He Got Me Where He Wants Me

TEXT: Gen 45:1-8, Matt 14:14-21

In our walk with God, we go through exodus in the hope of getting to a destination, that destination is much expected, yet not without going through the wilderness, a desolate place where there is no supply, no help and you’re all alone but right in the wilderness is the blessing yet not everyone in the wilderness comes out with a miracle, the wilderness is often perceived as a place of sufferings, a place of loneliness but instead, it’s a place of separation for those that know and do not know their God.  Knowing God is instrumental to receiving the promise of a land/possession at the end of the wilderness experience, yet God chooses a route which is his own way/will. Our desert must reveal the miraculous which is the end of our sufferings as planned by God.

These experiences are not palatable, soon one would begin to come up with ways to escape this period, giving up, losing faith or simply accepting what is seen as the best that He can offer but the pains we experience, the affliction that is inevitable is nothing compared to the end of our desert season. Our light affliction causes a far more exceeding weight of Glory, this weight of Glory would be ushered in by the affliction we’ve experienced, it’s so heavy that we call our affliction light; your affliction is not strong enough to limit your glory.

How many can see the Glory or the miracle in their desert season? Abraham saw a city in the desert, he was searching for a city in his wilderness experience, ignoring the present sufferings, and he wasn’t carried away by the light affliction. God is raising testifiers that will come out of their wilderness with a miracle but first you have to see miracles in your desert. It might seem it’s because of where you are, but your location has got no say in God’s plan; faith is not denying reality or facts, faith is a consistence focus on God’s ability, Integrity and adequacy. The fact is it’s not convenient to walk through that journey, facing oppositions and distractions from men like the Koran, Dathan and Abiram, waiting for you to give in to the alternative of going back to Egypt because it’s easier. The question is what do they see? Why the complaints about the wilderness years? Complaining is against the law of the wilderness, God took them out of the wilderness experience because they couldn’t see a city, God doesn’t call you out of something to nothing, going back to Egypt is not an option, not an alternative.

There’ll be evening times even in your walk with God, but the exit from the desert is not your concern, do not covert your neighbour’s testimony as God has a strategy plan for your life, there’s a supply in your wilderness, a two fishes, five loaves, a raven, a widow of zarephath but he is waiting for the right time. His strategy is a master plan, he puts the butler in picture to act at the right time, but in our minds we want to act fast, get it done our way. God doesn’t sometimes permit you to be heard because it’s not part of the plan, unexplainably situations show up, the prison, a place of limitation is suddenly the only option for you, but the place of limitation has everything you need for a testimony, your testimony is made reality through the instruments in the plan, your campaign team, advertisers and butler are only found in the prison. Where else would God permit you to experience the miraculous? You might not have all the qualification for that testimony but the wilderness experience is your qualification.

Now you begin to see that what gets you out of the wilderness is not that you’ve suffered enough and it’s time to put an end to it, No! It’s the miracle you need to leave the wilderness. Don’t wait to meet men that you think has the power or strategy to get you out, it’s the least of all you need, focus on the butler as pharaoh will not act until he hears of you. Just like Joseph, Pharaoh and the butler are not in the same place, they don’t play the same part in your life, one of them is your ticket out of the prison, and one of them is the instrument for your blessing. Never fail to be who you are in your wilderness place, bless, break and use what you have, your butler is there watching, the promise is always bigger than your resources, don’t waste your wilderness experience, in it is a testimony. Selah!