I stated in one of the other writings that we had just finished our study on the book of Acts. The book of Acts is the acts of the Holy Spirit through the Apostles. Luke the physician is the writer of the book of Acts. Luke through the guidance of the Holy Spirit puts his focus on two main personalities, the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul. The first part of the book of Acts centers around Peter, Acts 1:1-12:25, and the second part of the book central theme is Paul Acts 13: 1,28:31. Have you ever felt like something was hindering you, impeding your progress, standing in the way of your destiny. We all know that there is an enemy out there who will plot , scheme dig ditches to stop us from reaching our goal. The Bible says " And he shall speak great words against the most High , and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:" Daniel 7:25 . That's the job of the enemy to try to wear us down by his hindering influence. He also wants to frustrate us and get us out of character, but the word of God says " Behold , I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19.
I felt this was an very important passage in scripture because it's shows us another side of something blocking our way or hindering us!! So is it safe to say that it is not the devil stopping us at times, that sometimes it could be GOD? In our scripture Acts 16:6-10 the apostle Paul is trying to go into Asia to preach the gospel, "but" the Holy Spirit( FORBIDDEN HIM.) Why would the Spirit do such a thing, stop someone from spreading the GOSPEL? It was Paul's mission to take the gospel to the gentile nations. Let's look at the word Forbidden=to hinder, prevent forbid, to withhold a thing from anyone, to deny or refuse one a thing: Is there a chance that God will hinder, forbid us from doing a thing or reaching a goal, is it possible to do a good thing at the wrong time? There are times God will stop or hinder a thing for different reasons. There are times we have " haters" I mean people around us that will share in a blessing that they haven't suffered for ,or paid the price for. And God in His SOVEREIGNTY,and OMNISCIENCE knows what's best for us. I thought this was interesting the root word for FORBIDDEN one of the definitions means to " LOP OR PRUNE could it be that God is pruning away some things off of you before you get the blessing? What God is going to do with you is going to be so awesome he was to cut or prune away things and people out of your life. And that's some of the reason for the delay . The apostle Paul was attempting to go into Asia and spread the gospel" the good news and glad tidings of Jesus Christ, but the Holy Spirit forbid ,blocked. stopped hindered his progress . Until Paul had a vision of a man telling him to come into Macedonia to preach, the door was wide open. Right now I sense the Holy Spirit opening some doors for some of you that the time is now for your blessing ,some things you've been waiting for God to do, AND HE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU!!!! You will have a testimony of being BLESSED BY HINDRANCE!! This is so awesome to me WHEN the apostle Paul finally went into Asia God didn't just give Paul a few cities he gave him the whole CONTINENT!!! It was worth the wait, God just doesn't want to give you A BLESSING , he wants to OPEN THE FLOOD GATES, give you a DOWN POUR, a TSUNAMI OF BLESSINGS. SO STAY PRAYERFUL AS YOU WAIT ON "THE BLESSING OF HINDERANCE".
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