How Low can you go: Genesis 2:7-

Lucifer whom a few theology scholars erroneous dub as an angel who turned evil, was not an angel but a spiritual being whose character was an embodiment of purity and excellence. On the very account of God’s favor and blessings over his life, against his pure and excellent character, Lucifer was given an honorary privilege by God t operate and serve God within the ranks of angels, Even though he was not an angel originally, At this junction, its pivotal to notice, that when God’s favor and blessings are prevalent in the life of any human entity, there’s nothing that can never be accomplished by the human entity. However if that entity is not careful enough it can lose all its accomplishments achieved by and in the favor and the blessings of God over its life once it begins t think that all its accomplishments are a result of its excellent and brilliant character.

Lucifer lost the favor and the blessings of God on his life because he failed to show reverence for God at a time and in a season in God when reverencing God required all the ranks of angels to go low as far as showing respect and honor towards the express image of God Almighty-formed out of the earth-the lowest element of creation.

All the angels who went down low in respect and in honor of the express image of God were raised in rank but for Lucifer who refused to respect and honor man –the express image of God Almighty formed out of the earth-he was demoted in rank and he was given a disgraceful rank entitled the Devil whose only rightful sense of belonging is in hell. One of the divine secrets applied by God in his sole effort to promote an individual’s lifestyle from one rank to another rank far beyond that particular individual’s imagination is by compelling that individual to go so far low as away of showing reverence for God. And then when He lifts that individual up, He lifted him on a level beyond imagination, a level whose background, ties and connections can’t help him to achieve and accomplish.

Many a times we have heard Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mase-the former president of Morehouse College saying, “There is a crown on top of everyone’s head but they only need to grow tall enough to wear it.” However what we have not heard from Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mase is how we grow tall to wear this crown on top of our heads. A crown that is seemingly invisible.

The only way to grow tall and to be able to wear this crown is by prostrating with humility and submission before the crown –giver (God), at a time and in a moment of his divine instruction.

Sometimes, God’s divine instruction over your life shall take you places many can’t go because these places are unlikeable and full of despise but none the less if you wiling to do whatever it takes to wear the crown on top of your head-a crown of Honor, Victory, and Glory you will go down low hoping that God who humbles the meek shall eventually exalts you in his due time and season, and when he exalts you, you will be operating and functioning on a level high above your own imagination and above your contemporaries and then who despised you in the days when you took-up the oath to humble and submit yourself before and unto God.

Lucifer lost his Rank and his wonderfully privileged place to be in the presence and in the sight of God, simply because of his despise towards mankind. In  this very regard, let me remind everyone of you that is being despised in life by friends, family, and even strangers because of the way life has brought you down-low in your effort to live for God. You are about to be raised up by the God whom you live for because his hand has not shortened either failed to lift-up. But it was only waiting to see whether you will endure being despised and not give-up.

And now that you have well endured, get ready to do better than everyone who despised you. God can’t be dares because He only is able to do all things. But if the people who looked down on you dared him by despising you then you are about to surpass all of them in rank.

They may have the finest elements in life, just like Lucifer held the finest of characters but his character would not sustain him in the presence of God upon losing the favor and blessings of God. But you on the other hand, have got the favor and the blessings of God functioning in your life-able to lift you up above rest and sustain you as well. In the famous Ganda culture of Eastern Africa, a culture whose background states that it originated from a group of people who believed in creating and forging brotherly ties and connections underpinned with blood and coffee covenants.

As a way of preserving their own lives-A practice which culminated into a sense of great pride and self-awareness within a culture whose growth and development was enhanced by the same believe system. As already noted, this culture is one of great pride, men and women take great pride in their own self-awareness to the extent that they never allow themselves to associate with anything of a low and a humble status and a background. However the lowest a Ganda-man can ever allow himself to go is when is prostrating with his face downward in the presence of his great king”the Kabaka” .He goes so low as to show reverence for his king and he stays flat on the ground until his king gives word for him to rise-up. How low can you go in your show of reverence to God Almighty the Lord of Lords and the king of Kings? John the Baptist went as low as living in the wilderness as he was instructed of the spirit of God.

They were no grocery stores in the wilderness so he feed on wild honey and locusts. And because of his reverence for God, Jesus the son of God relates and describes him as the greatest of all prophets ever to be born of a woman and to likewise walk across the face of the earth. It sounds ironic because once you examine you the Baptist’s life, you will find that he lived a low-life more than all the entire prophets prior his being. Elijah went on as far as waiting upon a raven for his bread and to drink by a stream. There is a generation I know called and chosen of God and the level of the fear of God Almighty imbued upon them by the spirit of God has caused them to go so low that their families can no longer relate with them due to their different state of mind frame.

They have gone so low to the extent of living in the wilderness separation from the public eye and opinion. Not of themselves but by the spirit of God Almighty. Some of them have been called insane and invalid, they have been despised, abused and treated inferior, but gladly the script is being flipped as this same generation begins its era to reign in the Glory, Honor, and the victory of their God. The God who deserves all human reverence, they will reign and their reign in God shall be the greatest on the face of the earth, a reign never seen of before in the annals of time, History and eternity.

You Will Shine Again: Ruth 1:22, 2:3

Naomi which originally and traditionally in its Hebraic contextual sense is a name which literally translates to mean “The Pursuit of a Beautiful Life”. A name whose beholder finds herself being born in an Hebraic age where names are still given in-line to one’s innate and prophetic calling , vocation, assignment, destiny, and purpose. Henceforth because of the innate and prophetic mandate upon her life Naomi moves from the place of her birth to an estranged place where she knew no and had no relatives lest any friends presently and back in the days, all because of the urge, passion, and the enthusiasm to pursue a “Beautiful Life”.

An urge and a passion as much as an enthusiasm that is not foreign to the present day mentality of young ready-to-get-to-married girls who are willing to do any thing and to hook up with anyone as long as they present before them the prospect of a Beautiful life most especially if it comes with no cost and no strings attached. As soon as Naomi settled into her new place of stay where she was seemingly guaranteed a beautiful life, then was the spanner thrown –into her wheels; eventually turning her pursuit of a beautiful LIFE INTO SOMETHING BITTER.

It turned so bitter that every body with whom she had acquainted herself with during the period within which she was in the pursuit of a Beautiful life walked away from her and even those that were closest to her died because her experience was so bitter for them to survive, to make it in life and to continue living with her.

Naomi’s husband died because he would not survive the bitterness of her life, her children also died of the same. Except for her two daughter-in-law with whom was called Ruth-a Moabite young woman who in the cross-examination of Naomi bitter experience of life conceived a revelation about this Hebrew woman and the mysterious/strange working of her God.

This revelation was that which spoke of Naomi’s restoration and the restoration of everything connected unto her-Naomi was to ne restored from life’s bitterness to  the beauty of life , from being in  the dark to being in the spotlight, the spotlight which would eventually introduce Ruth on the Global Platform and to the rest of eternity.

And that Naomi was to shine with the Lord God’s Glory and everything that was connected to Naomi in her state of bitterness will shine together with Naomi, as long as it lives, and if it died while still connected to Naomi in her bitterness it shall still be recognized on the Global Platform and in the rest of eternity. .upon conceiving this grand revelation, Ruth shared it with Naomi’s other daughter in law and together they held unto Naomi in all her bitter experience of life.

To the extent that casual observers of the trio-Naomi, Ruth, and Orpah- kept on wondering why in the world two beautiful young Moabite woman (Ruth, and Orpah) piggy backed a miserable Hebrew woman dressed swaddling with no sensible means of shelter, surviving on a miserable one meal per day.

  

When they had enough fabulous looks and incredible backgrounds well enough to secure them a sensible lifestyle that weighs-in with their grandiose attributes, however, what the casual observer of the trio did not understand was the magnitude of the conceived divine revelation at work in Ruth’s life and obviously, the received divine conviction at work in Orpah. Both the conceived divine revelation and the received divine conviction were at work because the duo-Ruth and Orpah had firmly held onto what they had conceived and received respectively.

Once you hold unto the word of God spoken over your life it shall work wonders for you. They held on firmly even when Naomi restrained them to go their way, they adamantly refused and begged her to let them stay with her.

The time came for Naomi to leave the Moabite country-where she came to pursue a beautiful pleasant life which life turned bitter: for she heard that God had blessed his people with a goodly harvest-she began the journey back to Bethlehem with both Ruth and Orpah in tow but along the way she stopped , looked back at them and sent them away.”Go back home to your people and to your gods for I neither have sons, nor husbands to offer to you both in Moab and in Bethlehem.

 However contrary to Naomi’s pleas to have the two daughters’ in-law going their way, they insisted on going all the way with Naomi, they moved a day’s distance with her and Naomi insisted they leave her alone. Eventually orpah who had simply received a divine conviction let go of Naomi, going her way back to her people and gods, but Ruth who had conceived a divine revelation concerning Naomi’s restoration and those of whom that were connected to her, nagging-ly insisted to continue following Naomi claiming that she had no where to go and that she will go all the way with Naomi and that Naomi’s people shall become her people…..

see when you hold unto  the revelation of God Almighty it shall bring you into contact with a people that have been blessed by God and it shall draft you into another league of people. A people known as God’s very people…it shall (the revelation of God) turn you God’s glorious kind.

Ruth further goes on to decree “your pain shall become my pain, your struggle shall become my struggle while boldly stating all of this , Ruth understands deep down in the gut of her Moabite spirit that once Naomi becomes successful as she is predestined to be Naomi’s success shall eventually become Ruth’s success.

A success story whose telling and effect shall be a source of inspiration to the entire globe and the rest of eternity. We live in a day and in an age with people whose faces are invisible and names unknown but despite this obscurity; their success is going to be the aspiration of the entire world and the rest of eternity only because they have conceived (a revelation from God) and held unto it despite the hardship.

The hardship, they have to endure for their refusal to let go of the revelation of God, in all their daily efforts and endeavors, Ruth and Naomi were inseparable but once they got to Bethlehem, Ruth went out to the fields to collect some corn among the chaff left behind by the harvest workers. Once Ruth got into the field, the glory of God shone about her and when it shone about her, Boaz the man in –charge of the field noticed her and from that point onwards the blessings of God began to flow in her life.

Yes! the Glory of the God of Divine Revelation(Hidden Secrets) is about to shine heavy on your life and when he shines you will consequently shine to the notification of the blessing that shall tip the scales and turn around the events of your life.

Yes! You shall shine and when you shine the whole population about you will come to realize that even when you were operating below the poverty-line you were carrying the wealth of generations