You don’t need to do many things at the same time to achieve your desired results. Just one touch from God, doors will open that you couldn’t open, your health will be restored, and you will receive extraordinary results you never expected. The scripture says that just one touch from the Lord, a man with leprosy was healed. (Luke 5:13)
God has already arranged favour for you, things that you couldn’t make happen. You weren’t next in line. You didn’t have the experience, but out of nowhere, the contract came to you. He has already lined up the right people to help you. You didn’t ask them. You didn’t have to try to win them over.
For reasons you can’t explain, people go out of their way to be good to you. They have been ordained by God to move you into your destiny. You don’t have to worry about how it’s going to work out. God can cause one person to like you, one person to say, “Promote them, give them the position,” and suddenly, you will go to a new level…
You may feel like you are falling behind. You could never accomplish what God put in your heart. Other people discount you and don’t give you credit. Don’t worry, God knows how to make up for lost time. Just one touch of His favour will catapult you into an extraordinary blessing.
God is going to cause you to be seen in a new light. He is going to give you respect, credibility, and influence that is going to make up for the time it looks like you have lost… Those years when you were not being noticed, not seeing breakthroughs, not having much influence, those were proving years!
Those years you were showing God that you could be trusted, where you did the right things while the wrong things were happening, where you were being your best when you weren’t seeing growth, where you were going to work with a good attitude, even though nobody was giving you credit…Those were important years.
Without you being faithful and showing God that you can be trusted, you wouldn’t be ready for what God has in store for your future. You have to be prepared for where God is taking you. You are not falling behind. You are in training, and if it’s taking longer than you thought, it’s because God has something bigger in your future.
Don’t slack off. Don’t get tired of doing the right thing. If you keep passing the test, the scripture says, “Your due season is coming”. That means God is not only going to bring you out, He is going to give you the promotion. Increased, greater than you have ever imagined.
As a teenager, David was out in the shepherd’s fields taking care of his father’s sheep. It was boring. David had big dreams in his heart. He knew he was going to leave his mark but year after year, all he did was feed the sheep, clean up their waste, and make sure that they were protected. It was dirty, smelly, and lonely. Nobody thanked him.
Nobody knew that he killed a lion and a bear to protect those animals. He could have slacked off, and had a bad attitude, “God, it’s not fair. I’m wasting time out here”. Instead, he kept passing the test, doing the right thing when nothing was changing.
One day, the prophet Samuel came to his house to anoint the next king of Israel. He looked at David’s seven older brothers. Some of them were in the military, big, strong, muscular. They looked like a king. Samuel passed by them and eventually came to David, the forgotten one, the one that had been overlooked and discounted… Samuel said, “David is the next king of Israel”. (1Samuel 16:11-13)
I’m sure his brothers and his parents nearly passed out. You mean David the shepherd, the youngest, the smallest? Are you sure? God doesn’t choose the way people choose. People look on the outside. God looks on the heart. God found a man in David he could trust, a man who had proven he had been faithful when things weren’t going his way.
God knew that if He could trust David to take care of sheep, He could trust him to take care of His people, and when God promoted David and brought him out, He made up for all the years it looked like he was losing out in the shepherd’s fields. He went from being a shepherd to being a king.
Nobody voted for him. This wasn’t a democracy. If it were, he wouldn’t have received one vote. He wasn’t on the radar. Nobody in Israel knew who he was. His father didn’t believe in him. His brothers tried to belittle him. But when God is ready to promote you, He doesn’t take a vote. T’S UP TO ONE PERSON!
GOD DOESN’T NEED A VOTE!
God doesn’t check to see who likes you, who is for you, or how popular you are. It’s not a vote. It’s an appointment. It’s up to one person. Not your boss, not your neighbours, not your critics, not your relatives. Promotion doesn’t come from people, it comes from the Lord.
When it’s your time to be promoted, no person can stop you. No challenges, no disappointment, no enemy can stop you. God has the only vote. He has the final say. Now, quit worrying about who is not for you. “Why won’t these people give me credit?
Quit focusing on who is not for you, and start focusing on who is for you. The God almighty, the Creator of the universe, the one who spoke the world into existence is breathing in your direction. He has you in the palm of His hand. His plans for you are for good. God being for you is more than the world being against you.
David’s life was set on a new course by just one person and what’s interesting is that David didn’t have to go after Samuel. Samuel came after David. You don’t have to go after the blessing. Keep honouring God, and the blessing will come to you. The phone call will come to you. The right person, the healing, and the promotion will find you.
We spend too much time trying to make things happen. Then we get frustrated because it’s taking so long. But you can’t make things happen out of God’s timing. You can’t make people like you who are not supposed to like you. You can’t open a door that God has closed. Stay in peace knowing that God will cause the right people to find you.
I read about a young man who was on dialysis. He was in his early 30s. Three days a week, four or five hours a day, he would have to go up to the clinic. You don’t see many people in their 30s having this kind of challenge with their kidneys. He had this problem since childhood.
He wasn’t a candidate for a kidney transplant. He had a great attitude and still went to work every day. The church prayed that God would not only help him fulfil his destiny but that God would make a way for him where there seemed to be no way. For years, doctors had told him that he couldn’t have a kidney transplant…
However, this one doctor took a special interest in him, studied his case, said, “I can see why nobody wants to take the risk, but this is what I specialize in,”. One night, at 1 a.m., he received a phone call from the doctor, saying, “Be at the hospital tomorrow at 6 am, I have gotten a kidney for you… That was the end of his dialysis.
One touch of God’s favour and his whole world changed, one doctor going out of his way to be good to him, and what you are facing may look like it’s never going to change. People have told you, “No, the odds are against you”. Can I tell you, that you are just one touch of God’s favour away from a turnaround?
Pitch your tent in the land of hope. Get up every morning with expectancy, knowing that the Most High God is doing something about your case. If you do this, I decree and declare that God is about to surprise you. He is going to make things happen that you didn’t see coming. Suddenly you will receive healing, breakthroughs, the right people, and the fullness of your destiny, in Jesus’ name.
The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”’!
