Title: The Best Kept Secret in Canaan
Preacher: Dr. 'Tunde Bakare
Main texts: Acts 18:15; Acts 2:22-24
“Known to God from eternity are all His works.”— Acts 18:15.
This message is about the by-product of the God’s factor in anybody’s life. There are certain things that will manifest in your life if God is with you in the process of time. Regardless of your circumstance and situation or the magnitude of your problem, you will have to develop an attitude of gratitude—you must give thanks in everything and remain grateful for everything; the good, bad, or ugly, you must learn to give thanks to God. Even though you don’t understand the reason or cause of what you are going through, you have to see your situation from a heavenly perspective. God has kept the best for you. Therefore, this message is a revelation of your access code to unlimited resources.
As agonising as the crucifixion of Jesus was, it was not a by-product of a mob reaction — it was neither a mishap nor spin-off of leadership hostility to His ministry. There are no afterthoughts in God — no misfortune or miscalculations — known to Him from eternity are all His works. Thus nothing happens to you that God does not know about. He either permits it or allows it to happen to you. Everything that happens to you is a by-product of predetermined purpose of God that is rooted in His foreknowledge. You don’t have to inform God about your problems. He had a foreknowledge of them and the upshot! He painstakingly created you for His purpose. Therefore you have to walk and operate in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that the end product of the process you are going through is progress. — Acts 2:22-24; Matthew 10:29-31; Luke 12:6, 7; Psalms 139:1-18, 23, 24.
Having understood that the events that happen to you are prearranged and are part of the foreknowledge of God, your informed attitude towards God’s dealings should be an attitude of gratitude in everything and for everything.— Philippians 4:6, 7; Ephesians 5:16-20. It is also important you understand that the process you are going through is prearranged by God so that He can manifest His power, goodness, and glory through you. God made it so in order to use your life as a witness and representation in the nations.—you are an epistle of Christ written on the canvas of the hearts of the people so that they can learn from what you are going through. Thus your disposition and composition under persecution and pressure speaks volume to people more than anything you can say to them. — 2 Corinthians 3:3; Genesis 45:1-5; Romans 4:13-21.
If you are ever going to go through the process successfully and make the best from a horrible situation, you must have a divine perspective of your situation. There is the need of a divine perspective of what you are going through. Until then, worry, anxiety, and all kinds of sleeplessness will choke you up. Joseph was able to endure his brothers’ deceitfulness and cruelties towards him because he had a divine perspective of the whole situation. Abraham did not waver in faith through unbelief but kept on glorifying God because he understood and believed that God who gives life to the death has the power to give life to his mortal body and quicken the deadness of his wife’s womb. The probability to curse your blessing is guaranteed if you don’t have a divine perspective of your situation. When God speaks to you concerning a matter, never think that you will get there automatically — you will go through process! Joseph did not become the governor of Egypt and a father to Pharaoh overnight — it took thirteen years of process before his dream came into reality according to the workings of God. Nobody knew what had happened to Joseph in Egypt until his brothers came and bowed before him — it was the best secret that was kept in Canaan.
The best of the land belongs to those who allow God to take them through process. The best of the land is for those who have a divine perspective of their situation. It is for those who maintain a heart of gratitude in all things and for everything, being fully convinced that there is an expected end to what they are going through. Regard not your present condition; give no attention to the problem, for God is able to establish you where He has provided for you. Never settle for less but aspire for the best. Don’t pitch your tent with mediocrity — you are serving a God that owns the universe and everything therein, and His plan and purpose for you is to give nothing less but the best. — Genesis 42:6-9.
“Known to God from eternity are all His works.”— Acts 18:15.
This message is about the by-product of the God’s factor in anybody’s life. There are certain things that will manifest in your life if God is with you in the process of time. Regardless of your circumstance and situation or the magnitude of your problem, you will have to develop an attitude of gratitude—you must give thanks in everything and remain grateful for everything; the good, bad, or ugly, you must learn to give thanks to God. Even though you don’t understand the reason or cause of what you are going through, you have to see your situation from a heavenly perspective. God has kept the best for you. Therefore, this message is a revelation of your access code to unlimited resources.
As agonising as the crucifixion of Jesus was, it was not a by-product of a mob reaction — it was neither a mishap nor spin-off of leadership hostility to His ministry. There are no afterthoughts in God — no misfortune or miscalculations — known to Him from eternity are all His works. Thus nothing happens to you that God does not know about. He either permits it or allows it to happen to you. Everything that happens to you is a by-product of predetermined purpose of God that is rooted in His foreknowledge. You don’t have to inform God about your problems. He had a foreknowledge of them and the upshot! He painstakingly created you for His purpose. Therefore you have to walk and operate in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that the end product of the process you are going through is progress. — Acts 2:22-24; Matthew 10:29-31; Luke 12:6, 7; Psalms 139:1-18, 23, 24.
Having understood that the events that happen to you are prearranged and are part of the foreknowledge of God, your informed attitude towards God’s dealings should be an attitude of gratitude in everything and for everything.— Philippians 4:6, 7; Ephesians 5:16-20. It is also important you understand that the process you are going through is prearranged by God so that He can manifest His power, goodness, and glory through you. God made it so in order to use your life as a witness and representation in the nations.—you are an epistle of Christ written on the canvas of the hearts of the people so that they can learn from what you are going through. Thus your disposition and composition under persecution and pressure speaks volume to people more than anything you can say to them. — 2 Corinthians 3:3; Genesis 45:1-5; Romans 4:13-21.
If you are ever going to go through the process successfully and make the best from a horrible situation, you must have a divine perspective of your situation. There is the need of a divine perspective of what you are going through. Until then, worry, anxiety, and all kinds of sleeplessness will choke you up. Joseph was able to endure his brothers’ deceitfulness and cruelties towards him because he had a divine perspective of the whole situation. Abraham did not waver in faith through unbelief but kept on glorifying God because he understood and believed that God who gives life to the death has the power to give life to his mortal body and quicken the deadness of his wife’s womb. The probability to curse your blessing is guaranteed if you don’t have a divine perspective of your situation. When God speaks to you concerning a matter, never think that you will get there automatically — you will go through process! Joseph did not become the governor of Egypt and a father to Pharaoh overnight — it took thirteen years of process before his dream came into reality according to the workings of God. Nobody knew what had happened to Joseph in Egypt until his brothers came and bowed before him — it was the best secret that was kept in Canaan.
The best of the land belongs to those who allow God to take them through process. The best of the land is for those who have a divine perspective of their situation. It is for those who maintain a heart of gratitude in all things and for everything, being fully convinced that there is an expected end to what they are going through. Regard not your present condition; give no attention to the problem, for God is able to establish you where He has provided for you. Never settle for less but aspire for the best. Don’t pitch your tent with mediocrity — you are serving a God that owns the universe and everything therein, and His plan and purpose for you is to give nothing less but the best. — Genesis 42:6-9.
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