GOD CAN TURN YOUR DESERT INTO GALAXY.
We live in the new age of instant. People believe and anticipate that life is always fair. Everything must happen just at a flip of a finger. When it doesn’t occur as quickly as we expect, we become angry, agitated, depressed and discouraged; feel like quitting or throwing in the towel. The virtues of patience and perseverance are not invoked and no longer common place. People in this age do not endure pains and hassles; they want things happen just now or pack it up. No one wants to walk out his/her salvation/blessings but people just want miracles (God’s interventions). Like Apostle Paul, we desire to know God and the power of resurrection but diverge and different in sharing the fellowship of His sufferings or becoming like Him in His death (Phil 3:10). We are poised for the crown but not through the cross. Jesus said, in this world we shall face trials and tribulations but we say they shall not happen to us. We are for signs and wonders, in double, double portion. Indeed, everyone that God used in the scripture passed through a kind of a desert. For example: Joseph passed through the Pit, and then the Prison before reaching the Palace. Daniel went through the pit/den of lions before made the third most powerful man in his kingdom. Moses went through a desert before God turned it into galaxy. We shall examine here his experience of desert and hopefully it will help us in passing through whatever deserts in our Christian race.
While tending the flocks of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Median, he led the flock through the back of the desert and came to Herob, the mountain of God. An Angel of God appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. The scene was so strange, he turned and looked and behold the bush was burning with fire but the bush was not consumed. Moses turned around and walked towards the place the bush was burning to have a closer look at the unusual incident. He wondered why the flame was burning but the bush was not burning (without being consumed). Surprisingly, God called him out of the midst of the burning bush saying, Moses, Moses……Listen to me brethren, God speaks to us in words and events. He may use any incident to call your attention if only you care to listen, turn and look.
It does not matter where you are and how life treats you. It does not matter what height you fell from or how devastated your situation is. When God’s hand is on you, He turns your situation around in a special (uncommon) way. The shepherds by passed the desert because there was nothing to fetch from there – no greens and no water; was extremely dehydrating for both shepherd and sheep. To avoid or minimize the severity climatic condition, Moses took the flocks through the back of the mountain. In all these, God was simply setting his stage. Beyond human expectation, in the mystery only God can do, God turned the despised desert into a galaxy. Do you care who despised you? Do you turn to see what is happening around you, in your house, at your work and Church, on the road or inside you? You care to know, that’s why you turn to look. You will see something surprising, very uncommon, and very unusual……! Bush burning but the bush is not consumed?
Every Christian needs a burning bush experience. The experience is undeniable, dramatic and uncommon. Some ministers are afraid to accept their mantles and pursue their callings. We hide for years under someone who would not discern God’s purpose and calling for our lives. I happened to find myself in a Church where a prophet prophesied to a Pastor in his Church that he knew he wanted to leave and pursue his calling. If he leaves without his release, he would make his life miserable. You can’t be serious!! Moses was sore afraid and said to God, “Who am I to go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel from Egypt? God answered, “This will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you (Exodus 3:11-12). The burning bush was a captivating and undeniable sign to Moses signifying what it points at than what it is. The burning bush experience created a foundation for Moses faith. God allows events into our lives to build platforms of unweavering faith. Someone else’s experience could only be an incentive which is invaluable unless it leads to a burning bush experience – a place where God is so real, so personal and so trilling; undisputable, doubtless and inexcusable. Such experience would definitely change one’s life for better; even when he experiences trials and tribulations, the conviction is so strong that he will not rebel.
The desert was despised, avoided and bypassed by shepherds because it was severe and inhabitable. Some people are despised, ignored, neglected, avoided and looked down on, as a nobody. I announce to you that your day of recognition has come. Your days of performance are insight. This season you will experience something uncommon, unusual and unexplainable. Moses had passed through that spot severally and had never experienced or seen such sight. When you see something extra-ordinary or uncommon, you will be attracted to find out what it is.
.The town Nazareth was once despised because nothing significant ever happened there. It was layback with nothing of recognition. But the Son of great attributes with supernatural abilities emerged from Nazareth. That changed her story. That same God is still in the business of change and perfection. Why do you care about those who despise you? They neither determine your destiny nor hold your future. Even if someone talks down or ridicules you or your family or town, it is only motivations to turn the setbacks into come back. The ridicule and mockery could only provoke God to act in your favor. He or she wants you to cry like Jabez or Jacob to your Creator for He/she has mocked: where is your God? The God who turned sorrow into favor and supplanter into Blessings shall come to your rescue. He turned chaos into cosmos, and filled all the empty places in the universe. That same God remembered Noah and caused the water to rescind. He also turned ordinary water into unusual wine in a wedding gathering in Cana. There is nothing impossible with God. All you need is to follow and trust HIM. That same God can turn your situation around and cause your breakthrough to happen supernaturally.
Whoever believed that towns like Nazareth, Cana, Gad or even Nineveh, etc would be known anywhere in history? However the God that fetches water with a basket to shame those who couldn’t fetch with pots intervenes and situations changed. Jephthah, the son of a prostitute and the father was a Gilead who was despised by his brethren later became a king in the same city he was driven away (Judges 11). The despised man became a desired man; the poor son of a prostitute became a rich King and won great wars. What life’s desert are you going through? Nothing happens to you that have not happened to somebody, somewhere. Just take your eyes off the problems and situations; fasten them on the Lord Jesus Christ. Stand still and do not quit, for your season of wetness shall over take dryness, resulting into divine restoration. God has not finished with you; stay focus and follow His leading; He turns impossibility into possibility.
Reach: Evangelist/Elder Ogbonnaya, Godswill at email: weefreeministries@yahoo.com or P. O. Box 720035, Houston, Texas, 77272; Web: www.weefreeministries.org; Call: 8328813929 (Cell).