PUT GOD FIRST
BY TOSIN ADEGOKE
“If what you are doing is not posing challenges at you, you are doing nothing substantial.”
It is no longer a parable that the revelation or understand of God is brought to reality in the mind of many men via the problems of life.
Many right decisions are taken after several pains and sufferings received as a result of wrong decisions. Often times people don’t just turn back to make the right choices without serious bruises all over their heads.
More powerful than the decisions we make is the aftermath or the resultant effects of our actions. Many precious destinies have been silenced and some buried by the strange experiences they had in life, contingent on their unscrutinized decisions. Far beyond your widest imagination is the strength of your conclusion on any matter.
CONFUSE THAT CONFUSION
Confusion is not just a concept that is associated with your life alone, many people experienced this, in fact I have been there before. If you are progressing, expect issues and situations that might throw you off balance and by implication end you up in confusion. Like I opined earlier, if what you are doing is not posing challenges at you, you are doing nothing substantial.
Men who dare great things will understand what am talking about. Common to every gainful journey are certain painful experiences and situations that would appear to challenge your capabilities and stability. This is also prominent when you dare to enter new terrains or levels that you haven’t see before.
When you see a man without challenges or confusing situations in His present arena, help me to whisper to him, it is time to change level. Changing level would require you to be ready to conquer the next devil.
“To enter into that new level you must be ready to conquer the devil up there. “
This kind of decision is good but it can lead to confusion because of the new challenges and confrontation that will appear in the new level.
THE GOD FACTOR
To overcome the devil at every new level, you must be led and empowered by God. Daring certain confrontations without God has landed many in unexpected and dangerous terrains.
Loses and many absurdities have befallen people because they are not fully armed to dare that next level. Beyond personal preparation and capacity building is the need to have God has you leader.
Isaiah 52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
You must see God before you see any man everyday. At the earliest hour of your day seek God’s face, reference Him and ask for His leading before you run out of your house.
Many who run like that don’t see anything at the end of the day. To be productive in life, to see possibilities in all that you do, you need to fellowship constantly with the God of all possibilities.
Matthew 19:26 “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
Don’t abandon that plan or projects because things are not working. Don’t say it is not possible when you haven’t included God. If only you can let God take the lead, you will win and be successful.
NOW MOVE
You are not expected to sit down doing nothing because you have submitted all to God. Haven fulfilled the above principle in engaging your day for maximum productivity or results, you must step out to demonstrate the God’s given inspiration for your conquest in that new level.
Isaiah 45:2-3
> I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
> And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
The verse 2 of the above scriptures revealed that the goings is not just for the Lord. “I will go before thee…” we are to let God lead while we follow.
Our Meeting or fellowshipping with God will enhance clarity of purpose and it will also enable proper understanding of the pathway to our fulfillments. Once we are in alignment with His will, God is ever ready to go before us. Let’s be ready to follow Him.
MY PRAYER
This is my prayer for you this month of miracles and possibilities…
Luke 3:5 “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;”
AMEN
