Where Are You Coming From?

I. MY BELOVED SISTER, It is the same question God asked Hagar in the wilderness. She was running, fleeing, while hurting. She was pregnant, alone, rejected, and lost. And the Angel of the Lord met her and asked her two questions: “Whence camest thou? And whither wilt thou go? Many of us are running through life, but we have never stopped to answer these questions. We are busy, but we are not directed. We are moving, but we are not progressing. We are active, but we are not aligned. Today, if God should ask you the same question, “ What will be your response? Because where you are coming from explains where you are. And where you are coming from will determine where you are going if you don’t deal with it.

You Cannot Know Where You Are Going Until You Remember Where You Are Coming From. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? And whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.” (Genesis 16:8).

II. MY DEAR BROTHER, Hagar was running from Sarai, but her past was running with her. You can run from your house, but you cannot run from your history unless God heals it. Many people have changed location but not transformation. They left the village, but the village did not leave them. They left the relationship, but the pain did not leave them. They left the church, but the offence did not leave them. You can change your address and still carry your baggage. You can change your clothes and still carry your chains. Brother, if you don’t deal with where you are coming from, where you are coming from will deal with you. A man who does not know his starting point cannot draw a correct map. You did not fall from heaven or from somewhere. You came from a family, with a background, with a history, and sometimes from a place of pain, or promise, or both. Some of us are coming from a broken home, poverty and struggle, rejection and abandonment, abuse and shame, sin and addiction, idolatry and ancestral bondage, failure and disappointment, and maybe a past we are trying to forget. You cannot heal what you refuse to confront.

III. SON OF MAN, Joseph came from a pit; his brothers threw him into it. David came from the fields, rejected by his own father. Jephthah came from rejection; they called him a son of a harlot and drove him out. Whether you are coming from a pit, it is not your grave; it is your platform, but where they meant to bury you, God will use to build you. Joseph came from the pit to the palace. Today, I reveal to you that your pit is preparing you for your palace. Some of us are also coming from grace, but for grace we should have been dead or destroyed. But grace found us, and today, we are coming from a different place. Paul said, "By the grace of God I am what I am.” (1 Corinthians 15:10). If you are coming from grace, never forget it. Never become proud. Never look down on others who are still struggling. Remember where God picked you from. Remember the gutter. He lifted you from. Remember the sin He forgave. When you remember where you are coming from, you will stay humble.

IV. DAUGHTER OF ZION, when you forget where you are coming from, you start thinking you made yourself. You start thinking your success is through your personal efforts, and you start despising people who are still where you used to be.

Remember that Nebuchadnezzar forgot himself and said, “Is not this great Babylon that I have built? And God humbled him to eat grass like an animal. (Daniel 4:30-33). Brother! If God had not picked you, where would you have been? Israel kept wanting to go back to Egypt because they forgot the pain of Egypt. They remembered the cucumbers and the onions, but they forgot the whips and the chains. When you forget where you are coming from, you romanticise your past. You start missing what God delivered you from. You start calling bondage “the good old days". Remember this is a DIVINE NEW DAY PROPHETIC WORD of encouragement sent forth through the authority and power of Christ Jesus and delivered to the brethren through God's Vessel, Francis Ameyibor. Yes! A person who forgets where he or she is coming from stops thanking God, stops worshipping, stops testifying, and thinks he or she deserves what they have.

V. 2026 IS OUR YEAR AND SEASON TO BE LIFTED UP—When you remember you were once lost, you will have mercy on the lost. You will not judge the prostitute, the addict, the backslider — because you remember you were once there.

PRAYER: May the God who met Hagar in the wilderness meet you in your wilderness. May He heal your past, direct your future, and take you from where you were to where you are destined to be. Go in healing, go in freedom, and go in forward motion, through Christ Jesus’ name. AMEN!

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