You have served God with all diligence, you have sowed seed and fasted but things are not moving.
To quickly remind you, in 1 Samuel 2:1-21, each year, Elkanah would take his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah, to Shiloh to present a sacrifice to God and worship the Lord at the Tabernacle there. And every year it was the same for Hannah: She walked away with her deepest longing unmet. She desired children, yet God had not opened her womb. Who knows how long Hannah went through the annual routine…. but God still closed the womb of Hannah. That was a Divine delay.
What ever God allows to delay in your life, it is because you are about to produce your Samuel. There is something special in you – that is why you are not coming out like everybody else – you carry a Samuel.. a prophet of God.
Samuel was used by God to establish the house of Isreal. You are about to bring forth something the world has not seem that will transform generations. You are carrying something unique.
Sarah waited till she was old in age. But right in the inside of her was an Isaac. God took away the reproach of Elizabeth, wife of a Priest who used to speak blessings to people everyday, command a blessing upon an entire country. But one day, the Lord spoke.. his name will be called John.
John was the only one allowed to prepare the way of the Savior Jesus Christ. Divine Delay!
Genesis 30:22 says, Then God remembered Rachel, and listened to her and opened her womb. So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” This too, was a Divine delay.
I have come to deal with something called reproach. Whatever reproach you have faced in your life, at your place of work, relationships; marriage and family. Wherever the reproach is, it must stop. It has delayed you enough. That insult and error is ending now.
People associate with you, and you associate with them but you do it artificially because the reproach is weighing you down. But it must end by fire now.
Hebrew word for Reproach is ‘Cherpah’ – it means, disgrace, shame, reviling, defy, confusion, error, insult. When we say it must leave – It means you will no-longer be put to shame – no more errors in your life. I don’t know the amount or reproach you have had, but it must leave.
When that reproach is taken away… you will be amazed. You are about to go to a level and dimension where people will wonder what kind of person you are. God is about to do something that you have never imagined in life.
There is time you will be dedicated and think you have done it more than anybody else. There is time when you will give to God, think it is the best and He does not respond. It does not mean He did not receive you offering or rejected it or He does not love you . In the kingdom of God, there is something that we call times and seasons. David said in Psalms 31; My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.
He battled wild creatures but no one knew about it.His time finally came child of God – Your season of manifestation is coming this day in the mighty name of Jesus! Satan is too weak to hold you down, to delay your miracle.
God has allowed the delay because there are certain things he has been sorting in your life. But today he says to me; Go and speak deliverance in their lives.
Your testimony is coming child of God. May God, your father who remembered Rachael remember you today in the name of Jesus. God listened to Rachael, and opened her womb. She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach. Your reproach is leaving today! Hallelujah!
Sermon by Pr Dr Godfrey Kamese. (Senior Pastor of Praise Cathedral Ntinda.)
