Positioning Yourself For The Next Level ( 4)
GOD wants to take us to the Next Level of His plans for us, but we must position ourselves. The word “position” means, “a place where someone or something is located or has been put.” It further means, to stay in a place where God can help us.
Providence, at times, positions us in a location where God will meet with us. Other times, it is the result of a deliberate action. I have just read an article titled, “God Will Use Your Enemy To Take You To The Destination He Planned For You.” A Christian was victimised in the university and later sent to Kebbi State, one of the least developed states. At Dakingari, he met a Nigerian Senator, who supported him to travel to the US to further his studies. Today, he has a Ph. D. in Forensic and Information Technology.
Providence positioned the following people: Peter by the Sea of Tiberas where Jesus met him; Blind Bartimaeus by the street corner in Jericho Peter’s faith in God’s word where Jesus passed; Zacheaus took him to the next level of on top of a tree where Jesus God’s plan for his life. No man saw him; and the man by the can move forward in life pool of Bethsaida where Jesus without faith. Faith connects visited. us with God and elevates us Faith in God positions us for to God’s plan for our lives. the miraculous. All those who Faith aligns us with God’s received miracles from God will; it helps us to obey God. exercised faith to some deFaith helps us to follow God gree. God loves and bles ses wherever He leads us. It is for those who trust Him and His the same reason of faith Abraword. Hebrews 11: 6,7 reads: ham was called the father of “And without faith living nations. He believed in God within us it would be imposand his faith was accounted sible to please God. For we as righteousness. Abraham come to God in faith knowing waited in faith for 25 years bethat he is real and that he refore Isaac was born. By faith, wards the faith of those who he willingly obeyed God to passionately seek him. Faith sacrifice his only son, Isaac. opened Noah’s heart to reCommenting on this, Paul ceive revelation and warnhad this to say, “… In spite of ings from God about what being nearly one hundred was coming, even things that years old when the promis e had never been seen. But he of having a son was made, his stepped out in reverent obefaith was so strong that it dience to God and built an could not be undermined by ark that would save him and the fact that he and Sarah his family...” ( Hebrews11: 6- 7 were incapable of conceiving TPT). a child. He never stopped beOur faith in God connects us lieving God’s promise, for he with God. Peter connected was made strong in his faith with God when he said: “But to father a child. And because Simon answered and said to he was mighty in faith and Him, ‘ Master, we have toiled convinced that God had all all night and caught nothing; the power needed to fulfill his nevertheless at Your word I promises, Abraham glorified will let down the net.’ And God!...” ( Romans 4: 18- 22 TPT). when they had done this, Learn to walk in faith, it will they caught a great number elevate you to the next level. of fish, and their net was breaking,” ( Luke 5: 5- 6 NKJV).