Shift

In this blog I’m gonna talk about God’s sovereignty choice:

I know the story of a man that refused to be replaced. He was the pastor of one of the biggest assemblies of God in Brazil .. in one of the states I won’t say it because … well … everything that I say or write nowadays .. becomes news next day. So I gotta be careful with that. I’m serious.

But this man was the president of the National Convention of the Assemblies of God of Brazil in that state, which I won't mention by name … like i just told you. ……. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . .. . . . . .. . ..

One day he came to his staff and said this: “Hey guys, I’m gonna retire. I’m too old now to be traveling all over Brazil and I would like to spend more time with my family at this point. I prayed to God and He told me He was okay with that. What do you guys think?”

Everybody went like: “yes pastor! We agree with you. As a matter of fact, we also thought about the same thing. We were also praying and felt like you had to use this time for your family and retire. But here is the thing, we need someone to replace your role because we have lots of things going on and without a president to lead us, we are lost and with no clear direction on what to do next.”

He said: “I totally understand guys, I believe you’re right on that! Let’s pray for a leader! Let’s get into a moment of prayer and fasting to ask God for someone to replace me. Let’s start it off now!”

So, they all solely begun praying and fasting and asking God for a replacement. When one day, unanimously, the name of one of them appeared. God revealed the name of this man!

“Wow! Our pastor will love to know that God finally revealed the name of his substitute! Let’s do a meeting, invite our leader and share with him what we got from the Lord.” The staff said.

So they made the meeting, brought the pastor in, and they all prayed and everything and brought up the name of this man.

“WHAT!” - the pastor said.

“THIS GUY!? TO REPLACE ME?! NO WAY JOSE! OF ALL NAMES INSIDE OF THIS CONVENTION YOU PICKED THIS ONE?! I FEEL INSULTED!” - he said.

“But pastor, here is the thing, we have been praying and fasting for a couple of weeks now and it has been almost two months and God told us that this man is the chosen one.” - they said.

“Go and pray some more because God has to talk to me too! I didn’t hear anything!” - he said.

So again, the whole staff now, went to another session of prayer and fasting and a serious moment of devotion to hear from the Lord. This time, they had prophecies, signs, revelations, words, you name it! Every single evidence that they ever needed to hear from the Lord concerning this replacement, they heard it.

“Okay guys … well … we are more than SURE now that this man is really the man .. let’s make another meeting, invite our pastor over, and tell him that God is clearly telling us to stick with this revelation because in this revelation God is showing us that he is the chosen one!” - The staff said.

So they altogether, invited the pastor for another meeting, they all sat down and discussed about the revelations God gave them concerning this man for hours! And let me tell you … this meeting didn’t look pretty. For some reason, the pastor had a beef with this man and they didn’t like each other somehow and they struggled and fought during this meeting .. YES …. THEY FOUGHT! … Brazilians guys .. we tend to NOT accept NO as an answer.

“ONLY IF IT’S OVER MY DEAD BODY!” - the pastor cried.

“Oh My GOD! YOU’RE CHALLENGING GOD!! YOU THINK WE MADE THIS ONE UP BUT HE IS THE ONE THAT GOD REVEALED US!” - the staff said.

A few weeks later, and so not long after this meeting, the pastor fell ill. He was over his 70s but his health was good. He didn’t have any sort of compromising factor concerning his health. The man was a healthy man. He was rushed to the hospital with a few symptoms that were getting worse by the day. Then, it developed into a fever, he had complications with an infection and …

The pastor died.

After he died, the whole church cried for him because he was very dear to them. They spent a few months lamenting about his passing and cried and cried.

The staff did another meeting and now this time they gathered to install the man elected through the revelation that God gave, to become the president of the entire convention and replace the pastor.

The man literally became his replacement over his dead body.

We gotta be careful with whom we underestimate and mock.

Now .. for anyone that didn’t know what was going on inside of these meetings … they just heard that the pastor passed away and died. They probably got very upset at God and blamed on him for being unfair with a man that was not living a sinful life and all of a sudden passed away lol

When a christian gets sick and die .. or else .. die out of the blue … God knows what He is doing … period. (I had to throw in my PERIOD right there … hehehehehe)

God has one thing … I mean .. He has a lot of cool gadgets in his Godly arsenal .. but sovereignty is one thing that blows anyone’s mind. It blows your mind because there’s no explanation whatsoever.

This is God straight up saying: I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AND THAT’S IT! I DON’T CARE WHAT Y’ALL THINK! SHUT UP AND HOLD MY COFFEE! I’M THE COMMANDER AND CHIEF OF THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE AND I DO WHATEVER I WANT AND I WANT TO DO THIS AND I DON’T OWE YOU AN EXPLANATION! I’M GOING TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, CRY ME A RIVER!”

God uses his eternal purposes to accomplish his promises and this can happen anywhere my friends. This can happen inside of a ministry, inside of a matrimony that is not working out well, this can happen inside of a business, a venture, anything! There are times that God somehow intervenes! He shows up and puts everything back together. First, he performs a BIG SHIFT, and then puts everything back together with new pieces.

I’ve been observant that this tends to happen a lot when people start opposing to whatever God wants to do for someone. When people become a blockage, God removes the stone out of His way.

So if you’re looking for bible verses to back up what I say …….. google it. It’s too late now and i’m going to sleep and I owe you no bible verses. Go ahead and do your own research, you’re a grown up woman already, or a man … (highly doubt … men don’t read this much like I’ve told you several times in my other blogs … )

Another thing that I’d like to add here … is that you may be God’s option to replace someone too. YES, you reading my blog. God has a crazy way to work and if He feels like you’re THE BEST replacement for someone, so He can do his perfect will come alive and bless BIG time his people, HE WILL DO IT. Be sure of that.

So if you feel in your heart to pray for someone or a specific situation …. DO IT! Maybe God is already working in your heart for something that has to be changed. He might be trying to communicate with you that you really need to pray for this someone or for this something. Maybe He wants to give this to you … believe me.

God speaks and He lives