RESERVED SEATS

Mat 20:23 Jesus said to them, "You will drink my cup. But I don't have the authority to grant

you a seat at my right or left. My Father has already prepared these positions for certain

people" (God’s word version).

Every one of us has gone to those programs or occasions or restaurants were seats are reserved or to parking lots were spaces are reserved. These reserved seats or spaces are saved for people who may not have come to the event yet but when they show up, who ever had taken their seats will have to vacate the seats. These are seats that a lot of people desire and are normally the best the house has to offer. The people for whom the seats are reserved are special and important people.

Friend even in the things of God, seats has been reserved and places have been kept!

You have a place in the program of God! You are not here by mistake, there is a place that God has kept and reserved for you both in this life and in the life to come.

The bible says you are to be above only and not beneath! You are destined for the top. You are not expected to be beneath in life. He has made provision for you at the top.

With regards to our place in the life to come, in the book of Revelation, Jesus kept commenting on provisions made for over-comers. He also said that in his father’s house there are many mansions there and that he goes to prepare a place for us. Friend a place has been reserved for you! When a place is reserved, your name is put on the seat or table. Sometimes it could be access to several areas being sealed off because it is reserved.

The passage above starts with a request by the mother of two sons. She was requesting for these reserved seats for her children. Jesus asked the children if they could go through what he was to go through.

Without a test there is no testimony! Without something to overcome, we cannot claim to be over-comers. If there is no contest, conflict, fight or battles then how do you determine who is a victor? To get to that reserved place you are to over-come some stuff here on earth. You are required to come out victorious here on planet earth.

Friend a place has been prepared for you. Your seat is reserved and you’re destined for the top! Don’t settle for less.

For you to get to that prepared place, you have to be yielded to God. You need to be born again. The place is prepared, the wedding feast is set but not every one called is worthy of a reserved seat.  Not everyone seats on the high table! Places have been kept but those who refuse to submit to God will not enter those places.  Some will lose their places out of careless deeds. Judas Ischariot had a place in the ministry committed to the apostles but his place another had to take. A seat was reserved for him but he lost it!

May our places not be taken or our crowns given to another!

I would like to end with this scripture:

John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

 Destinies are elusive and the place prepared is only a dream if one does not yield to God. Are you yielded? Are you born again?