07/04/2026
Chapter Two Episode Three
Title: Are You In or Out?
Food for Thought: Until you step into your rightful place of destiny, you cannot access the fullness of what God has ordained for your life.
Subtitle: The Mystery of the Appointed Place Continued
They must have been hoping to return to their land multiplied with both human and material blessings, but that was far from their experience. Instead of multiplication, they gradually began to decrease, as death took a constant toll on them.
Of all four family members who embarked on the journey, only one remained alive.
Who knows what would have happened had the only surviving woman not made up her mind in time to leave the country and return home?
The family missed the divine location and consequently lost their divine security. This left them vulnerable and made them easy targets for the enemy.
Hear what Naomi said about her experience in that land:
Ruth 1:12–13:
“Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.”
When anyone misses out on divine location, their experience will always be as if the hand of the Lord is against them. This is because such a one is already sailing against the wind.
Let us look further at her description of what happened to her:
Ruth 1:19–21:
“So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi? And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?”
Naomi thought that the Almighty dealt bitterly with her. She did not realize that it was her being out of the divine location that made a mess of her destiny.
She went out full and came back empty because she did not pay attention to the details of the movement of the cloud.
Friend, there is a place allocated for you in destiny. If you have not located it, you will be missing out on the presence of God, and your experience could be like that of Naomi.
It is your responsibility, therefore, to locate your own appointed place and plug yourself into it. If you are not in your own appointed place, you are definitely without and far away from your God-ordained destiny.
This is too risky an adventure for you to experience.
It is my prayer that the God of all grace will open you up from today to receive the full revelation of your God-ordained place, which will lead you to the recovery of your divine allocation in Christ.