It’s Not About the Validation of Man

True story -

Sometimes the Lord will allow the very people who should be recognizing the work of the Spirit in your life to be the ones who overlook you or misjudge your value or role in the kingdom. Leaders aren’t perfect, often far from it and very very human. This can be true of one ministry to another, pastor to pastor, prophet to prophet and beyond. Sometimes I am baffled by the inability or willingness of some leaders to connect, recognize the value of others pulling the same weight, walking in similar calling etc. But those people don’t assign value or approval to us. We have to stop being broken by whether or not a leader or ministry accepts or validates us. Not all will. Some may know that I share a testimony of being literally the only person who applied to Bible school when I was 18 and NOT being accepted at the same school that many people I knew were going to. The only one not accepted. It was because one person didn’t see my value and misrepresented me on paper, unaware of their own religious spirit. They were a well known last name and so the reference stuck, even though the others were fine. I realized later despite being broken-hearted, the Lord did not want me at that school because it would have broken me and inundated me with religious theology and suffocated the call of God on my life. Many I knew who went there later (quickly in some cases) stopped following the Lord, lost their footing or never ended up going into ministry. About 5 years ago I was assisting with some ministry needs at a conference in Hartford. As I was standing and ministering prophetically to people in front of the booth I was running, next to a booth for a Bible college, something dawned on me. There had been a man sitting there representing that college for people interested in applying. He was bored and more interested in his computer than he was connecting with people. He spoke to very very few people there over the two days. As I looked at the college name on the second day it occurred to me that this was the same college that had later changed their name and moved. I quickly looked it up to confirm and found I was correct. 20 years after the pain of that trial, the Lord was still producing kingdom fruit in my life, even in the presence of those that had rejected me. I spoke with the man before leaving and shared my story. It was clear from his responses that he knew a mistake had been made. But it wasn’t a mistake really, it was the order and timing of God. When you get tossed in a pit and sold into slavery by those who can’t envision your dream or your value, it’s simply your own process towards your own destiny beginning. Jesus always redeems it. This is for someone(s) today. Be still and know that He sets the order of your life, not man. Obedience will take you where man cannot or will not take you.

- Love and Blessings Charles