Your Celebrity Status

Read Genesis 28:10-22 (Click to Read)

This is an interesting story of Jacob's journey after his father had given him a blessing. His journey was not one he could complete in a day. He had to make a stop, he needed a place to lay his head, a place to rest and sleep. He chose a certain place and he made an excellent discovery. Read to find out!

Did you notice in verse 11 the place he chose to rest at was called “A certain place”. The bible didn’t record the name i.e He came to a certain place, no name, no prominence just one of the many places he could have found to lay his head. He took a stone, no name, no prominence, it could have been any other stone, there was nothing special about it, he just needed to put his head on it. He didn’t have anything special planned just sleep, wake up, continue travelling.

Who could have guessed what would happen the next morning! In Verse 18 He woke up and and said “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” He setup that ‘Ordinary Stone’ as a pillar unto God and he anointed it and gave it a new name. Something great had happened there, the place could no longer be ‘a certain place’ the name needed to be recorded. And so In Verse 19, not only did the bible NOW record the original name of that ‘a certain place’ (Luz). The bible recorded that Jacob gave the place a new name, and also recorded the new name, ‘BETHEL’.

What happened over night that made these things move from being just like any other to attaining ‘Celebrity Status’? If you clicked on the link and read the passage then you know the answer to this question.

Verse 12-15 

12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

The Lord met Jacob at Bethel! 

One thing we all need to know without any shadow of doubt is this: 

When anyone and I mean anyone experiences Gods anointing through you, when God meets someone at the point of their need through your actions or words. When God gives a person a word of breakthrough and deliverance through you or when someone experiences the love of God in you. You will most definitely move from being just any other person, or any other Christian, being any other man, woman, teacher, student, cleaner, father, client, husband, wife, child e.t.c People will want to know “What did you say your name was again?” That is where you will find your celebrity status, the type that is worth something even in the life to come.

  

So, in line with what we read yesterday, we should constantly hunger for more of the Holy Spirit to be at work in us, until we are overflowing and begin to affect other people’s lives. To the point where they say “Wow! God is in this person? I didn’t even know. That means God is real oh!” From that moment on, you attain Your Celebrity Status (which you were not even hungry for in the first place, because you were busy Seeking First the Kingdom).

PRAYER FOR TODAY:

Lord fill me with your Spirit, fill me afresh, fill me anew, make me hungry for more of you in my life. Help me to be a blessing and when I come across people who need a touch from you, use me. Here I am Lord, use me. In Jesus Name, Amen