SPIRITUAL GROWTH ENHANCERS
REF NO: 009
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger because there was no guest room available for them. Luke 2:6-7
THE GOAT FROM THE STABLE
It doesn't matter your little beginning, you can rise from the stable to hero. Little beginnings don't determine your future. You can rise from grass to grace, from disgrace to glory and from nowhere to somewhere.
The stable life is low. Jesus rose from low life to hero. How you started does not matter. You can also start from low life to hero.
Nazareth was an uncelebrated, forgotten town located in the north of Jerusalem (well beyond Samaria), southwest of the Sea of Galilee, and a very small community. Nazareth was a typical remote village, a ghetto for the underprivileged and low people in Galilee.
Being so small, and not adjacent to major cities, it was the last place one would expect anything interesting to happen. Calling someone a "Nazarene" would have been like referring to them as a "bumpkin," or even a "hillbilly."
Nathaniel's question is more than a little sarcastic. He assumes that Nazareth couldn't produce much of worth, let alone the Promised One. He expressed the common Jewish sentiment in the first century (John 1:46): Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
Nazareth was a place nobody respected in Israel. According to archaeological conclusions, it boasted no more than 150 residents. That was the village Jesus came from. It was the same town He grew up in. It was that same village he emerged as the world's most famous and celebrated hero.
As a growing little boy in La, a town in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. There lived a very funny old man. He was very jovial, easy and fond to be with. He was loved by all the children because naturally he loves kids and is fond of kids.
We used to play with this lovely old man.
Usually, when we see him we'll give him the shout accolade, "Vera, Vera" and he would respond "always happy, the man was supposed to be born in America but unfortunately born in Ghana, not better place, Palmwine Junction".
You can laugh out loud. Palmwine junction is a popular local area in the La township. That is where the man was born and bred and had lived there a lifetime.
NO PLACE FOR THE COMING KING, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD
John 1:1-14 tells us that the universe was His. He created this world and everything in it including the animals and humans in it. Yet, when he was coming to us there was no room available on earth to accommodate Him.
The mankind that He created in His image and coming to save from sin, death and eternal wrath said to him: "We are sorry, there is no place among us here for you to be born and we are too busy with our census and prestigious Jewish festival so you can check up with the animals in that stinking manger. We don't have your time".
THE ANIMALS GAVE HIM THEIR PLACE
Then the coming Saviour and creator of the universe went to the animals to ask of they could allow Him to be born there. Fortunately, the animals said YES to Him.
The coming Saviour had to be born in a manger because there was no place in the inn.
It doesn't matter who says no to you and it doesn't matter who will turn the back at you in your time of pressing need. Your God can even animals to answer your need. You don't have to keep the focus on those who promise and fail you. Stop crying over anyone who disappointed you. When a door closes, another door opens.
Any man or woman who devalued you in a relationship or marriage cannot stop you. God can fix you to a new place where you will be received and valued in high esteem.
The animals had to accommodate Jesus because the people to whom He was coming to save did not make any accommodation for His arrival.
Just like the old man "Vera, Vera", you wish you had the power to choose your origin of birth. You wish you had the power to determine the country to be born in and who should be your biological parents. But listen and listen good: it doesn't matter the condition surrounding your birth. It doesn't matter whether you are born to rich parents or poor parents. The family you were born to cannot stop your destiny.
We are talking about a young couple here, Joseph and his newly virgin wife Mary. About 80 miles from home in Nazareth. In her womb resides the Son of God conceived by the Holy Spirit. Yet, it was the animals that gave their bedroom to welcome His birth.
No condition can stop the grandmaster planning of God for your life. No matter the condition they put you in, God will create new conditions elsewhere that will welcome you and usher you into your proper place of destiny.
Just like the Virgin Mary, you are also heavily pregnant with great ideas conceived by the Holy Spirit. Even if there seems to be no inn for you where you can successfully birth those glorious ideas, the Holy Spirit is making a suitable way for you.
In 2019, 'The Master Mind' (Facebook Page) shares pearls with us: Over 15 years ago Mark Zuckerberg Creator of Facebook, invited five people to his room at Harvard.
Reason? Talk about a business opportunity! Only two went to meet him and accepted the challenge!!! Today both are billionaires!
Dustin Moskovitz with over 6.5 billion and Eduardo Saverin with over $ 3.4 billion.
When a friend talks to you about a business opportunity, listen, open your mind, if he came to you it's because he saw in you something great.
The guy was pregnant with great ideas that will bring good fortune and turn his life around. He thought it a kind gesture to invite his 5 best friends to share this great idea with them so they can assist him to put his ideas to birth. The three other friends despised him and could not make any room for him. They simply did not go. Today Mark is a billionaire together with the two friends that went.
It doesn't matter who opposes, despises and rejects you because they feel there is nothing good left in you. But if you don't give up like Mary and Joseph, the Lord your God will make a room for you so that you can manifest the gift in you.
Don't waste any more time on those who do not want to be identified with your vision, mission and ministry. Their omission cannot stop what you are about to put to birth. The power of God will always create another person who will be more than willing and ready to follow you.
Everybody may not believe in your vision, calling or the gift God has deposited in you.
You shall put to birth that glorious greatness God has endowed you with. Nobody can imprison the power of your imagination. You are born to win, you are born to succeed.
Listen, irrespective of the circumstances surrounding your birth, you are not a biological accident. You are born with particular grace and unique assignment on earth. This is the reason why you are unstoppable. You are unstoppable because God is unstoppable.
Nobody can stop the original plan of God for your life. Joseph and Mary struggled to manifest their precious gift to the world but that did not stop the move from happening life. The Holy Spirit was created away from nowhere and made the impossible possible.
The Holy Spirit is with you also and He is already in operation in your life. He is on the verge of making another way for the arrival of your greatness through the backdoor of the manager. Your miracle is on the way, your breakthrough is coming. Keep pushing for more prayer because the Holy Spirit through Jesus is about to shoot you to the limelight. Perhaps you think the conditions weren't right or favourable for you when you were born.
Remember Jesus had the worse unfavourable condition than you had. His destiny was a crown king of Israel. He was the coming King and coming Messiah. King of kings and Lord of lords.
Earthly kings are born in palaces with great splendour. Their births were announced by heralds followed by a great celebration, feasting, and merrymaking.
But no palace for the King of glory, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Not even room in the Inn. The only place found for them by the animals was the stable.
The innkeeper allowed them the use of the stable. It was an inconvenient scene - the animals had to be disturbed, but Joseph and Mary graciously accepted the condition because they know it's only temporal and they're carrying the greatest seed of the world who will give light to the whole world. You are not disturbed in an uncomfortable condition when you know your God and the seed you are carrying.
Let us hear the conclusion of the matter, no condition is permanent and there is no condition without a solution.
Jesus fulfilled His earthly mission and none of the children that were received in the prestigious inns to be born outshined the glorious destiny of Jesus. Jesus became the (GOAT) Greatest Of All All Time! The most precious child ever. The greatest man that ever lived on earth and there hasn't been any other greater than Him after him till date.
This means that you are the GOAT of your generation and the GOAT of your family who is born to shine and regardless of the current condition you are still the favoured person to shine from your country and the tribe you are coming from. You may be the GOAT of your family but living life like that of the stable. Cheers! You are highly favoured! The circumstances around you will soon change and the GOAT in you will manifest live!
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father". John 14:12
The GOAT in the Stable says you shall do greater things than He did. Jesus is the GOAT from the stable.
Are you ready to avail yourself of the manifestation power? You are the next in line to continue from where the real GOAT left. Jesus, the Greatest Of All Times!
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