Power and Purpose: Don't Allow Prison to Stop Your Purpose

ACTS 12:7-9

AND, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM, AND A LIGHT SHINED IN THE PRISON: AND HE SMOTE PETER ON THE SIDE, AND RAISED HIM UP, SAYING, ARISE UP QUICKLY.  AND HIS CHAINS FELL OFF FROM HIS HANDS.  AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO HIM, GIRD THYSELF AND BIND ON THY SANDALS.  AND SO HE DID.  AND HE SAITH UNTO HIM, CAST THY GARMENT ABOUT THEE, AND FOLLOW ME.  AND HE WENT OUT, AND FOLLOWED HIM; AND WIST NOT THAT IT WAS TRUE WHICH WAS DONE BY THE ANGEL; BUT THOUGHT HE SAW A VISION.

AND I WANTED TO SHARE THIS FROM A SERMON THAT BLESSED ME BY REV. JANAE PITTS-MURDOCK TO “GET UP, GET DRESSED AND GET GOING.”  ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS THE FACT THAT WHILE MANY TIMES, AS WE’RE WALKING IN OUR PURPOSE, SOMETIMES WE GET STUCK AND FEEL LIKE WE ARE STAGNATE, NOT MOVING, LIKE WE’RE IN PRISON… BUT ONE THING WE CAN’T DO IS GET COMFORTABLE.  WE CAN’T GET SO COMFORTABLE THAT WE SET UP SHOP, SET UP CAMP AND TAKE OUR CLOTHES OFF.  AND ANOTHER THING THAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT WE MUST REALIZE THAT WE CAN’T BE SO BLINDED BY OUR PRISON SITUATIONS THAT WE HAVE A “LOOK-BACK” PRAISE, WHEREIN WE THINK WE’RE SEEING VISIONS OF A MIRACLE – BUT REALIZE WE NEED TO GIVE GOD PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE IS DOING RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW.

SO AS YOU GO FORTH IN YOUR PURPOSE, DON’T FEEL LIKE YOU’RE STUCK IN PRISON BECAUSE AT SOME TIME, GOD WILL RELEASE YOU TO MOVE FORWARD. 

POWER AND PURPOSE AFFIRMATION:

IT IS TIME FOR ME TO GET UP, GET DRESSED AND GET GOING IN MY PURPOSE!