I was watching a movie earlier with my little daughter, about one Fantasia, a girl that won the American Idol competition in 2004. It was a movie based on the true story of how she won the competition. At one point when she was to move to the next level, the final level that would guarantee her a place in Hollywood for the finals, the police at the door blocked her from entering. She was about giving up, in fact she had given up and was going back home when her father telephoned her to go give it one more try.
She went back and one of the guards she had met earlier in the competition who had told her she would win it happened to stroll by. He asked her what was up and she said she couldn’t get into the auditioning room. He took her through another way that his colleagues could not monitor and that is how she got in to the place won the audition and finally won the competition which changed her life and that of her family.
What transformed her destiny forever was the help of an insignificant security personnel.
I remember once when some people were scheming to get me fired from my work as a banker. It was the clerk who carried files up and down the office, who I usually gave weekend money because those guys were so poorly paid in those days that alerted me. I would have been fired for some cooked up excuse, but God ensured that did not happen and I was able to save my career at that time.
There are situations that so delicate to our destinies that if we do not scale them our destiny might be derailed, delayed or even completely destroyed.
But in the nick of time, God will send an insignificant person to touch the situation and make it right before we achieve destruction.
Here are some good examples.
The slave girl who saved Naaman 2 Kings 5:1-4
The raven that fed prophet Elijah 1 kings 17
The ass that spoke to warn the prophet 2 Peter 2:16
The widow with a little flour and oil saved the prophet 1 kings 17:13
A harlot named Rahab Joshua 2:1
Why does God delight in using nobodies as His nobility?
The first reason is found in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 29: "that no flesh should glory in His presence." When we get to heaven, not one of us will be able to say we got there on our own merit. We're saved simply by the grace of God.
The second reason is found in verse 31, "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord." If we operate in our own strength and not God's, we risk taking the glory and credit for ourselves. Scripture tells us that we must be weak and low enough in order for God to use us.
When these people were thrust forward by God, He alone could see the inherent danger lurking behind the situation n he alone could have chosen those who stepped up just in time.
In everyone’s life God has already positioned such people to act as door keepers, those who will open the gate to extended blessings for us. The issue is we do not even know who they are, unless I am sure all of us would have sought out these individuals and seek to use them by ourselves. Of course, what this means is that we are somehow trying to play God in our own lives. That is why God normally would not reveal this kind of person.
Please also note that this kind of individual is not just another helper. No, these are life changing, game changing helpers.
God doesn't take the majority of His workers from the ranks of the wise, mighty or noble. First Corinthians 1:26 says, "For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called."
Continuing in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27, "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen."
Paul says to get His job done, God uses things which are foolish, things which are weak, things which are base, things which are despised.
Pray these prayers below for yourself:
Every doorkeeper of my destiny appear by fire to help me in Jesus' name.
Every Rahab programmed to enable me take over the land of my destiny appear by fire to help me in Jesus' name.
Father, forsake me not, the handiwork of your hands, push me to my destiny in Jesus' name.
Oh Lord, send your raven to nourish my soul and spirit in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Oh Lord, I am weak, send your widows to feed to clothe me spiritually in the name of Jesus.
Tragic accidents, inexplicable illness, marriage breakdown, bereavement, addiction, stillborn babies, suicides - we all experience tragedy in our lives, or the lives of those we know and love. How do we make sense of them? Let's look at the story of the door opener to Naaman’s breakthrough.
There are two remarkable things about that little slave girl we read about in the story of Naaman.
One is that she was sufficiently concerned about the health of her master to speak up, to try and help his situation. You wouldn’t blame her for being glad that her captor, owner, oppressor, is ill; seriously, debilitatingly ill. Perhaps her future would be uncertain if he died, but we don’t detect self-interest in her little speech. This is a child tentatively making a suggestion to her mistress, which frankly could have cost her a beating!
Did she wrestle with whether she should say something?
Did she wonder if they’d listen to a little foreign slave girl?
Did she think she’d get at least a slap for speaking out of turn?
Did she assume she’d be ignored but felt compelled to try anyway?
Or was the situation so desperate and her mistress so distraught that compassion outweighed the fear and she took the risk anyway? We can see God behind her words – the words of a child, but I wonder if she knew that or if her conscience simply prompted her?
The second remarkable thing is that, despite everything, she still had faith in Yahweh and his prophet. God had not prevented her capture or suffering, but she still believed that he was the answer to Naaman’s problems. She still believed in his power, in his faithfulness to heal, in a prophet to work on his behalf, in miracles done in his name. There is no ‘could’ but rather a ‘would’ in her mind. She believes God and his prophet WILL heal her master - even if they didn’t save her.
This little girl is a real inspiration to all of us. She showed concern for those who she had no reason to love, who do not love her, who use her. To quote Jesus she really does ‘love her enemies’. (Matt 5.44). Tough to handle for her but true.
She had lost her family and become someone else's property, but she did not lose her compassion, her empathy or her faith. That's the mark of a door opener. They are usually selfless people despite their circumstances!
OUR NEXT PRAYERS WILL FOLLOW AFTER HER EXAMPLE:
Father, let me contact and receive grace through those who will have compassion for my circumstances in the name of Jesus’ name.
Lord use those I have wronged to bless and help me in Jesus’ name.
Lord make my door opener bold enough to step up to help me in Jesus' name
Lord equip my helper uniquely for my circumstances in Jesus’ name.
Grant my door opener the key that never be stolen in the mighty name of Jesus.
Stay blessed!
