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
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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