Tag: In His Presence

To successfully accomplish anything worthwhile in life you will need to confront  and conquer certain giants. A ‘giant’ in this context is an overwhelming  opposition or obstacle which you will encounter along the way, and they hardly  disappear on their own.

God’s word offers hope and encouragement for anyone going through a season of hard pressing. Psalm 30:5 says, “weeping may endure for a night, but joy  comes in the morning”. Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “to everything there is a season, a  time for every purpose under heaven”.

Gomer was a harlot; even The Almighty referred to her as such, so she was well  known. Yet, God offered her a candle of light to enable her to begin her journey  of redemption from being a harlot to being a wife and mother.

“My best years are over” “I’m now too old”, “I have wasted my life”. Do any of these words sound like you? Who says you are too old? Too old for  what precisely? Elizabeth, whom the bible described as “well advanced in age,  conceived and bore the fore runner of the saviour of mankind. Sarah…

Michal, David’s wife, had been married to another man before ending up in  David’s house. Perhaps this was the reason why she harboured a grudge in her  heart for David or perhaps it was simply because she was King Saul’s daughter as there was no love lost between her father and David.

The bible describes Abigail as an intelligent, beautiful humble woman. Her  husband Nabal was wealthy, but he was harsh, insensitive, and unwise. When  king David sent his men to him to give them some of his supply, he treated the  men with disdain.

Today’s work, not matter how insignificant it may seem, is not a wasted effort.  Whatever you are doing today is preparing you for tomorrow’s assignment. It is  storing up experience, skills, knowledge, and talents for future use.

Preparation of Circumstances: The last area is the preparation of the  circumstances that will usher you to the place of your assignment. God began  preparing the circumstances needed for David to emerge as king when He rejected King Saul as king over Israel, due to an act of disobedience on his part. 

Preparation of Competence: Your competence will also need to be prepared.  Every assignment requires a particular set of competencies and these need to  be sharpened. Practice is the best way to sharpen a competence.

Before God uses you, He will take you through a period of preparation. The  greater the assignment, the longer and more strenuous the preparation will be. Biblical characters like David, Joseph, Paul and even our Lord Jesus Christ did not  start their ministries immediately.