Keep Digging

By: Deaconess Kemi Epidi

Genesis 26:22 says, " And he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, ‘At last the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land. (NASB)'" 

Today, many people are experiencing opposition at home, office, marriage, career, business, ministry, and in all other walks of life by forces that are not of God. The good news is that your opposition is your divine privilege for sudden promotion.

Rehoboth does not just signify ordinary enlargement. It means enlargement in the face of opposition; promotion in the face of commotion; shining in the face of striving and progress in the face of persecution.  Does Rehoboth come automatically when we are persecuted? Not really. 

It comes by our persistence( Isaac did not give up until he climbed up);  patience ( Isaac did not hire thugs to fight the Philistines and did not return their fire for fire); prayers ( don't for get that Isaac was a child of Abr aham, so his petition to the God of his father was real) and praises ( in all things, let the altar of praises be higher than the altar of needs).

Rehoboth is an answer to questions and a solution to problems.   All of us will encounter multiple obstacles on the road toward our promises. The contentious wells of Esek and Sitnah tend to drain the life out of us rather than provide any refreshing.

Their waters are bitter. They are the hard places where we are most tempted to quit.  We must learn to see the solution even when problems are barking and biting. Whatever you may be facing that seems insurmountable, see them as opportunities for advancement. 

You are about to move from the pits to the palace simply because you didn’t give up. God will prepare that room for us and that’ll just be the beginning of greater and better things to come, in Jesus Name. Amen

You will have good success this 2018. 

Remain blessed. 

Shalom.