DIVINE ASSIGNMENT

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 Text : 1 Samuel 9:3.

The donkeys belonging to Kish, Saul’s father, were lost, and Kish told his son Saul, “Take one of the young men with you, get up, and go look for the donkeys.”

 *God doesn't and cannot make mistake. No child is a mistake as far as God is concerned.* The child, whether conceived in wedlock or outside is no mistake to God.

Mistakes are only in the realms of men, as for God, every child has a purpose for which God has allowed him or her to come to this world. 

The general purpose of man is to give God pleasure. Revelation 4:11. However, there's is a particular way that is peculiar to each individual on earth whereby God has purposed for him to give Him pleasure.

Now, it is your responsibility to know the chart that God has purposed for you to walk in. A number of times, such paths are always packaged in a simple assignment given by man.

For Saul, his divine assignment was packaged to him by his father. Kish, Saul’s father did not know he was being used by God to send his son on errands that will lead him to the throne.

In verse three, the Bible said Kish sent Saul on a mission to look for his missing donkeys but by verse sixteen, the narrative had changed. 

Now one day before Saul’s arrival, the LORD had revealed to Samuel:

“About this time tomorrow I’ll send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him as Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel. He’ll deliver my people from the control of the Philistines, because I’ve seen the suffering of my people and because their cry has come up to me.”

When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man I told you about. This man will rule over my people.” 1 Samuel 9:15-17.

If Saul had refused to obey his father, he would have simply disobeyed God's call.

If you cannot submit to people God had placed over you, you cannot submit to God even if He spoke to you thunderously.

YOUR DIVINE ASSIGNMENT IS PACKAGED IN SMALL ASSIGNMENTS.

Bible reading:1 Samuel 9:1-27.

PRAYER FOCUS 

1. Father, give me the grace not to disdain little assignments but to do it as unto the Lord. 



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