Your First Victory Can Explain Everything About Your Future Destiny
God comes to inch us along to choose the best. Your one choice
didn’t get you here—it was a series of choices—to measure our seriousness.
Destiny deals not only with what is drawing you, but the various pieces of your
life that God puts into place—that when you arrive at your destination—they all
fit together. All things fit together and work together for good.
It’s a positioner decision that weighs in the balance of time in
our generation to influence something that changes someone’s history or maybe
even ours. It is not a one-time event. It’s a lifetime of events and the sooner
we get the church to accept the challenge, there’s no telling what impact we’ll
have on this generation or your sphere of influence—Yours and the church’s
spiritual growth.
Collectively, God thinks generationally and in terms of kingdom
and He thinks in Divine Purpose and overall strategy. What good is it if God
has power and no plan? The Word states, before the foundation of the world, everything
about you was settled in God’s mind for your destiny. It’s built and
baked in. God is going to work His plan.
Look back over your life. We grieve and cry over the things we
lose in this life when all the time they did not pertain to your destiny. When God is ready
to promote you, He will move you from the background to the foreground like
David.
After Samuel anointed him saying, “Behold your future King!” David didn’t go
and hire a P.R. firm to do TV or direct mail or put up billboards. Stop
promoting yourself and wait! Too many people are involved in false advertising
for themselves portraying something they’re not. “You’re not,” until God says you are.
Let God move things around!
If we don’t know our purpose in Him then we cannot do what God
called us to do! God brought David from obscurity to the forefront by an attack
on an uncircumcised Philistine/Goliath that He couldn’t swallow anymore because
David separated his head from his body. 1 Samuel 18:6,7,8 (KJV) states, “ And it came to pass as they
came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the
women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet David with
tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one
another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his
ten thousands. And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
said, they have ASCRIBED unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed
but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?” “ASCRIBED”
means: Already credited to David, which chalked up his future victories before
they ever happened. Prophetic!
Your first victory can change your direction and your destiny
forever. It is ASCRIBED to your many future victories. It was the way
the victory was won that brought him into prominence. That first victory was
prophetic by pronouncement as to his future victories. When somebody gets ready
to attack you, God is just showing you off: “Have you considered my servant
Job?” We can’t remain neutral when the enemy shows up. We have to resist. David
was not neutral. Samuel told David, “You’re going to be King,” but he didn’t
mean today. When you receive a prophecy, you can’t make it come to pass today.
Remember how the prodigal son got something that was his too soon? “Give
me the portion of goods that belongs unto me.” They were his. (It’s mine!) But
timing is everything.
You can’t handle correctly what you don’t know the value of or its
purpose for your future. What you’re used to winning with is probably how
you’ll defeat the next giant. Now we get to the meat. David, our subject, after
coming home from many victories was not greeted by tambourines, music or
dancing as the first time. There he was with all his friends and Ziklag was on
fire. David was always cool with his friends. Ask yourself, what did God know
and when did He know it? God allowed him to be put in a position of
destruction/stoning. But David encouraged himself in the Lord and called for
the oracles of God. David heard all the songs about him killing his ten
thousands when he had only killed one man and 2 predator animals. He pulled
from those prophetic assertions many times in battles and that surely did come
to pass.
Can you, Saint of God, like David understand what God has ASCRIBED to your life and
ministry? We never have to force it because He said in Isaiah 46:10, “Declaring (His Word) the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times.” Even the things that are not done yet, not yet performed by you,
that are ASCRIBED to you,
saying, “MY council shall stand and I will do MY pleasure?” Today celebrate
what has been ASCRIBED unto
you! Every person you’ve met and prophesied to, preached to, was an ASCRIBED
for in time and place to you even to the persons involved.
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