5/18/23
- Derrick Ssemande: GODS PLACEMENT FOR YOU.
GOD
will always place you somewhere in a position that you have no idea about what
will really happen there and your only task is to trust the “process”.
The
WILL of GOD can never place (lead) you where the GRACE of GOD can not keep you.
In this way you’re with HIM in each and every situation you are going through,
we can confirm this by Mark 1:12 Immediately the [Holy] Spirit [from within]
drove Him out into the wilderness (desert),
Mark
1:13 And He stayed in the wilderness (desert) forty days, being tempted [all
the while] by Satan; and He was with the wild beasts, and the angels ministered
to Him [continually]. You can visit
several version but they all have the term “Immediately” in fact it’s used over
and over in this book of Mark.
I
used the term “PROCESS” because He is the only one over access granted or
access denied, He is the only one over promotions. Our God knows all what we
need and we want, in this case He focuses on what we need not our wants since
we all have a calling (purpose) to fulfill, God will only put you where He
knows that your purpose will happen, that’s the second step He reveals to you
after placing you somewhere. God creates
the place and situation for you before you’re placed there, it can be pleasant
to you or not but it all works out for your own good so that His name is
Glorified through you. We are weaker
vessels meaning we can’t do anything on our own because we are only blood and
flesh. So His mighty name is Praised and Glorified through us for completing
great things in our lives. God crated
Eden before creating Adam, okay!, and when He finally created man He then “planted” a “Garden” in Eden. At
first it was a whole but He specified this by planting a garden in “East of
Eden” where he put man after everything was put there.
Genesis
2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. [I
Cor. 15:45-49.]
Genesis
2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and
there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted). After man was put in the garden the purpose
was also revealed.
Genesis
2:15 And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend
and guard and keep it.
After
He reveals your purpose to you it’ll come with some guidelines as your
“forbidden fruit”, a forbidden fruit can be anything.
Genesis
2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every
tree of the garden;
Genesis
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and
calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely
die.
Adam was given freedom to eat every fruit from
every tree except one, this is a live example, you can be somewhere in a stable
position to do whatever you want but if you’re to succeed with your purpose you
need to have self sacrifice and self denial character just like Joseph and
apostle Paul did. Joseph knew well that
he was given authority over everything in the house except Potiphar’s wife and
he was well grounded with self sacrifice and self denial character.
I
have heard many people complaining about their situation, homes, families,
schools, education levels, towns, jobs, performance, financial status, figures,
society ideas, and many more of which I know you have some personal complaints
too which you have never told no body before and you’re the reason why am
here. I’m going to try going personal
briefly and share some few things about my life maybe you can be blessed with
it.
I
was born from a small village by uneducated parents, I remember giving my
report card to my dear Mom and she flipped it upside down pretending to be
reading through but she actually can’t read or write. My Mom and Dad separated before I was even
born you may wonder how this happened but she left pregnant, I got all this
from my grandma. I struggled with my life from a very young age and I do have
scars all over my body mostly legs, God placed me in schools where our
financial status at home can never afford and He kept me there by His
sufficient Grace and Mercy.
My
name was only used for jokes because I was so thin, too short and this resulted
into many nicknames which were maybe funny to them and I thought life was only
about that. The same person who faced many challenges who could not even afford
to have two meals a day is now organizing charity events under “GREEN CHARITY
CITY”.
Right
now am pursuing my last year in high school and am finishing this very year. I
had planned to stop at senior four (S4) if at all God wished because I didn’t
know that I would really do it. and when I finally got it done I thought that’s
the end of my education journey but something happened in a miraculous manner
and I went back to school for Advanced level and everyone was so surprised,
It’s challenging but true that am the most education person from my family,
hope you don’t pity me.
I
kept on wondering how possible that am back to school and why am I even there
at school but in a couple of months I came to realize why it’s that way and am
well convinced that my purpose was revealed to me and it’s the one of the
reasons why am writing this now.
This
goes to students, I know you have
friends who have joined better schools as you think in terms of structures,
meals, performance, it’s like they are far better than yours do but I want to
tell you that God has reasons why you’re there. There must be some significant
reason why yours is set in such a way, there is nothing like a coincidence or a
mistake in GODS will for your life.
The
same applies to every one of the calibers I mentioned above there for example
family, you might be coming from a disorganized family they a kind of crazy but
yes God is using it to teach you some stuff you’ll never learn from anywhere
else and that’s why Christ was sent to
wilderness for 40 days. Everyone of us has his or her wilderness that
empowers them to their purpose the same way apostle Paul was. Take an example
of the arrows on the bowstring, the more you pull it the more impact that will
be caused, so you’re the arrow just make sure you get ready to make a great
impact in relation to your purpose.
The
only problem with us we fight the places that God puts us in, we fight the
churches He plants us in, we fight everything He does for us and we spend most
of our time worrying just because we are getting old and mostly we listen to
people’s ideas that won’t take us anywhere. They are saying by 20 years you
should be doing this and this.
I
know some parents are demanding you grand kids and others are saying you should
be married by now others you should be engaged by now but trust me it’s okay to
be single up to any age the Lord directs you to
though some societies refer to this as a curse but it is not.
Instead
of listening to peoples thoughts about your life, why don’t you spare that
precious time to seek the Lord’s voice. He is communicating to you but you’re
always busy worrying, He wants to close and open up other doors for the next
level for you but you’re so stuck with the doorknob, why don’t you let go and
let Him take control. You do a lot to
please people but that’s why you were created. Apostle Paul emphasizes this
when he was writing to Timothy.
1
Timothy 5:21 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus
and of the chosen angels that you guard and keep [these rules] without personal
prejudice or favor, doing nothing from partiality.
Some
of us pray so hard and sometimes fast but when you look down your heart are you
really praying for what you need or what you want!?
Let
me tell you this. GODS will is not subjected to us but we are the subjects to
GODS will. The scriptures will not bow down to you but you will bow down to
them.
In
simple terms God will facilitate everything for your purpose not your luxury
lifestyle that you want. And mind you, the devil is not afraid of who you
pretend to be but afraid of who you were created to be so you shouldn’t be too
proud of any level you’re at. This is a good reminder that you should put the
most successful thing in your life be the smallest thing in comparison to the
life God has called you to live. John
the baptism understood this and he was never too proud of who he was despite
the fact that he baptized Christ.
Mark
1:7 And he preached, saying, After me comes He Who is stronger (more powerful
and more valiant) than I, the strap of Whose sandals I am not worthy or fit to
stoop down and unloose.
Mark
1:8 I have baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy
Spirit.
We
can see the same thing about Joseph, he knew well that he was the only one
person who can interpret dreams but he never showed off as most of us do when
we get in some better positions.
Genesis
41:15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one
who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that you can understand a
dream and interpret it.
Genesis
41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, It is not in me; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a
[favorable] answer of peace.
All
great men you’ll ever see you’ll discover that they have no pride in them which
strengthens them to serve well. Look at Daniel. Daniel 2:26 The king said to
Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream
which I have seen and the interpretation of it?
Daniel
2:27 Daniel answered the king, The [mysterious] secret which the king has
demanded neither the wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers can show
the king,
Daniel
2:28 But there is a God in heaven Who reveals secrets, and He has made known to
King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that shall be in the latter days (at the end of
days). Your dream and the visions in your head upon your bed are these:
There
is something you should understand, if you want to stand powerful in your
purpose be ready to serve not to be served. We see Christ himself serving all
His life but He is one strong person with authority that has ever existed on
earth.
This is a question to you, if you have
authority like Jesus Christ did, would you use it to serve or to be served!?
Christ
never used His power to people but for people and he taught the same lesson to
the apostles. Mark 10:42 But Jesus called them to [Him] and said to them, You
know that those who are recognized as governing and are supposed to rule the
Gentiles (the nations) lord it over them [ruling with absolute power, holding
them in subjection], and their great men exercise authority and dominion over
them.
Mark
10:43 But this is not to be so among you; instead, whoever desires to be great
among you must be your servant,
Mark
10:44 And whoever wishes to be most important and first in rank among you must
be slave of all.
Mark
10:45 For even the Son of Man came not to have service rendered to Him, but to
serve, and to give His life as a ransom for (instead of) many.
We
see Jesus himself also avoiding this pride. Mark 10:17 And as He was setting
out on His journey, a man ran up and knelt before Him and asked Him, Teacher,
[You are essentially and perfectly morally] good, what must I do to inherit
eternal life [that is, to partake of eternal salvation in the Messiah's
kingdom]?
Mark
10:18 And Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me [essentially and perfectly
morally] good? There is no one [essentially and perfectly morally] good–except
God alone.
You
may ask your self whether it is possible for you to run away from GODS
placement, yes it’s possible but there is no
peace in such and you’ll be only wasting your time and energy because
you’ll be fighting for your self. In fact you’re walking away from only one
person who has no failures just because His representatives have failures then
you’re walking away from the only “Hope” of your life.
It’s
like a train running off from its railway line, how far can it go and what importance
can result from that!? This happened to Jonah when he ran away from Gods
presence and things worsened to him and others around him. This confirms that
we don’t add anything to people unless we are in our right places.
Jonah
1:1 NOW THE word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
Jonah
1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it, for their
wickedness has come up before Me. [Gen. 10:11, 12.]
Jonah
1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from being in the presence of the
Lord [as His prophet] and went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish
[the most remote of the Phoenician trading places then known]. So he paid the
appointed fare and went down into the ship to go with them to Tarshish from
being in the presence of the Lord [as His servant and minister]. [Gen. 4:16; Job
1:12; 2:7.]
There
should be some level of discipline and obedience if you want to keep in tandem
with Gods placement for your life. Abraham was told to just go but God never
told him where exactly. Genesis 12:1 NOW [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go
for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your
relatives and your father's house, to the land that I will show you. [Heb.
11:8-10.]
Some
of us never wanted to depart from our comfort zones and we think it’s the
perfect place to be but you are surely missing the life God has called you to
live. The amplified version used this word “For your own advantage” meaning
that whatever happens you’re the beneficiary.
Others you’re so stuck with your family and you think you can not be
anything without them but Joseph was abandoned by everyone from his family but
he fed nations for 7 years. Did his family know about all this!? Do you really
think they advised him!?
Do
not fear when people leave you all alone because you are not really alone.
Abraham had to separate with Lot for the next blessing or move. God reveals
something to Abraham after Lot left.
Genesis
13:8 So Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I beg of you, between you
and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are relatives.
Genesis
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself, I beg of you, from
me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you choose
the right hand, then I will go to the left. Genesis 13:14 The Lord said to
Abram after Lot had left him, Lift up now your eyes and look from the place
where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
Genesis
13:15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity
forever. [Acts 7:5.]
Genesis
13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a
man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be
counted. [Gen. 28:14.]
Genesis
13:17 Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it, for
I will give it to you.
Genesis
13:18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt among the oaks or terebinths
of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.
One
thing about God even in the darkest days He will still be with you. Lot was
still in Sodom but he was rescued before it was burned down. Take a close look
at (22).
Genesis
19:16 But while he lingered, the men seized him and his wife and his two
daughters by the hand, for the Lord was merciful to him; and they brought him
forth and set him outside the city and left him there.
Genesis
19:17 And when they had brought them forth, they said, Escape for your life! Do
not look behind you or stop anywhere in the whole valley; escape to the
mountains [of Moab], lest you be consumed.
Genesis
19:18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not that, my lords!
Genesis
19:19 Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have
magnified your kindness and mercy to me in saving my life; but I cannot escape
to the mountains, lest the evil overtake me, and I die.
Genesis
19:20 See now yonder city; it is near enough to flee to, and it is a little
one. Oh, let me escape to it! Is it not a little one? And my life will be
saved!
Genesis
19:21 And [the angel] said to him, See, I have yielded to your entreaty
concerning this thing also; I will not destroy this city of which you have
spoken.
Genesis
19:22 Make haste and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything until you
arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar [little].
Genesis
19:23 The sun had risen over the earth when Lot entered Zoar.
Genesis
19:24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the
Lord out of the heavens.
I
know your society might be despising you just by your appearance, size, height,
conversation skills, education level, financial status but our God do not care
about any of those. And stop determining your identity by what people talk
about you. The Lord is ready to give you a nice identity that suits you. He can
do a lot just in a moment.
1 Corinthians 1:25 [This is] because the
foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak
thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.
1
Corinthians 1:26 For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of
you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not
many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.
1
Corinthians 1:27 [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world
is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the
strong to shame.
1
Corinthians 1:28 And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world
is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the
things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things
that are,
Apostle
Paul advises us about people and false doctrines. 1 Corinthians 2:2 For I
resolved to know nothing (to be acquainted with nothing, to make a display of
the knowledge of nothing, and to be conscious of nothing) among you except
Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and Him crucified.
1
Corinthians 2:3 And I was in (passed into a state of) weakness and fear (dread)
and great trembling [after I had come] among you.
1
Corinthians 2:4 And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive
(enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the
[Holy] Spirit and power [a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on
me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus
persuading them],
1
Corinthians 2:5 So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human
philosophy), but in the power of God.
1
Corinthians 2:6 Yet when we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature
Christians who are ripe in understanding), we do impart a [higher] wisdom (the
knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden); but it is indeed not a wisdom
of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age,
who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away.
I
have come to realize that the way we define ourselves is not the same way that
God defines us. It’s because we tend to
think that we are on our own and everything is only about us, that’s a perfect
lie. It’s not about you, it’s not about me, it’s not about self, but about God.
The
way Moses saw himself is not the same saw that God saw him. If fact Moses
defines him self a very weak person but God shows him that he’s just enough.
Exodus
3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring
forth My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
Exodus
3:11 And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the
Israelites out of Egypt?
Here
Moses is trying to put all the responsibility on his shoulders and he asks “who
am I!?” We all get this question several
times if something that looks big is placed before us to accomplish it
forgetting that we have a strong spirit that works within us. Exodus 3:16 Go,
gather the elders of Israel together [the mature teachers and tribal leaders],
and say to them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac,
and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen that
which is done to you in Egypt;
Am
one of those people who always try to put up some excuses when it comes for any
given task, Moses also formulated some but still God shows him His supremacy.
Exodus 4:10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not eloquent or a man of
words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow
of speech and have a heavy and awkward tongue.
Exodus
4:11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb,
or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Exodus
4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what
you shall say.
See!
It’s not about Moses’ vocabulary or PhD or what but God is ready to give him
what to say in the exact time when it is need after placing him there. Moses was so scared to an extent of
requesting God to send another person instead of him. Exodus 4:13 And he said,
Oh, my Lord, I pray You, send by the hand of [some other] whom You will [send].
Exodus
4:14 Then the anger of the Lord blazed against Moses; He said, Is there not
Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know he can speak well. Also, he is coming
out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be overjoyed.
Exodus
4:15 You must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with
your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do.
Exodus
4:17 And you shall take this rod in your hand with which you shall work the
signs [that prove I sent you].
Jeremiah
was also a youth just like you and me. He was called to be a prophet to
nations, I don’t know whether you get what that means. It’s not a minor thing.
But the Lord trusts with us greater authority because we are “PETROS”. (A small
living rock) Jeremiah also thought it’s
all about him but the Lord tells him that He will facilitate everything for
him.
Jeremiah
1:4 Then the word of the Lord came to me [Jeremiah], saying,
Jeremiah
1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen
instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart,
consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. [Exod.
33:12; Isa. 49:1, 5; Rom. 8:29.]
Jeremiah
1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am only a youth.
[Exod. 4:10; 6:12, 30; I Kings 3:7.]
Jeremiah
1:7 But the Lord said to me, Say not, I am only a youth; for you shall go to
all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
Jeremiah
1:8 Be not afraid of them [their faces], for I am with you to deliver you, says
the Lord.
Jeremiah
1:9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to
me, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
He
doesn’t promise that it’ll be only a fair game or that it’ll be only enjoyments
only but He tells us that He will always be with us in each and every situation
just like he was with Daniel through all the trials and darkest moments. See what He tells Jeremiah. Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against
you, but they shall not [finally] prevail against you, for I am with you, says
the Lord, to deliver you. This is a
promise to all of us who believe Him.
There
is something in Luke I would like us to look at. This was the perfect day when
these people caught the biggest number of fish in their fishing history but
it’s the day they left everything down and followed Jesus.
Luke
5:4 When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon (Peter), Put out into the
deep [water], and lower your nets for a haul.
Luke
5:5 And Simon (Peter) answered, Master, we toiled all night [exhaustingly] and
caught nothing [in our nets]. But on the ground of Your word, I will lower the
nets [again].
Luke
5:6 And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish; and as
their nets were [at the point of] breaking,
Luke
5:7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and take hold
with them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
Luke
5:8 But when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart
from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Luke
5:9 For he was gripped with bewildering amazement [allied to terror], and all
who were with him, at the haul of fish which they had made;
Luke
5:10 And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners
with Simon (Peter). And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from now on you will
be catching men!
Luke
5:11 And after they had run their boats on shore, they left everything and
joined Him as His disciples and sided with His party and accompanied Him.
That’s
what I mean when I say that “put the most successful thing about your life be
the smallest in comparison to the life God has called you to live”. Because
it’s bigger than you can ever imagine.
There’s
something I always wonder about ABRAHAM. He was totally ready to give up his
son as a sacrifice to God. Abraham spent all his life praying to have a child
and God kept on promising him and since our God is a promise keeper, he gave
him a son.
In
his teen age when a parent can also enjoy his/her children then boom the Lord
requested him an offering. That was for
Abraham, I know you’ve acquired some good education papers, you have a nice
career with a nice repetition and your name sounds great but can you put all
that down and decide to volunteer in a non paying activity if God tells you to
!?
Can
you leave your highly paying job if God wants to put you somewhere !?
Ssemande Derrick.
