{"id":3943,"date":"2015-05-24T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2015-05-21T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:04:23","slug":"inspite-of-the-hard-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2015\/05\/24\/inspite-of-the-hard-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspite Of The Hard Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The Lord has blessed you through everything I\u2019ve done. But now, what about me? When can I start providing for my own family?\u201d Gen.30:30<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Over the next few days, we are going to learn what it takes to bloom in a difficult place. And I believe God will change your life totally with His Word. Please read Genesis 30:25-43<\/a>. The first thing that jumps out at us from this portion of scripture is that Jacob was in a difficult place. Unfortunately, when a lot of people find themselves in Jacob\u2019s predicament, they begin to grumble and complain. Jacob would have been justified to sit under a tree and complain about how Laban was cheating him. After all, they had an agreement but Jacob did not do that. In fact, Laban practically handed him a blank cheque. Take note; when a cunning man gives you a blank cheque, don\u2019t write on it. Laban says, I\u2019m giving you a blank cheque, anything you want, ask of me [translated]. What are your wages? But Jacob said don\u2019t give me anything.<\/p>\n

How did Jacob even get to this point? Jacob left the comfort of his father\u2019s house, because his brother was trying to kill him, to squat with his uncle, Laban. But the place was just a hard place. This may describe where you are right now; yet I have been sent to tell you that you are going to bloom in spite of the hard place. You are going to bloom in that difficult place. Jacob bloomed in spite of the difficulty that he faced. How did he do it? You and I are in the new Covenant; we have a better Covenant than Jacob did. For everyone that is in paid employment, guess what? Your organization is going to flourish because of you. When they pay your salary they are not doing you a favor. In fact, every time they pay you, say \u2018if not me in this place, there will be no salary paid to anybody\u2019. That was just how Jacob was and that is how you will be, in Jesus Name. However, we need to learn a few things from Jacob. The first thing we notice is that Jacob focused on what he could produce and not what was due him<\/em>. So you need to focus on what you can produce and not on your due. Unfortunately, a lot of us are focusing on our due but God is saying you need to begin to focus on what you can produce.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhat wages do you want?\u201d Laban asked again. Jacob replied, \u201cDon\u2019t give me anything. Just do this one thing, and I\u2019ll continue to tend and watch over your flocks\u201d<\/em> Gen.30:31<\/a>. Why was Jacob so confident? Imagine your boss walks up to you, acknowledges your commitment to work and asks how he can reward you. And Jacob says don\u2019t give me a cheque, let us have a deal instead. Jacob knew that when you have a cheque it will expire but when you have a deal it will last longer than a cheque – so opt for the deal.<\/p>\n

Prayer<\/strong>: Father, I thank You for Bloom in every area of my life inspite of the hard place, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The Lord has blessed you through everything I\u2019ve done. But now, what about me? When can I start providing for my own family?\u201d Gen.30:30   Over the next few days, we are going to learn what it takes to bloom in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,84,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloom","category-covenant","category-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}