PREPARATION

Without you knowing it, a crisis time can become a destiny moments--moments we were meant for. Everyone has at least one such moment in life and many of us have many more than one. Sometimes we are aware of these moments as they happen, but most of the time it takes years for us to realize what God was doing in the moment.

Each of these destiny moments force us beyond our resources. Each is a test of courage. Our response in the moment is a demonstration of trust in the God who calls us and never leaves us.

Noah heard the voice and took up Ark-building

Job's test was an extended courage test through suffering followed by an impossible double blessing.

Abraham heard the call and followed God into a total new lifestyle in an unfamiliar land.

Jacob finally heard the voice and was reunited with Joseph and blessed Joseph's sons and worshipped.

Moses' parents heard the voice and hid he little infant in a basket.

Moses heard the voice and became God's charismatic spokesman--leading the Hebrews out of slavery.

The people heard the voice and walked through the Red Sea.

The people heard the voice, walked around Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell.

 Rahab heard the voice and hid the spies.

Gideon, Deborah, Samson, David, Samuel, Elijah, isaiah, Daniel, Esther, Nehemiah, and millions more heard he voice and stepped into a destiny moment.

God is still calling his people to destiny moments. We don't always realize these times when we are living them, but in retrospect the Spirit helps us see God's fingerprints hidden inside.

In these moments God's voice proves the invisible. Truth is, faith doesn't need evidence, it is evidence. Our destiny moments give our faith an opportunity to shine and. On occasions we still get to invade the invisible.

INSPIRATION

It was dangerously dark and stormy on August 18, 1899, when the Priscilla ran aground on a reef off the coast of North Carolina.  All aboard began desperately crying into the night hoping someone would hear them. But as the storm raged and the waves steadily ripped the boat apart, they had little hope.

Call it divine destiny, but Rasmus Midgett heard them, he was out that night, on his horse, patrolling the coast line. it was his job. He had seen the debris washing up on the shore and he knew there as a ship in trouble. It was faint but he could hear their frightened cries. Rasmus knew there wasn't much time; he jumped off his horse and ran into the sea, as far as he could, shouting, "One and a time…Jump! And I'll save you!"

On the shattered boat they could just hear the words, "One at a time…Jump!" The voice seemed to be coming up from the ocean. Were they hearing things? Dare they leap out off the boat into the darkness. There wasn't enough time to get a rescue team assembled so he ran out into the sea again yelling at the top of his lungs. "Jump! Now!."

Then what seemed to be unthinkable, one sailor jumped. He trusted the voice and jumped into the darkness. In spite of the crashing sea, Rasmus found the man and together they made it to the shore. Then six more times Rasmus ran out into the sea and each time calling out of a man to sump. And each time he returned with a saved sailor.

That night, without a rescue boat or a team of trained Life Savers, Rasmus saved ten men. Ten men were alive because one man led the way. One man had the courage to let go of the doomed ship, to trust the voice of a savior he could not see, and to jump.

MOTIVATION   

Make a list and check it twice. Name your destiny moments. The times when your faith became evidence of God's fingerprints.

There is no doubt that soon you will be facing some impossible task. Listen for the voice of God. He still speaks in gentle words, asking you to demonstrate your faith and give him a place to work. So jump!

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