10 FOR the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;
11 BUT the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, WHICH DRINKS WATER FROM THE RAIN OF HEAVEN,
12 A LAND FOR WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD CARES; THE EYES OF THE LORD YOUR GOD ARE ALWAYS ON IT, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO THE VERY END OF THE YEAR."
Deuteronomy 11:10–12 (NKJV)
• You can only make it where the eyes of the LORD are.
- If you are in a wrong place doing a wrong thing, fulfilment would be a mirage. Also, If you are in a wrong place doing a right thing, success would still be far-fetched.
- To excel or fulfil in your Christian journey, you have to be at the right place, the appointed place of God; doing the right thing at the right time, and having the right people with you.
- Some people do believe if they are in certain places, they would easily get results or make it in whatever they do: "YOU CAN MAKE MANY PLANS, BUT THE LORD’S PURPOSE WILL PREVAIL" (Proverbs 19:21 NLT). [Also see Proverbs 16:9]
- You can only prosper where God wants you to be!:
13 COME NOW, YOU who say, “TODAY OR TOMORROW WE WILL GO TO SUCH AND SUCH A CITY, SPEND A YEAR THERE, BUY AND SELL, AND MAKE A PROFIT”; 14 WHEREAS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW... " (James 4:13,14 NKJV). - Know your place of assignment and stay there:
17 “NOW it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance 18 AND saw Him [Jesus] saying to ME [Paul], ‘MAKE HASTE AND GET OUT OF JERUSALEM QUICKLY, FOR THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE YOUR TESTIMONY CONCERNING ME.’ 19 SO I said, ‘Lord, they know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believe on You. 20 AND when the blood of Your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by consenting to his death, and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ 21 THEN HE SAID TO ME, ‘DEPART, FOR I WILL SEND YOU FAR FROM HERE TO THE GENTILES’ ” (Acts 22:17-21 NKJV).
READ: Galatians 2:7-9
• Although God is omnipresent, He is everywhere, but He is not everywhere for everyone; He would not be where He has not instructed you to be.
- If you are in a place out of disobedience or self-will, you are on your own!
- God is omnipresent, but He can make Himself absent in a place for the disobedient—someone who resolves to have his or her Way.
- God's presence would not be experienced by such a Believer, or the sign and the evidence that God is in such a place would not be seen by him or her.
- God is interested in every aspect of your life; where you live, work, attend church, and executed the vision given you by Him.
- No vision is fully accomplished without the knowing of the place where the vision is to be carried out or executed.
- There is an appointed place for the vision or the assignment given you by God.
YOU may get the vision right, but missed the location or place where He does want the vision to be executed or carried out. - The Israelites were taken to the land where the eyes of the LORD were watching over—the land He does care for.
• If you are not in the land where the eyes of the LORD are, where He watches over; reproaches, lacks, insufficiencies, and calamities are inevitable (Deuteronomy 11:12).
- Many have left God behind, struggling where His presence is NOT found, thus they have become a ridicule.
POVERTY and lack have been their portions because they are not at the right place which God does want them to be. - God is only at the place where He wanted you to be. You could only find Him where He wanted you to be.
THUS, stay where He does want you to be that you may thrive and fulfil in your assignment. - Your making, your blessing, is in the place where God said to be.
WEALTH and all-round Blessings come as a result of obedience and the covenant relationship with God.
• You life might not be what it ought to be without being where He ordained you to be.
- There is an appointed place for every individual Believer; where a Ministry given by God should be operated, and even where to do the Business you are inspired to do.
- If you are not at the place where He wanted you to be, you may groan and be at the mercy of other people.
- If you misses God, you have missed everything.
• Seek God's face to know where He wants you to live, operate your ministry, or do your business.
- It is equally important to know where He wants you to attend church, the anointing under which He wants you to be.
• You will not miss it in Jesus' name.
Peace!