Focus: No Abortion of Destiny

Text: Gal.1:15-16.

"But when it pleased God, who SEPARATED ME FROM MY MOTHER's WOMB, and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood."

The point I want you to take home from this text is that the destiny of Paul was arranged by God before he was born. From the womb Paul was already called, chosen and anointed by God for a divine purpose.

But Paul, as a young man lived against that divine purpose. It is said of him, "As for Saul, he made HAVOCK of the church, entering into every house, and HALING men and women committed them to PRISON" - Act.8:3.

Paul says of himself, "... how that beyond measure I PERSECUTED the church of God, and WASTED it" - Gal.1:13.

Again, he says, "And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women" - Act.22:4.

Yet again, "And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities" - Act.26:11.

Also, Paul says, "Who was before a BLASPHEMER, and a PERSECUTOR, and INJURIOUS: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief" - 1Tim.1:13.

Paul was right there to ensure that, Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian Church, was stoned to death. He consented to it and watched him killed.

Paul lived in unbelief, but thought he was a believer. He worked against God, but thought he was working for God. He lived in ignorance of God, but thought he knew a whole lot about God. In fact he was culpably ignorant.

In the womb, Paul was God's ordained preacher, but growing up, he was a blood-thirsty persecutor. Had he died in this condition, he would have gone straight to hell, and his divine destiny would have been sadly aborted.

But mercy met and radically changed him, and God was pleased to reveal His Son in Paul. From that moment of his supernatural encounter with God he went on to fulfill his destiny. Satan lost his grips on Paul, and he lived to finish his assignment.

From the moment we encounter God we begin to realize our destiny. I pray that Satan will never succeed in aborting your God-assigned destiny. I pray your destiny will not miscarry. I believe someone will rediscover himself and recover his destiny. I declare there shall be no abortion of destiny! Amen.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter