. They all have been programmed by God to work for your good and His purpose in your life at the end of the day.
You will need to take an analytical look at your past and present and see the hand of God in it all the way. Even when you didn't know God, He was still busy preserving your purpose, which in essence is His purpose for you. A great prophet of God once said to me, "we understand God sometimes in retrospect". If you are the kind of person that does not know how to take a look backwards from time to time, you may find it very hard to see the direction of God in your life. I am not talking about looking backwards to sorrow over your mistakes or bad happenings of the past and become depressed. What I am referring to here is trending the occurrences of your past and present in order to predict the possible future.
To trend is to show a general tendency of a thing or someone's life. That is why you hear statements like "the machine tends to move upwards", or "the man's life tends to move downwards”. Tendencies are always confirmed by trending. It is analyzing the past performances of a person or thing to know its direction and as such, predict the future tendencies. Believe me, if you take a very good look back at the tendencies of your life, you will be greatly informed about your purpose. Joseph looked back at the good, the bad and the ugly of his life and here was his conclusion:
“And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” (Genesis 45:4-8 KJV).
Need I say more? Take a look backwards. Find your purpose and fulfill destiny in Jesus Name.
Assignment
Do exactly what has been prescribed in the message today. Take a good look at your past and trend it.
Prayer
-Lord, please show me things in my past that tells a lot about my future and destiny in Jesus Name.
Nugget
When you trend the occurrences of your past and present, you will be able to predict your possible future.
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