Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“GOD’S WILL FINDS US”

There was so much tension in the home of Abram between his wife Sarai and their Egyptian slave-girl, Hagar. Abram had taken Sarai up on her plan to have children by her handmaid. He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. This hostility got so intense between Sarai and Hagar that Hagar decided to flee from the home with nowhere to go!

Hagar was alone, sitting beside a spring in the wilderness when the Angel of the Lord found her! It’s important to note that God always knows where we are. It matters not how bad we have messed up or what kind of mess that we find ourselves in, He knows where you are, and He will come right to where you are. Our failures will not deter the will of Almighty God! The Angel of the Lord ask her where she had come from and where she was going. He already knew! However, she told Him the whole story and He spoke the will of God to her and words of comfort.

The Angel of the Lord told Hagar to go back to Abram and Sarai and submit herself to Sarai. He promised to her that she would have a multitude of descendants multiplied to her. The Angel promised her that she would have her son, and his name was to be, Ishmael. This promise came to her following her weeping and crying out.

In this prophetic promise spoken to Hagar, the Angel of the Lord speaks a truth about the descendants of Ishmael that is still true to this day. The Arab people are the descendants of Ishmael, and they are constantly at odds with the nations of the world and vice-versa. This is the spoken word of the Lord and His will was spoken to Hagar, and here we are 4000 years later, and we can see this prophetic promise still true today.

I don’t know where you are today in your spiritual journey. I don’t know what decisions you have made that have landed you into unchartered and choppy waters. Here is what I do know, His will finds us all. His ultimate will cannot be deterred by us. Trust Him and obey Him, even when it doesn’t make sense. God sees you, hears you, and knows exactly where you are!

Dr. Adrian Rogers once said: “I don’t find the will of God. The will of God finds me, and I respond to it.” (Rogers, The Adrian Rogers Legacy Bible, 2009)

Genesis 16:9—12 “⁹ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. ¹⁰ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. ¹² And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”