While 2018 is our Year of DIVINE SPEED,
JANUARY is Our MONTH of GIRDING our LOINS!!!
Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah [giving him supernatural strength]. He girded up his loins and outran Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel [nearly twenty miles].
1 Kings 18:46 AMP
A major deception in the Body of Christ is that too often, we imagine that when God gives us a Word or Promise or Prophecy, He will automatically bypass both our will and even faith or lack of faith to enforce the Word or the Promise. Well, whereas the Lord in His Sovereignty does graciously perform His Word without our contribution, in a number of situations, He actually accepts our feeble attempts as a gesture of faith. In Genesis 26, for example, all that God did was stop Isaac from running abroad in famine with the promise to bless Abraham’s prince in Gerar. Apparently, Isaac had learned from Daddy Abraham that God multiplies SEED and blesses the WORK of our hands. So, what did he do?
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. [13] And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: [14] For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. Gen 26:12-14 KJV.
Isaac could have said, “Well, Lord, You are the Almighty and there is nothing impossible with You. Besides, You see that humanly speaking, this situation is hopeless. But I believe, Lord. Just go ahead and bless me any which way You want.”
I suppose Isaac most probably would have starved to death and God wouldn’t have ceased to be God.
When God gives a Word or Promise or Prophecy, the least we can do is prepare for it!!!
In 1 Kings 18:46. Although, … the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah [giving him supernatural strength]. (1) He girded up his loins and (2) outran Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel [nearly twenty miles].
1 Kings 18:46 AMP
- He prepared by tidying up anything that could retard his ability to make progress. He girded up his loins Beloved all of this January, gird up your loins: Forgive every offense. Discard every bitterness. Restore every Godly relationship that you had lost. Cut off all ungodly alliances. Discard every sinful or negative or anti-social attitude that easily offends people whom God could have used to make you happen. Watch out for impatience & pride, then uproot both before they rob you of Divine Speed! If TV or Social Media or Sleep or Food are loose garments around your destiny, viciously cut them to size!
- Engage some kind of motion. Don’t sit and fold your hands. The Hand or Anointing or Grace or Power of God is upon you. But like Elijah, except you begin to Run it won’t do you any good. Has this message met you still waiting for God? Please get going with that project and you will see that the hand of the Lord is upon you this 2018 for Divine Speed.
Favored Week in Jesus Name!!!