Provision for Your Destiny – The Presidential Prayer Team

Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. – Exodus 23:20

Have you ever tried counting how many promises there are in the Bible—promises God has made? According to one count, there are 3,573! If you could make a daily application of each one for your life, you’d fill a journal of nine years and nine months. Of course, not all of them apply to you personally, but thousands do. Why has God given you His promises? Certainly, your faith is built up as you see Him fulfill His will. In Exodus 23, God promises the Israelites an angel to guide them into the Promised Land… and the promise came with conditions. Their destiny was secured in His promises, so long as they followed His plan for them. Have you considered your destiny here on Earth has been established in God’s promises for you?

Many of God’s promised provisions for your destiny include His protection, His presence, His provision, and your ultimate possession of the place He has prepared for you (John 14). Are they conditional? Often, yes. Many are dependent on your obedience to His Word. Peter reminds you that “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). To know your destiny in God’s promises, you must first know Him, through the shed blood of His Son, Jesus. There is no other way.

A little chorus the children sing says, “Every promise in the book is mine; every chapter, every verse, and every line, all are blessings of His love divine.” Find a daily promise meant for you, journal it and your thoughts, be obedient to any conditions, and give thanks. Pray for officials in our government to find their real destiny, not in political achievements, but in Christ Jesus, that they might truly walk with Him.

Today’s Verse: Exodus 23:20

Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

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Recommended for further reading: John 14:1-14

14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.” ⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. ¹³Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.