READ: 1 KINGS 19:19-20
God is a great planner. He has a divine time table for all men as well as for all events. Things would never be on course without a divine time table. Do you that God has drawn a time table from every stage of your life? With this divine time table, all things will work together for your good, according to ROMANS 8:28. When you read 1 KINGS 19:19, you will discover that God rose up Elisha when Elijah threw his mantle on him as a farmer’s boy. As soon as Elijah threw his mantle on Elisha, Elisha’s life changed drastically. He became so powerful that his dead bones raised the dead. It was God who chose Elisha and not Elijah who chose him. Before Elisha was born, God had purposed for him to succeed Elijah. In LUKE 5, we meet Peter, a fisherman who failed, even in his profession, but God saw in him somebody whose shadow would, someday, heal the sick. On the day that Jesus met Peter there two boats. One belonged to Peter and the other to other people. Jesus chose the boat belonging to the fellow who was born to be great. From that day onwards, Peter’s life was never the same again. If you read Peter’s epistles you would know that he was not a learned fellow. He once confessed that he found Paul’s letters difficult to understand. The Almighty God, however, grabbed him and decided that his shadow would raise the dead. Before Peter was born God had settled everything. Before you were born, God has settled it that you would be great. Saul de Tarsus was a murderer. Nobody would have thought that he would become great. God arrested him and changed his name to Paul. However, before God finished with him, his handkerchiefs were casting out demons. God had already chosen him from his mother’s womb. You may be a ‘nobody’ but, one of these days, God will shoot you into the limelight. The moment God unveils His time table; your ordinary moments will become supernatural events. God will turn the attention of everyone in your country to you, and you will begin to shine as the stars of the firmament.
MEMORIZE: PSALM 3:6 –I will not be afraid of tens thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
