Travails and Triumphs of Great Destinies (2)

II. If Your Destiny is Great, It Will Attract Delays

Welcome to part two of this article. The reason you will experience delay in the fulfillment of your destiny is that satan and his cohorts and enemies of progress will mount a lot of frustrations aimed at truncating your destiny.

However, you need to understand that delays are not denials. Many Bible heroes and heroines like Abraham, Isaac, Hannah, Sarah, Jabez, Job, etc experienced excruciating delays, but they triumphed in the end.

Every destiny has its timing. In our own eyes, we may think time is running out. We may feel we ought to succeed at our own timing. We fail to realize that God’s timing supersedes ours.

Whichever way we look at it, the fact is, God’s timing is perfect. He knows why He has to allow satan to delay your destiny. If there are things we ought to learn before we get to where God wants us to be, then, our destiny would not be fulfilled until we undergo this learning process.

Again, in God’s infinite wisdom, he may allow satan to delay your destiny to help you avoid danger or problem that may cut shot your destiny. THE GOD WHO KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING KNOWS THE BEST TIME TO BRING YOUR DESTINY TO REALITY.

There is this cliché: “God’s time is the best.” We have heard it times without number, but in our hour of travails, we fail to rely on the wisdom contained in the cliché. No timing can be as perfect as God’s timing.

We may think we know it all. We may think the best time to fulfill our destiny is now. But the Omniscient God may decide that now is not the best time for the fulfillment of your destiny.

When we can’t get what we want at the time we want it, we usually get sad, but when we look at things from the perspective of God’s timing, we will realize that it amounts to folly to question God’s timing.

Many a time, we tenaciously hold unto the belief that satan has delayed our destiny. The fact is, God may permit satan to do some things, but the fact that God may permit satan to do some things doesn’t mean that the devil has as much power as God’s.

We have a lot to learn from the story of Job in the Bible. Although God permitted satan to cause havoc to Job, God turned around Job’s situation for the best.

In times of travail, we most times focus on what satan and enemies of progress are doing. By so doing, we lose sight of what God is doing on our behalf.

Satan and enemies of progress cannot delay our destiny beyond God’s timing. IF WE REALLY GIVE GOD A PLACE IN OUR LIFE, WE SHOULD NOT BE MINDFUL OF THE DELAY IN THE FULFILMENT OF OUR DESTINY, BECAUSE AT GOD’S BEST TIME, HE WILL BRING OUR DESTINY TO FULFILMENT.

Do you know that delay is God’s strategy for our triumph? It takes time for God to train and equip you with skills and strategy for your triumph. The Psalmist says: “He teacheth my hands to war.” God has to train and prepare you for war against oppositions and enemies of progress that are standing on your way to success.

The training and preparation includes, but not limited to, prayer and Bible study. As you pray and study the one and only Book of Success, the Bible, God teaches and prepares you for your great destiny. IN TIMES OF TRAVAIL, YOU SHOULD GROW SPIRITUALLY BY PRAYING CONSTANTLY AND STUDYING GOD’S WORD.

Growth strengthens and equips you for your triumph over travails. IF YOUR DESTINY IS GOD-ORDAINED, DELAY WOULD NOT BE DENIAL. You don’t have to worry unnecessarily over your destiny, because God has His appointed time for its fulfillment. No Jupiter can delay your destiny beyond God’s appointed time.

If you have not succeeded yet, it means God’s appointed time for you to succeed has not come. Times of delays are times of travails. Such times call for waiting. While you wait for your time, you keep working towards the accomplishment of your destiny.

Never sit down doing nothing under the guise of waiting for God’s appointed time. Find something relevant to do. Get yourself involved in projects that will help draw you closer and closer to your destiny. Every day, keep doing something, however little, to keep you on course.

Waiting actually implies preparation for God’s appointed time. You are not just waiting, you are working and preparing. Waiting is not wasting. Waiting becomes wasting when you fold your arms and refuse to do something to move you closer to your destiny.

If you keep working and preparing while you wait for God’s appointed time, you would be getting closer and closer to the actualization of your destiny and soon the delay would become a thing of the past.

Until I come your way soon, keep working and waiting for God’s appointed time; you will emerge victorious at the end of the day!

PS: part three of this article will come your way soon. Watch out for it and make sure you don’t miss it!