THERE IS A PATH(V)

Text: Luke 1:28

“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women”. KJV

Please follow the series and you are going to see the path. When God came to Mary and said ‘You are blessed and highly favoured’. He didn’t give her a Rolls Royce. He did not open a bank account and wired it with 5Million naira. He did not give her a suit made from San Francisco. Meanwhile, when that salutation came and after it came, she became an outcast. She was to suffer the fate of an outcast among the people. The husband being an honourable man was planning to put her away privately. We need to re-evaluate what we call blessing. It is because there is no teaching again in the body of Christ that is why a charlatan can stand up and say he had a vision and the vision does not reveal Christ. Meanwhile Christ is the subject of scripture according to Luke 24:44-45. How come God says Mary was blessed and highly favoured? She was highly favoured and blessed because of the path she was going to follow. That path was going to subdue everything of flesh for her destiny in spirit life which she cannot perceive even though an angel is bringing it. An angel brought a scroll from the archives of heaven and read it out, ‘you are blessed and highly favoured’. It means in all of time and among women in all ages, to the end of the world you were chosen as a matriarch because it was written concerning you but you cannot see this destiny in the flesh. But I am going to advance you on a path; that path will reveal it. It was that path she was going that she suffered rejection. It was that path that she was going that her husband almost separated from her. You know it is a terrible thing for a woman to be in situation where the husband will separate from her. That was the path, though crooked, that she must walk upon in order for the things that are written concerning her to find expression and that is God’s will for her and because of that; she is blessed and highly favoured. The path ensured that flesh be conquered. God only called people that were on the path of spiritual progress blessed. Suct that no matter the peril you go through, the things written concerning you will come through in time and even while you stumble, He says 'oh, blessed and highly favoured’. Even when you are about to fall; you are about to be cast out; if the angel comes again, he won’t change his mind. Maybe you looked upon your wardrobe and the dry desert wind blew through your window and revealed that your best trouser just had a hole. If only you can hear the angles cry, ‘thou art blessed’. Your condition may affect you but it didn’t affect your destiny. If you live in in the context of the soul life, you will be discouraged by the events, but it is only in the Spirit that you can see through the vistas of God. Sometimes, people reject you in the whole family and you are like an outcast. Meanwhile, you are closer at that point to destiny. God says you are blessed and highly favoured. A man alone with God is majority. If you have never been rejected before, you may never have been on the path. When men go through trouble they don’t forget it. And they will not want to go back to the trouble so they will prefer to walk in the Spirit – it is a burden. God will create and orchestrate a situation that will perpetually keep you on the path of spiritual progress. No human being can come there; no human will desire to stay there except by an act of the sovereignty of God; you are pushed. Every true man that has walked that path cannot tell you the story of how he got there. That is why boasting is excluded. It is altogether an act of His sovereignty; it is altogether by the faith of the Son of God. On the path of spiritual progress, the grain must fall and the husk must die. The life that covers your spirit; that gives you an alternative when the Lord is speaking through your spirit, that life that furnishes that alternative; that life must be subdued so that the accurate passage of spirit life can break forth from one dimension of glory to the other. (Amen) When the grain of wheat falls to the ground and the elements react with the husk; the moisture in the earth will dilute it and react with it and kill it and it begins to rot. Jesus calls that process, ‘blessed and highly favoured’. Many things have come from the pulpit that has engendered babyhood Christianity and the path of spiritual progress has been blocked. But we are going to mount up with wings as eagles. That limitation and restriction must be taken away so that people can come to their true God and people can embrace their Saviour. Amen. And the Lord will help us so to do as we progress in Jesus' name