READ:
MATTHEW 2:12-15
God is
the greatest planner. In His custom-made plan for your life, He has alloted
time for every event that will take place. According to Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,
there is a time for your birth as well as for your death. This is why I know
that I shall not die before my time is up. In that plan, among other things,
God has determined when you should lie low as well as when you should stand
out. If you draw near to Him enough, obey Him and worship Him adequately, He
will always guide you on what is next in His plan for you. This year the Lord
will guide you specifically and order your steps into greatness.
In 1 Kings 18:1-2, after a three-year period of silence, God asked Elijah to go and show himself to king Ahab. Why did Elijah have to go into hiding? Was it because God could not protect him? No. There is a time to hide and a time to be exposed. Usually, before God exposes His servants, He would first lead them into a wilderness experience or a period of silence like John the Baptist (Luke 1:80). When God asks you to lie low, it is because He wants something He has planned to come to pass which your presence may interfere with.
In a dream, God warned the wise men not to return to Herod. Then He asked Joseph to escape with Jesus into Egypt. Does this mean God cannot protect His son? No. But because He had planned for Jesus to grow up in Egypt. After the death of Herod when Joseph was asked to return, he was led to stop over at Nazareth for a few years before returning to Bethlehem. Why? It was because God planned that He would be a Nazarene. Today, we call Him Jesus of Nazareth. Do you know that nothing happens to God’s children by mistake?
As long as you are in God’s perfect will, whatever happens to you is in accordance with His plan for your life. Jesus allowed Himself to be killed. For three days, He laid low. Just when the enemies were beginning to celebrate His death, God suddenly showed up and they received their greatest disgrace. There is a time to hide. A Christian who is exposed when he should be hidden, would be a victim of satanic forces. Have you been lying low? Have you been in hidding? Your moment of glory has come. Your time of victory, prosperity, frutifulness has come and there is nothing Satan can do about it. Arise and possess your victory.
In 1 Kings 18:1-2, after a three-year period of silence, God asked Elijah to go and show himself to king Ahab. Why did Elijah have to go into hiding? Was it because God could not protect him? No. There is a time to hide and a time to be exposed. Usually, before God exposes His servants, He would first lead them into a wilderness experience or a period of silence like John the Baptist (Luke 1:80). When God asks you to lie low, it is because He wants something He has planned to come to pass which your presence may interfere with.
In a dream, God warned the wise men not to return to Herod. Then He asked Joseph to escape with Jesus into Egypt. Does this mean God cannot protect His son? No. But because He had planned for Jesus to grow up in Egypt. After the death of Herod when Joseph was asked to return, he was led to stop over at Nazareth for a few years before returning to Bethlehem. Why? It was because God planned that He would be a Nazarene. Today, we call Him Jesus of Nazareth. Do you know that nothing happens to God’s children by mistake?
As long as you are in God’s perfect will, whatever happens to you is in accordance with His plan for your life. Jesus allowed Himself to be killed. For three days, He laid low. Just when the enemies were beginning to celebrate His death, God suddenly showed up and they received their greatest disgrace. There is a time to hide. A Christian who is exposed when he should be hidden, would be a victim of satanic forces. Have you been lying low? Have you been in hidding? Your moment of glory has come. Your time of victory, prosperity, frutifulness has come and there is nothing Satan can do about it. Arise and possess your victory.
MEMORIZE: PROVERBS 2:8 –He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the
way of His saints.
