_Text: 1 Chronicles 12:32 | Luke 22:42-43_
_Preacher: Matthew Garvy Ministries_
Shout it: MY TIME HAS COME!
Listen to me. It is not time. YOUR TIME HAS COME for you to enter the next level. But hear this deep mystery – There must be an EVENT that gives birth to that next level. What is the event?
The time has come for the world to hear you. There should be an event that makes you go out and break through.
There are men that have capacity to look through time and tell you the specific event that will make you become a star. And sometimes, those events are hidden in PAIN. So we pray and escape them, not knowing we are escaping our own announcement!
LISTEN TO THIS – GOD IS AWARE!
Sometimes it’s not that God is not aware of what you are going through. He knows! He sees the tears, He hears the prayer.
But He knows that situation is what will lead you to your breakthrough, so He ALLOWS you to go through it!
You will fight about it, you will pray all night, you will fast 40 days, but the more you pray, the more that condition becomes higher! That means the end of that sorrow is SUCCESS! The end of that pain is PROMOTION!
Look at Jesus in Gethsemane! Jesus prayed that death should pass over Him – “Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me.” Luke 22:42
Did God remove the cup? NO!
The Bible says – “And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.” Luke 22:43
God did not remove the cup, He sent strength to go through the cup!
If it is His will, He will not always remove you from the fire. He will strengthen you to go through the fire, He will promote you in the middle of it, and He will guide you to your throne!
DEEP MYSTERIES OF THE EVENT:
1. WITHOUT SHAME, GRACE CANNOT FIND YOU.
Nobody would have heard about Jabez if there was no circumstance. His mother called him Jabez – “I bore him in sorrow.” His name was shame! But shame drove him to prayer. If Jabez was not ashamed, grace would not have found him.
Mary accepted shame – pregnant without marriage. But that shame birthed a Savior. Your shame is not to kill you, it is the ADDRESS where grace will locate you!
2. WITHOUT THE RACE, THERE WILL BE NO CROWN.
Paul said – “They which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize.” You want the crown but you don’t want the race. God does not crown boys who sit down. He crowns men who ran through pain!
3. DISAPPOINTMENT IS THE ROAD TO APPOINTMENT.
Jephthah was driven away – “You are son of a harlot.” He became a vagabond. But that disappointment led to his appointment as commander! Joseph was disappointed by his brothers. The disappointment that brings you pain is leading you to a greater appointment!
4. SOMEONE MUST FAIL FOR YOU TO TAKE OVER.
Queen Vashti had to fail for Esther to be crowned! If Vashti obeyed, Esther would have died as an ordinary orphan girl. Don’t hate Vashti – thank God for Vashti! Her failure was Esther’s announcement. In every office, in every family – someone must fail for you to rise!
5. MOST OF OUR PROMOTIONS ARE FOUND IN PAINS AND SORROWS.
a) Joseph – The Pit Gave Birth To The Palace. If there was no pit, there would be no palace. His betrayal transported him to Prime Minister!
b) David – The Battle Gave Birth To The Throne. Nobody knew David until Goliath came. God allows a Goliath to announce you!
c) The Three Hebrew Boys – The Fire Gave Birth To Their Fame! Who would know Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego if they didn’t enter the fire and come out? Nebuchadnezzar said – “We saw three, now we see four!” The fire did not burn them, it promoted them! It was not their prayer that announced them, it was the FIRE!
d) Daniel – The Lion’s Den Gave Birth To The Prophet! What makes Daniel great is not prayer in the upper room, but his decision to go inside the lion’s den and come out alive! The same king who signed his death made a decree that all must worship Daniel’s God!
Sometimes the event we pray against is rather the KEY to our success!
6. GOD USES PAIN TO ADVERTISE YOU – MODERN PROOF!
Some years back, there was a woman who sells pure water. She went to withdraw just 60 cedis from the bank where she saved her small money. And she was beaten mercilessly by a police officer on duty.
It was shameful! It was painful! She cried.
But when the news went on the internet, what happened? Companies began to donate to her! Individuals sent her money! Within ONE WEEK, her story changed completely! From pure water seller to a celebrated woman!
I ask you today – If that police officer did not beat her, will she have broken through? NO! Her beating became her announcement!
Another one – The student girl who was shot in the eye in the classroom by her colleague. We all saw the news. It was painful. It was bloody. The whole Ghana cried.
But look at her today! God used that pain to announce her! Ibrahim Mahama, one of the billionaires we have in this country, drove her in his private jet flight to an international hospital! Her life changed! From a classroom to a jet! From pain to promotion!
If she did not go through that pain, who would have known her? Her pain became her platform!
Hear me: Sometimes you have to go through the pain before your family can succeed! If Joseph escaped the pit, his entire family would have died of famine! His pain fed a nation! If you escape that event, there will be no history!
Stop praying “God take away this fire.” Start praying “God, strengthen me to go through this fire!”
Just like the bad beans the woman threw away – after the rain they germinated! Your rain is that painful event. You will still germinate!
10 POWERFUL PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS – SHOUT AFTER ME:
1. My shame is becoming my fame, in the name of Jesus!
2. My disappointment is leading me to my appointment! I will not miss my appointment!
3. Every pit they threw me into is transporting me to my palace!
4. Every Goliath sent to kill me will announce me to my throne!
5. I will not die in the fire – the fire will promote me! I come out as gold!
6. I will not die in the lion’s den – the lion’s mouth is shut, and kings will worship my God because of me!
7. O God, like you sent an angel to strengthen Jesus, send an angel to strengthen me to go through this event!
8. My pain will not kill my family – my pain will save my family like Joseph!
9. Like the pure water seller and the shot student, my painful story will become my announcement – my helpers will locate me this week!
10. MY TIME HAS COME! I enter my next level now! My event has given birth to my history!
*YOUR TIME HAS COME! GO AND MAKE HISTORY!
