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Detour Up Ahead!

Currently I am babysitting my youngest grandchild three days a week. On my daughter’s days off, I made a statement, “When you're off, I’m off too”! After I said it, I had a revelation that although I am 55 years old, God has blessed me with good health physically and mentally. He is telling me I am more than capable of taking care of my 6 month old grandson with no determent. He put it in my heart the journey to the "Promised Land" will have obstacles that slow us down to our divine destiny – but we will arrive. It could take 18 years or 3 months, but you will get there!


Recall in the bible, Sarah had a baby at the age of 90. “The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for her as He had promised. For Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time God had told him. Abraham named his son whom Sarah bore to him Isaac [laughter]. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born. And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh; all who hear will laugh with me. And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children at the breast? For I have borne him a son in his old age! (Genesis 21:1-7 AMP)

You have been in a position for over 30 years and have been considering early retirement. A promotion is offered to you that you applied for four years ago. It’s no coincidence, it’s God’s timing! Or, you want to go to college; however, you will need an additional $80k to complete your Bachelor’s degree. You have no choice but to stay at home and find a job. While you are at home, a parent becomes ill and you are the only one there to care for them; although the parent fully recovers, you would have had to take a year or two off from college; if God would not have blocked it. Whereas; now you are able to attend college with no interruptions – paid in full! His way is always the best way! Yes it’s frustrating when we do not understand or see what’s waiting for us over that mountain!

Modern day Mount Sinai 


The Israelites had an eleven day’s journey from Horeb (Mount Sinai) by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea [on Canaan’s border; yet Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years before crossing the border and entering Canaan, the promised land]. Deuteronomy 1:2 AMP 

When they arrived scripture says, “And you shall remember [always] all the ways which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart (mind), whether you would keep His commandments or not. He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, [a substance] which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand [by personal experience] that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years. Therefore, know in your heart (be fully cognizant) that the Lord your God disciplines and instructs you just as a man disciplines and instructs his son”. Deuteronomy 8:2-5 AMP


Enough said! So wake up every day with expectancy and joy in what God’s day will bring! Don’t get cynical when your way led you to a "dead end". Detours eventually get you to your destiny!


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