Hosea 12:13 “And
by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was
he preserved”.
God
calls and anoints certain individuals for the sake of people’s destinies; for
the preservation of their destinies. It was by a prophet that God brought
Israel out of Egypt, out of slavery, poverty and oppression.
Israel had been in slavery for generations until
God called one person – Moses – and put His word in his mouth and put His power
on his life for the deliverance of a whole nation. Jesus acknowledged that the
power and anointing upon His life was for the sake of the people (Luke 4: 18-19The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord).
When God calls a person and puts His grace upon
the person’s life, it is not for the sake of that particular individual; rather
it is for the profit of all (1
Corinthians 12:7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we
can help each other NLT).
While Saul and his father’s servants were looking for lost donkeys, one of the servants suggested that they should go to Samuel to enquire. That one encounter with the prophet Samuel altered Saul’s life completely (1 Samuel 9: 6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go). When God calls a person, He always backs the person up. Any genuinely called person does not speak his own words. Neither does he do his own thing (1 Kings 17 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 14 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah). A messenger is not the originator of the message. He is carrying someone else’s message but he says it exactly how he is instructed and then the sender is bound to honour his word. God is bound to honour His word spoken through His prophets because He cannot lie.
While Saul and his father’s servants were looking for lost donkeys, one of the servants suggested that they should go to Samuel to enquire. That one encounter with the prophet Samuel altered Saul’s life completely (1 Samuel 9: 6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go). When God calls a person, He always backs the person up. Any genuinely called person does not speak his own words. Neither does he do his own thing (1 Kings 17 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 4 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 5 So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. 14 For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah). A messenger is not the originator of the message. He is carrying someone else’s message but he says it exactly how he is instructed and then the sender is bound to honour his word. God is bound to honour His word spoken through His prophets because He cannot lie.
When one is genuinely called by God, the
person will be sustained by God. The resources that the person will use will
not be dependent on man. No genuinely called person would be a beggar; that is
a misrepresentation of God. Elijah was supernaturally sustained in the famine.
When the brook dried up, he was commanded to move to Zarephath where a widow
had been commanded to feed him there. He was instructed to go to Zarephath for
the sake of the widow (Isaiah 46: 9-11 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none
else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring
the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure 11 Calling
a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it). When you are genuinely called by God,
there will be supernatural confirmation of God’s calling on your life (Numbers
17). God’s calling on a man’s life cannot be bought (John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive
nothing, except it be given him from heaven). God chooses
whom He calls and sometimes the carrier is not perfect and has made mistakes.
The calling of God is a function of mercy (James
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning). God does not look at human parameters
when He calls a person. When Jesus calls you, He calls you into a higher
assignment (Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men).
When you come across someone you sense has been
positioned by God for your sake, how do you get the grace to work for you?
Believe the word of God. Anyone who got a miracle through the ministry of a
prophet in the Bible, did so because they believed in and obeyed whom God had
sent (John 6:28-29 Then
they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? 29 Jesus
answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that
you believe in Him whom He sent; 2 Chronicles 20: 20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness
of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah
and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God,
and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper).
This year, purpose to find out and follow God’s instructions.
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