By Pastor Layi Bamidele

Every testimony has its own test and trial before one attain a triumph. Every success in the life of a believer is a product of test and trial. Before juice and wine is produced, it must be processed.

Pastor Bamidele

Gold can never take its shinning form without thorough refinement. In every process of change there must be discomfort. Remember it is good processing that brings about good product.

The children of Israel were purposed and programmed by God to enter the promised land but they had to go through a process. God can promise you a thing, but that does not mean that when you receive it you may not know how to manage it.

So many believers today are blessed but due to lack of experience, they mismanage the resources they are given. When God brought out the children of Israel from the land of slavery,he did not bring them out to die or to suffer. He brought them out to train them and make them know Him the more.

The level of challenges you can handle will determine the level of testimony you can also manage. For the manifestation of God’s promise for a man’s life, you must be willing to know which way to follow to get to your promise land.

There is no royal road to success in life. Every road that leads to success is always very rough. One major road that leads to your promise land is the wilderness. The wilderness experience is a training school that teaches you the skill for managing God’s resources in the midst of lack.

You must be ready to totally surrender the desires of the flesh to God. In the process of the children of Israel going through the wilderness, God was able to discern those that were fit to enter the promise land.

Thousands of people that Moses brought out of Egypt who were on their way to the promise land, only two of them i.e Joshua and Caleb were fit to enter into the promise land. Exodus 12:31 says: “And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get ye forth among, both ye and the children of Israel and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said”.

Of a truth Pharaoh eventually released the children of Israel after seeing the hand of God in a new dimension, but the fact is that God promised them that their journey to the promised land will take them 40 days and 40 night, but they ended up spending 40 years in the wilderness, because they could not manage their success well.

After God delivered them from the land of Egypt, instead of them to at least consider all the past great deeds of God in the face of the children of Egyptians, they forgot easily the deeds of God, the wonders God has manifested for them, they kept on murmuring each time they were faced with trials, that their actions angered God,and journey of 40 days turned out to be 40 years in the wilderness.

Every complainant often end up as a convict. Every time you face one trial or the other, and you begin to complain and murmur, you are already digging  your grave gradually.

May I say this, Moses missed the promised land after all his years of labour before God. He only murmured when the children of Israel provoked him with their act of disobedience. In the journey of a man’s success you’ll be faced with all manner of the acts of provocation and annoyance, if you get angry unnecessarily, it may make a man to miss his promise land.

Numbers 20:10 says: “And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels, must we fetch you water out of this rock?”.

All the long years of Moses efforts ended up without getting to the promised land because of his careless talk.

Every child of God that will go far in life must be mindful of what you do and what you say. I pray for someone, may all your efforts in the race of life not end up in vanity because of our carelessness. Whatever we say or do, know that God is watching your actions and behaviour.

On your way to destiny, you will be tempted with different things. Never allow Satan the devil sway you from your God ordained destiny. Whenever God give you an assignment and you miss it at the middle of the road, you have allowed Satan to gain access through tricks and dubious means.