Core Scripture: Mark 2: 1-12
- Destiny helpers are people that add value to you
- Destiny helpers are people that are strategically positioned to help you arrive at your expected end
- Destiny helpers are people that fight your battles as if the battles are theirs
- Destiny helpers are people that use their own networks to open up opportunities for you
- Destiny Helpers are individuals that carry burdens for others
- If there are destiny helpers then there are also destiny killers and destiny hijackers (Joseph brothers & David family)
- The weapons of the Christian’s warfare are the most powerful on earth. They can demolish all the attackers of your destiny who are trying to prevent you from reaching your goal in life.
- Friends faced a door of disappointment
- In the passage of scripture when the 4 men brought they friend to where Jesus was they were disappointed because there was a crowd and they couldn’t get to where Jesus was.
- They could have felt that it was disappointing to carry our friend all the way to Jesus and not be able to bring him close to Christ
- They could have turned away and returned back home because they would have said to each other obviously it is not God’s will for our friend to be healed
- Sometimes we feel like if it is my time then the path is smooth
- The man that was paralyzed was already used to disappointments, he’s entire life was a disappointment
- Sometimes certain doors are not meant for you, you need to use another entrance and hence the need to have destiny helpers
- Sometimes the reason why you got rejected in a relationship and means that it wasn’t the right door for you.
- So as they go up the house they don’t find a door but they make a door.
- Some of the opportunities we come across are not so obvious (widow at Zarephath, Gideon, Rebecca at the well, Saul look for donkeys)
- The best things that can happen to you life is to be turned away from the front door because you will then discover that there is another door.
- Vs 5 says when Jesus saw their faith, it doesn’t say when Jesus heard their faith >> James 2:14-26
- These men refused to go home that easy. >> Genesis 32:22-32
- Before Jesus could heal him, he had to work on the paralyzed man’s spirit, that is why he said your sins are forgiven. Jesus has to do something in you before he can do anything on you
- You need to have the right 4 who will put you at the feet of Jesus
- The wrong 4 would have left you at the door of the house
- The devil seeks to destroy the destiny of the children of God. He and his agents have devised many means of discovering the destiny of the children of God. For example, when a baby is born, they use his stars, read his palm, and use light and sand to discover his destiny. They would then manipulate and abort the destiny.
- They also manipulate people’s destiny by manipulating their placenta, using charms and covenants, throwing things in the sea and by witchcraft.
- When Jesus was born, Herod, (the spirit that kills good things in infancy) tried to kill Him. Joseph was warned by an angel to take Him to Egypt, thus His life was spared.
- The devil, using human agents like Herod and Pilate and the religious rulers of the day, got Jesus crucified. The devil did not realize that the death of Jesus marked the beginning of his defeat. The day Jesus died, he jubilated. He thought he had destroyed God’s plan. On the resurrection morning, he wept as the Lord of glory rose from the dead. God’s prophecy had come to plant the seed of the woman making it impossible to destroy the destiny of Jesus. By killing Jesus, the devil helped Him fulfil His destiny.
- Are your 4 driving you to Jesus or away from Jesus
- When Jesus saw what the 4 men did to their friend he forgave them
- What the friends of the paralytic man did got he’s sins forgiven what the Scribes thought about Jesus got the man saved, that is why the bible says pray for your enemies
- Jesus need Judas Iscariot so as to fulfill he’s destiny
- Opposition at the door >> 1 Corinthians 16:9
- Where there is a great door of blessings and deliverances for you there is always opposition
- The reason I know that there is an open door it’s because many are opposing me
- The paralyzed man also had to do something and that was to obey what God had said to him, to arise, carry he’s bed and walk
- Jeremiah 7:23 >> But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
- All the things that came carrying you, you will go out carrying it (pain, sorrow, depression, sickness, heart break, unforgiveness, backsliding). Just like the man at the pool of Bethesda
- Someone is still lying on that bed but you have resurrection power within you to raise you up
- That man came through the roof but he left through the same door that the crowd didn’t want him to enter through
- There are 4 different types of divine helpers that you need in you spiritual walk with the Lord
- 1. Spiritual Helpers
- 2 Kings 6: 15-20 >> Gehazi’s eyes are opened
- Supernatural help comes
- 2. Ministers of God
- 2 Kings 5: 1-4 >> Naaman
- The little maid connected Naaman to the prophet
- They might not be great but they are able to connect you someone that is great
- 3. Impactful People
- 2 Samuel 9 >> David & Mephibosheth
- Mephibosheth connected to David a man that was impactful
- Someone can connect you to someone that can give you a job
- 4. Physical Helpers
- Mark 15: 21 >> Simon of Cyrene
- He carried the cross of Jesus to Golgotha
- To carry the burdens of other people
Conclusion
Genesis 2:18 (NLT) >> The Lord will create a destiny helper for you
Prayers
- I call form my destiny helpers
- Father help me locate my destiny helpers
- O Lord, let my divine destiny appear and let perverted destiny disappear.
- I reject every satanic re-arrangement of my destiny, in Jesus’ name.
- I refuse to live below my divine standard, in the name of Jesus.
- Every evil power having negative awareness of my destiny, be roasted and die, in the name of Jesus.
- I paralyze every destiny polluter and destiny killers, in the name of Jesus.
- Every damage done to my destiny, be repaired now, in Jesus’ name.
- The enemy will not convert my body to rags, in the name of Jesus.
- The enemy will not convert my destiny to rags, in Jesus’ name.
- I reject destiny-demoting names, in the name of Jesus.
- I refuse to operate below my divine destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- O Lord, anoint my eyes, hand and legs to locate my divine purpose.
- Every power contending with my divine destiny, scatter unto desolation, in the name of Jesus.
- Satan, I resist and rebuke your efforts to change my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- Satan, I remove from you the right to rob me of my divine destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- I command all powers of darkness assigned to my destiny to leave and never return, in the name of Jesus.
- I command all the enemies of Jesus Christ that have access to my progress and destiny to leave and never return, in the name of Jesus.
- I paralyse every satanic opportunities contending against my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- Every incantation, ritual and witchcraft power against my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
- I render null and void the influence of destiny swallowers, in the name of Jesus.
- Every household wickedness struggling to re-arrange my destiny, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.
- O Lord, bring to light every darkness shielding my potentials for my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- I break every curse of backwardness affecting my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- I shall not come to the world in vain, in the name of Jesus.
- Every local charm working against my destiny, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.
- I withdraw my destiny from every satanic regulation and domination, in the name of Jesus.