KEEP THE PLANS OF GOD CONFIDENTIALLY

1. "Where have you been?" Saul's uncle asked him and his servant. "We were looking for the donkeys," Saul replied, "but we couldn't find them. So we went to Samuel to ask him where they were."
2. "Oh? And what did he say?" his uncle asked.
3. "He told us that the donkeys had already been found," Saul replied. BUT SAUL DIDN'T TELL HIS UNCLE WHAT SAMUEL SAID ABOUT THE KINGDOM."
   1 Samuel 10:14-16 (NLT)

• Saul did not tell his uncle that Samuel had anointed him to be King (1 Samuel 10:1,2).

• Keep confidentially what God intended to do in your life that has been made known to YOU.
• Some of God's plans revealed to you are to be kept to yourself until the time appointed: "So the child grew and became strong in spirit, AND WAS IN THE DESERTS TILL THE DAY OF HIS MANIFESTATION TO ISRAEL" (Luke 1:80)

• When Apostle Paul also got to know about the call of God on his life, he kept it to himself until the appropriate time to share it.

1. "But even before I was born, God chose me and called me by His marvelous grace. Then it pleased Him
2. to reveal His Son to [in] me so that I would proclaim the Good News about Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. WHEN THIS HAPPENED I DID NOT RUSH OUT TO CONSULT WITH ANY HUMAN BEING.
3. NOR DID I GO UP TO JERUSALEM TO CONSULT THOSE WHO WERE APOSTLES BEFORE I WAS. Instead, went away into Arabia, and later returned to the city of Damascus."
   Galatians 1:15-17 (NLT)

• Nehemiah in his plan to fulfil the building of the wall of Jerusalem kept the plan given to him secret before he later shared it at the appropriate time.

1. "So I [Nehemiah] came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
2. Then I arose in the night,...I TOLD NO ONE WHAT MY GOD HAD PUT IN MY HEART TO DO AT JERUSALEM....
3. And the officials did not know where I had gone and what I had done, I HAD NOT YET TOLD THE JEWS, THE PRIESTS, THE NOBLES, THE OFFICIALS, OR THE OTHERS WHO DID THE WORK."
   Nehemiah 2:11,12,16 (NKJV)

• It is not everyone who heard about your dreams or visions, what God has put in your heart to do, that would be happy with it: "AND 'A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THOSE OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD.' " (Matthew 10:36).
• Also, IT is not everyone who get to know about what God is set to do in your LIFE would be happy with it.
  YOUR success or progress is a threat to some other people (Exodus 1:8-10).
• To save yourself from unnecessary battles, keep what God has just started in your Life secret till the time of manifestation.
• Do not SHARE an undone testimony!
  WHATEVER testimony that would be shared should be an accomplished one.
  A perfected, DONE, and materialized testimony.

• Joseph already had issues with his siblings, members of his household, which was escalated when he shared his dreams with them—What God has shown him about his future, things GOD intended to do in his Life (Genesis 37:3-11).

• If Joseph had shut his mouth, kept the dreams to himself until the appropriate time, they would not have known what God was planning to do in his LIFE.
• God's plans for your LIFE that you shared before the appropriate time may receive stiff opposition: from those who are stirred up by the devil to stand against it (1 Peter 5:8,9).
  IF you shared the plan of God for your Life that was revealed to you, before the appropriate time, you might suffer unnecessarily.
• Take time to pray about whatever God has purposed to do in your Life.
  INCUBATE, brood over the vision Or dream in prayer until you have a release in your spirit to share it with the necessary PEOPLE.

1. "Then I said to them, "You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste [desolate], and its gates are burned with fire. COME LET US BUILD THE WALL OF JERUSALEM, that we may no longer be a reproach."
2. And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. SO THEY SAID, "LET US RISE UP AND BUILD." THEN THEY SET THEIR HANDS TO THIS GOOD WORK."
   Nehemiah 2:17,18 (NKJV)

• If you have taken the time to incubate the vision with prayers, when you share it with the right people, they would readily buy into it, because God would have gone ahead of you to work on their hearts.
  IN such cases opposition would be lessened or minimal, because God would have taken over.
  NEHEMIAH had taken time to do his homework, the necessary things needed to be done privately before he came out to share the vision with the necessary people.

• Many visions and dreams have been aborted because those who are concerned shared the visions before the appropriate time.

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!