FAIH CAPSULE: When God promotes you, He will put people into position to dress you and not reject you.

2 Kings 9:1-13

Who do you think is having the final say over your life? If your answer is God by the grace of our Lord Jesus, you need to put your soul at rest knowing that it is well. Ecclesiastes recorded, “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it. God does it that men should fear before Him.”(Ecclesiastes 3:14) Does this answer to your concern? What can you do? What God said to one speaks to all. God said to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I know you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah1:5) Does the word of God make sense to you that it is settled before you were born?Jehu was only a commander in the army of Ahab at the time God elevated him to become the King over Israel. Before his elevation there was no prior announcement was on for him. Your own elevation could be on the way like that of Jehu. It was business as usual when Elisha sent one of the prophets to go and anoint Jehu with oil as the king of Israel. It is written in 2 Kings 9:2, “Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room.” Jehu was made to rise up from among his associates to become the head among his associates. Interestingly, Jehu did not pray for position, he did not campaign, neither did he struggle or take any stand of opposition before the anointing came unexpectedly to lift him up above and beyond his associates. Jehu’s elevation was from God as a result; his associates could not resist nor reject him as the King. When God promotes you, He will put people into position to dress you and not reject you. 2Kings 9: 13 recorded that, “Then each man hastened to take his garment and put it under him on the top of the steps; and they blew trumpets, saying, “Jehu is king!”” At God’s timing, Jehu was dressed and was announced with the blast of trumpets and with a loud announcement of his new position. Are you wondering if you will ever rise above and beyond where you are now? God is a great God and He is still in the business of extending favor, mercy, grace and blessings. Let no man or condition dictate to you or discourage you of what you can become or what you cannot become.

Prayer for today: Ask God, the lifting lifter of man, to lift you up above and beyond from where you have been grounded.