KNOW YOUR LOCATION

MEMORY VERSE: and Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took break, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting in on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba and the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said, let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept, Genesis 21:14-16.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1Kgs 1, Gal 5, Ezek 32, Ps 19

The PLAN and PURPOSE of God for our lives is tied to certain LOCATIONS. Because of the FAMINE in the land, Isaac tried to RELOCATE to EGYPT but the Lord WARNED him against the move (Genesis 26:1-3). He remained at GERAR and the Lord PROSPERED him there. Joseph on the other hand wanted to remain in CANAAN with his father, but the Lord MOVED HIM to EGYPT (Genesis 37:28-36). By the time we get to Genesis 41:37-43, the Lord had made him a PRIME MINISTER in EGYPT. The PROMISES of God for your life is tied to a certain LOCATION, until you GET to that LOCATION  those PROMISES might not MATERIALIZE.

God divinely placed Hagar to be Sarah’s handmaid. John 3:27 says a man receives nothing except it be giving by God. It was not a stroke of luck that Hagar got pregnant for Abraham. This young woman did not APPRECIATE where God had put her ( her location) and began to cause problems. She began to teach her son to act rudely towards Sarah and Isaac. The matter got to Abraham and that one sent them packing. Hagar’s LACK OF CHARACTER caused her to be ejected from her location and she paid dearly for it.

There are one or two reasons why you need to KNOW YOUR LOCATION AND REMAIN AT YOUR LOCATION. When your LOCATION changes ; your CHALLENGES changes. When Hagar was with Abraham, she never experienced thirst but the moment she was sent away, she began to experience thirst. When your LOCATION changes the following also changes: your SUPPORT NETWORK changes; your SUPPLY changes; your RATE OF PROGRESS changes; your ACCESS TO RESOURCES  changes; your PROTECTION changes. Because her LOCATION changed, her FRIENDS  changed – the wild animals in the wilderness became her friends. Hagar who used to ride on donkeys and horses began to walk on foot because she did not APPRECIATE WHERE GOD HAD PUT HER.  David said there is but a step between ME and DEATH (1 Samuel 20:3). In other words there is but a step between LIFE and DEATH, and that step could be moving from ONE’S location or REMAINING AT THE WRONG location. There is a PLACE where God has created for you and that is your location. If you are where God wants you to be i.e. your location, you can be rest assured that HE will be there with you.

PRAYER POINT: Father, please show me my location?

 

Bro Samuel – Reaching the world for Jesus. 

YOU AND YOUR LOCATION

MEMORY VERSE: Psalm 1:1 says blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful, Psalm 1:1

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Judg 21, Acts 25, Jer 35, Luke 4

Location play a big role in our life. Whether a man will prosper or not will be determined by his location. If Isaac had disobeyed God and went to Egypt, he would have died as a nobody but because he remained where God told him to be, he prospered and became very prosperous (Genesis 26:11-14). Actually he became so great that a whole nation began to envy him. Whether the promise of God will come to fruition in a life or not will be determined by the individual’s location. If Joseph had remained with his father, he would never have become the prime minister in Egypt but one way or the other the Lord took him to Egypt and that plan came to fruition. In Matthew 2:13-14 the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph and advised him to flee to Egypt because Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus. If Joseph had disobeyed the angel and remained in Bethlehem, Herod would have killed the baby and Jesus would never have been able to die for the world. I pray that God in one way or the other will change your location to where your destiny will be fulfilled in Jesus name, amen.

Your location will determine your harvest. In Mark 4:1- 20 we see the same seed producing varying results. Those that fell by the wayside were eaten by  birds ; those that fell on the mountain produced a bit of result but it did not last long ; those that fell on good soil brought forth a good harvest. We also noticed that even those that fell on good soil brought forth different returns. Some brought forth returns in thirty; some sixty and others hundred fold.

Your location will determine whether you will have faith or not. The good book says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God(Romans 10;17). If you are in an area where all they talk about is negative things, your faith will not grow.  But if you are in a place where the undiluted word of God is preached, where people talk about possibilities, your faith will soar. Ultimately your location will determine how you finish your race on earth. Psalm 1:1 says blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful.  Lot lost all as a result of his location. He came into Sodom and Gomorrah with a lot of servants, sheep, cattles, gold and his family but he left with only his daughters. At the end Lot died a frustrated man because his location corrupted the life of his children. Despite the fact that the girls were virgins, what they saw and heard corrupted their mind .At the end these two girls conceived and hatched a plan to get their dad drunk and lay with him carnally.

PRAYER POINT: Father ,please open my eyes to the location you want me to be.

JUBILEE RELOCATES

Saturday 18 August                                              Bible in one year: 2 Kings 15-17
Memorise: so we say that they could no enter in because of unbelief. Hebrew 3:19
Read:11:39-45
God can restore your lost dreams and destiny when your Jubilee comes. Jubilee is also a time of relocation.The one in bondage is free to go back to his family,another location,a new position , etc. When the day of Jubilee came for Moses ,God moved him from the backside of the desert and placed him at the centre of history.He went from where nothing was happening to where history was being made.Are you where nothing is happening presently? The Lord will soon relocate you to where your contributions would be most valued. Another person who was relocated during Jubilee was Joseph. He was in prison for doing nothing wrong and seem to have forgotten by those he thought could help him. Yet, in Genesis 41:37-46 , when his day of jubilee dawned , God relocated him from prison to throne. Before you were born God had a place you will fit into like a jigsaw puzzle. That place is designed with you in mind. On the day of your Jubilee the Lord will move you form where you are into that position of His entire plan. He has promised that you shall be the head and the tail. That will be your portion this season in Jesus name. What of Lazarus? people ,including his sisters protested that the stench  from his body would drive everyone away. This meant , it was better Lazarus was left dead and buried. But because his day of Jubilee had dawned unknown to his sisters, the Lord relocated him from the grace and turned him into a celebrity. Have people, including your family members written you off? Have they said nothing good can come out of you? Have your teachers told you that you are so daft that you cannot graduate? Have you become a laughing stock to those around you?Have people been looking down on you  and treading on you all your life? Wait a minute! Something good is about to happen.All those people are about to receive the greatest shock of their lives. God is relocating you right to the top. You are moving to the other side of sorrow.

PRAYER POINT: Father , because my jubilee has come , cause me to walk upon my high places.

Excerpts from Open Heavens by Pastor E. A Adeboye