Day 20 - Godly Promotion #21DaysofPrayer
Healing Rain with Sue Detweiler
English - January 22, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 33.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Fame is empty. It doesn’t satisfy. When God promotes, he doesn’t add any sorrow to it. It’s his hand that lifts us up, but usually there is a process. If we would be immediately promoted the moment that we first heard a word from the Lord, we wouldn’t have the character needed to sustain the great move of the Lord. It’s humility that proceeds honor. Humility paves the way for promotion.
If you are being promoted, it’s not for those you are going to serve. If you are being promoted by God, it’s for the advancing of the kingdom. Promotion by God doesn’t come from the east or the west, north or south. Promotion doesn’t come from striving or working hard. Promotion from the Lord comes by HIS hand. God rewards what we do in secret.
However, there is a fight that takes place as God is promoting you, it’s a fight with the enemy. We struggle not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers.
1 Peter 5: 8-11, "8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen."
To walk with God and honor him, there will be promotions in your life. But don’t look to the right or the left or get jealous of someone else’s field. Look to the things God has called you to do and to be. Be confident as you follow him. He will promote you in due time.