MANIFESTING DIVINE SPEED! - PART 2 - DIVINE SPEED TO FULFIL GOD’S PURPOSE!..

 

“And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.” — 1 Kings 18:46 (KJV)

There are incommunicable attributes of God that emphasize the absolute distinction between God and His creation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence are some of these attributes. With these attributes, God oftentimes intervenes in the course of our lives to help us and also to fulfil His purpose in our lives.  It does not matter at what season we are in. Sometimes life seems to move at a pace that does not reflect the prayers we have prayed, the sacrifices we have made, or the preparation we have undergone. We have prayed. We have waited. We have worked. We have remained faithful. Yet, somehow, the results seem delayed.

What we need is the hand of God. There is a dimension of God's power that can change the speed of our journey. When God steps into a process, He does in a moment what human strength could not accomplish in years; obstacles give way, doors open, opportunities align, and long-awaited results begin to manifest with unusual speed. This is what we describe as Divine Speed. Divine speed is not merely running fast physically. It is the supernatural enablement of God that causes a person to accomplish, recover, advance, arrive, or experience in a short period what ordinarily might require a much longer time. It is God accelerating a process without compromising His purpose.

Our anchor passage in 1 Kings 18:46 presents one of the most remarkable pictures of supernatural acceleration in Scripture:

“And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah…”

It is obvious that Elijah's speed was connected to the hand of God. The Bible does not simply say that Elijah became stronger through human effort, but that the hand of the Lord came upon him. The supernatural hand of God enabled him to outrun a king who was travelling by chariot. This is significant because Elijah had just experienced an extraordinary spiritual victory on Mount Carmel. Fire had fallen from heaven, the prophets of Baal had been confronted, and the people had acknowledged the Lord as God (1 Kings 18:20–39). Elijah then prayed for rain after a prolonged drought, and God answered (1 Kings 18:41–45). Immediately after this, something unusual happened: the same God who had answered Elijah's prayer for rain also empowered Elijah to move with extraordinary speed.

God is still able and willing to fulfil His purpose in our lives. We can still lean on His promise: "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time."(Isaiah 60:22). Our four-part series for the month of October “Manifesting Divine Speed”, focuses on a loving God that is with us on every part of our journey. He is interested in our affairs and can be trusted as we discover and fulfil destiny.

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