RETARDED
PROGRESS
Memorise:
For when for the time you ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you
again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such
as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Hebrew 5:12
Read:
Genesis 49:1-4, Bible in one year: Nehemiah 10:1-12:26, John 8:12-30
A state of progress in which forward or
upward movement is so slow, sluggish or negligible, to the point of becoming an
embarrassment, can be referred to as retarded progress. When a 13-year old
teenager is still being fed with a feeding bottle or is behaving like a two-year
old child, growth in such a case is referred to as retarded. Sometimes, it is
better not to make any progress at all then to make the type of progress that
brings embarrassment. Retarded progress can also be seen as a trapped destiny.
When Jacob was about to die, he called all his children together and began to
make certain pronouncements over each of them depending on how they had lived
their lives. When he was the one supposed to receive the double portion
generational blessing, it would be denied him. Jacob categorically stated that
he would not excel. From that day, the future of Reuben that looked so bright
and promising became bleak. His destiny was trapped.
I met a particular man of God sometime
ago. We had last seen each other some five years before. I asked him, “How are
things?” “All is well” he replied. “How is your church?” I asked. “Oh, the
church is good”, he said l, and so I asked, “What is your attendance like
presently?” desiring to know how the church was actually doing. “We are now
about 105”, he replied. Surprised, I said “I thought the last time we met some
five years ago; you said your attendance was about 100? So five years later, it
has only grown by 5 people? Even if you were winning a soul per month that
period, you should have added at least 60 members.” Then he replied, “Please
pray for me; I think I am suffering from the spirit of retardation.
One unfortunate thing about retardation
is that in some cases, because of the negligible growth or improvement that has
been recorded, the victim may be considered to have made some progress. As a
result of this false progress, consideration will not be given to putting on
the type of effort that would have been required to salvage the situation if
there was no progress at all. Is your progress being impeded? Is your destiny
boxed? Is the sight progress you have recorded becoming an embarrassment to
you? Call on the Lord today for help. Every power that has retarded your
progress or destiny is destroyed today in the mighty Name of Jesus.
Prayer
point
Father,
fast-forward my progress that has been slowed down by the enemy today.
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