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King's Inspiration: LONG BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
from TT 196
by TIMES TODAY
LONG BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image courtesy: istock
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It’s easy to worry about how things are going to work out tomorrow. “I’m concerned about my health. I have this problem at work.” Uncertainty can bring anxiety and cause us to live stressed and uptight. We look at things in short term.
Long before you were born, He’s been lining up what you need, arranging things to fall into place so you can fulfill your purpose. God told Abraham, “For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and will be enslaved” (Genesis 15:13).
He had a four-hundred-years strategy. We’re planning for tomorrow, believing for this week, hoping for next month, but God was thinking of you hundreds of years ago, working on your behalf. Generations back, He was bringing into alignment - the right people.
It’s already planned out. When the Israelites came out of Egyptian slavery loaded down with treasure, it looked as though God suddenly decided to bless them. The truth is, that blessing had been lined up for four hundred years. God had planned they would go through things that weren’t fair.
But the plan didn’t stop there. The plan was to bring them out to turn around the injustice and to thrust them into their purpose in the Promised Land. Yes, we all go through disappointments and things we don’t understand. We make mistakes.
As with the Israelites, sometimes you have to go through the pain to get to the purpose, through the struggle to get to the abundance, through the weeping to get to the joy. If you remain faithful, you’re going to see what God has been working for generations.
You’re going to come into houses that you didn’t build, vineyards you didn’t plant. You don’t know what God is upto. What looks like a setback is really a setup that’s positioning you for new levels of your destiny. David says, “God, I trust You. My future is in Your hands” (Psalm 31:14-15). Quit worrying about tomorrow. Your future has already been set in God’s hands.
