GOD HAS A STRATEGY FOR YOUR LIFE! God has a strategy for your life. We are not our own. For Paul, the Damascus Road experience blinded his natural sight to open up his spiritual sight. God chooses to shut down something to open another in our lives. Paul contributed more to the New Testament than those who had seen the resurrected Jesus with their own eyes. He was impacted outside of the church in a personal encounter with God on the street. You have to have a personal experience with God for yourself. God used Paul strategically for a divine purpose. Today, we see carefully orchestrated, organized churches with meetings, websites, structures. That is not what happens in Acts. Paul was not his own. When Paul wanted to go into certain parts of cities and Asia, the Holy Spirit shut the door and didn’t allow him to go. God had him on a specific course. When your life is on a course, you cannot do what others do. It is because God has ordered your steps on that course. The same God who opens doors also shuts doors. We must be submissive enough to His will to understand that we are to rejoice when the doors open but also when the doors close. God closed doors for Paul to arrive at the right place at the right time for a divine purpose. Some of you have received promises from God, yet everytime you try to act on it, you find God says no. God held Paul back and closed him down. When Paul finally gave up on places that were conducive to his own agenda, that is when he received the vision to go to Macedonia. Some of you are stuck in frustration that everything you have tried to do was shut down. You need to thank God for every time it was shut down, there was a reason. When God shuts the door, it remains closed. It means you are so precious and purposeful to the plan of God that He doesn’t want you to be anywhere in this season of your life where you will not be effective.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:24:43 +0000
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