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He's Preparing The Way!
Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Jan 6, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: If you are willing to seek God to be the source for the direction in your life, He won't let you down. He will keep His promises to you and He takes each one of His promises very seriously!
Because it requires something few are willing to give up, which is self! To be all in or committed to something, someone or a cause. You have to think about, or give more to that than you do yourself.
But when we read of the heroes in the Bible, what we find is exactly that. All the heroes and great men and women of the Bible were all in, with their relationship with God.
The amazing feats that work comp list through all of them, would've never happened unless God went before them and prepared to way and helped them come about.
*God went before them and had the right person be there at the right time, to help meet their need!
*God went before them and made a way so they could pass through safely to their destination!
* God went before them and changed someone else's mind or heart, so they would be well received!
In first Samuel 17, God had already been there and prepared the way of miracle. God was the one who went before David to not only make, but also place the five smooth stones in the brook where David would find them. And place the one that was perfect in dimension and weight to accomplish its destiny, the moment David went all in and declared boldly without hesitation!
45-47 David answered, “You come at me with sword and spear and battle-ax. I come at you in the name of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel’s troops, whom you curse and mock. This very day God is handing you over to me. I’m about to kill you, cut off your head, and serve up your body and the bodies of your Philistine buddies to the crows and coyotes. The whole earth will know that there’s an extraordinary God in Israel. And everyone gathered here will learn that God doesn’t save by means of sword or spear. The battle belongs to God—he’s handing you to us on a platter!”
In the book of Esther, we read of one of the most intriguing and romantic stories ever told. The story of the life of a young Jewish girl, who had lost her parents and had the good fortune to be able to live with her uncle. Who loved her just like she was his own daughter. And miracle after miracle, against insurmountable odds, God made a way!
God prepared the way and opened doors of amazing opportunity for her. Every step to the moment God for her, that would ultimately save an entire nation of people!
Esther chapter 7 MSG
1-2 So the king and Haman went to dinner with Queen Esther. At this second dinner, while they were drinking wine the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what would you like? Half of my kingdom! Just ask and it’s yours.”
3 Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O King, and if it please the king, give me my life, and give my people their lives.
4 “We’ve been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed—sold to be massacred, eliminated. If we had just been sold off into slavery, I wouldn’t even have brought it up; our troubles wouldn’t have been worth bothering the king over.”
