102nd BDS – 10/5/2023

Scripture Reference: Ezekiel 37:3-14

You don’t know how many times I’ve thought about why GOD placed me in places where I thought, “Okay, this is my last stop.. I love it and this is exactly where I want to be!”.. and then a change in my life’s season comes and I find myself packing up and heading to a totally different place to seemingly start all over again. It took me a while to fully understand that His intention was to grow me up, increase my total dependency in and on Him, expand my territory through Him and to breathe new life into me where He saw I was fading to black. In short, He was, is and continues to increase my faith with every new placement. How about you? Have you found yourself in uncomfortable positions for however long of a period it may be, while wondering, “Why, LORD? Why now? Again, LORD?!”

Know that with every challenge, the meaning behind it will be revealed in due time.. um yeah, in GOD’s impeccably perfect timing!!!

“which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of Lords;”

‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭6‬:‭15‬ ‭KJV‬‬

YES, in His appointed time He will show you just how powerful He really is. Sure the Scripture is speaking in reference to His coming.. but charge it to your life and how only He can show up just in time to rescue us from a fall, pick us up and dust us off while nudging us forward when we stumble and pluck us up and plant us in a new garden all for His glory alone. So let’s dive in!!!

Jeremiah 29:11 / Romans 8:28 / Psalm 33:11 / Psalm 32:8 / Proverbs 3:5-8 / Proverbs 16:3-4 / 1 Corinthians 2:9 / Proverbs 16:9

Final Thought: Could you really imagine your life without GOD leading you whether you truly acknowledge it or not?! Of course we gain bumps and bruises on this road, of course we don’t understand why sometimes, of course we find ourselves putting the cart before the horse 🐎 then feel like we’re not going anywhere and of course we can end up feeling like Balaam on the back of the talking donkey who ended up finding out that while he was angry that the donkey wouldn’t go in the direction that he wanted to go, it actually saved his life. (see: Numbers 22:27-35) Ain’t that just like us when the frustration of not knowing why we aren’t going forward, why something didn’t work out, and/or why we’ve landed in a particular city, or job, or relationship, or dead end friendship or even have been placed around people who don’t see things quite the way that we do at all??? I know you can relate. Just remember we weren’t put here to depend on others but moreover the proficiency of our Heavenly Father, our lives weren’t designed for us to make the decisions that we think are best for us, GOD is always working behind the scenes on our behalf and allowing the sudden roadblocks just may save your life.

“a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”

‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3‬:‭2‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Every placement is a replacement for what could have been, if we didn’t allow GOD to carefully place us.

-M. D. Nichols

-Minister Marchand, Founder and Pastor of JESUS IS GLOBAL MINISTRIES-JIGM and JESUS IS GLOBAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY-JIGMIA