What Defines Your Future?

Job 22:28 NKJ “You will also declare a thing, and it shall be established…”

In the Old Testament there was an Israelite woman who was about to give birth. She had just heard that the Ark of the Covenant that housed God’s presence had been stolen. She was so upset about it that she named her baby boy Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:21-22), which means “the glory has departed.” Notice what she did; she named her future by what was happening in her present. She could have just as well named her baby “the glory will return,” but she was so focused on the negative, so caught up in where she was at that moment that she defined her future by it. People of God do not ever name your future by your present circumstances. You may be going through some hard times and it  may look like you are stuck in a pot hole and you do not really see how you could ever rise any higher;  even in that situation do not speak defeat over your life (Ephesians 4:29). Instead, name your future: blessed, prosperous, successful, victorious, healthy, whole, strong, talented, creative, wise, productive. Thank God for the good future He has prepared for you. Declare what God’s Word says so that you can move forward in the destiny He has prepared for you!

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