Jeremiah 1:5 states: Before I formed thee in thy mother's womb I predestined or foreknew you and before you were born I separated you, consecrated and appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.
These words of the Lord was spoken to the young but anointed prophet Jeremiah. God spoke these words to the prophet to encourage him in his time of disbelief of his calling. Jeremiah was young, unlearned and he felt that he wasn't ready or worthy to be a prophet to the nations and God spoke these words to empower the prophet to walk in his calling.
For this same purpose, I have been commissioned to help you gain the confidence and authority to walk in your calling in spite of your perceived shortcomings. Let me start by being transparent. I just recently released my new book, "Tears of Deliverance". Prior to the release God showed me how successful the book will be and how He will utilize that success to bring change to this hurting nation. So a few days ago my publisher informed me that I had only sold 6 copies. Immediately my heart dropped, my spirit fell and my mind began to think that maybe because of my struggle with doing the right things I have missed what God had promised or I was unworthy of the success that was promised. I began to think that because of who I was it was making the promised of God invalid.
I walked in this way of thinking for weeks, feeling defeated and depressed. Then finally I heard God speak in my spirit and He told me that I was predestined for greatness. He said that when He called me into salvation and deliverance He foreknew me and that He has called me and equipped me to be who He has called me to be.
See my friend regardless of your flaws your future has already been created. To be predestined means that before you were created your destiny, your purpose and your place in life was created first so that nothing you do after your birth could destroy what you were destined to become. That's why the bible says that ALL things work together for the good for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. See God is not a man that He should lie and neither is He son of man that He shall repent and whatever He said shall come to pass because He is creativity, He is existence, His essence is reality.
So when God called you to be successful, to be a prophet, a minister, a teacher, an author, an artist, a entertainer, a business owner He created the position, the finances, the institutions and etc before He created you. He created these things first because He knew He would create you in such a unique way that you are the only person to occupy that position. Let me back this us with scripture. The bible says in the book of Genesis that AFTER God created the earth, and the oceans and all the animals and living things, He then created man and then gave man dominion over ALL the earth and the living things. See God created man's destiny which is dominion over the earth and all living things before He created man. He created Man in such a unique way that only man has the power and purpose to operate in destiny of dominion.
Another example of this is at the fall of man God went into the future and created the purpose and position of Jesus Christ. He created all the people, places and things that were needed to birth out Jesus into His destiny. He created Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth (John the Baptist's mother) and the inn keeper 3 wise men and King Herod. Because all these people were a key part of Jesus's destiny they all were created before Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb. Jesus was uniquely formed in human flesh to fit in His destiny in such a unique way that He alone was only able to access this position of purpose.
With this revelation we can boldly walk in the power of being pre-destined. The fact that you struggle with sexual sin, homosexuality, drugs, alcohols doesn't mean your future is destroyed, it doesn't mean you are invalidating your destiny. It's the exact opposite. You are becoming purposed and chosen to occupy your position of purpose. Your struggles are systematically teaching you Godly characteristics to occupy your Godly destiny. You can't legally operate in an area unless you have mastered or conquered that area. While Jesus was on earth the bible says that He was tempted in all areas of sin so that through Him we have power over sin and it's temptations. Because he conquered death, hell and the grave He now has power over death, hell and the grave. Your bible says that He went down to hell and ministered to the lost souls and took back the keys to death, hell and the grave giving him authority over each entity.
So your situations as you conquer them you gain access of authority to those situations. See you couldn't minister to a sexually broken person if you have not been sexually broken. You couldn't minister to a drug addict, if you have never been addicted. You couldn't encourage and provide hope for a person struggling with poverty if you have never been broke.
All our struggles are strategically setting us up to operate effectively in our predestined positions. So now I am not concerned about book sales and yes I have my struggles and yes sometimes I defeat temptation and sometimes it defeats me but I never give up, I keep getting back up and I keep allowing my mistakes to mold me into the person that God has predestined me to be.
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