Why do we need divine guidance? For security of destiny! Your destiny remains utterly vulnerable when you are walking outside divine plan. For the forty years that the children of Israel traveled through the wilderness, none among them was feeble, and their legs were not swollen. This was because they were constantly moving with the cloud, which was their covering during the day and a pillar of fire in the night.

As a result, no killer beast could dare come near them. Not even mo people that traveled! t of the three million people that traveled! Not one person was feeble among them, because of the cloud of glory that guided and covered them!

According to Numbers 9: 15-23, the cloud moved from day to day. Every time the cloud moved, the people moved, and wherever it stopped, they stopped. In the same manner, keeping pace with the movement of the cloud is the only guarantee we have for the security of our destiny. Note that it is not enough to get results; it is much more important to secure your destiny.

Following God’s leading also defines the limit of our destiny. God said if you will diligently hearken to His voice and observe to do all that He tells you to do, He will set you up on high above all nations of the earth (Deut. 28:1). This is provided you walk intensely in His plan as it is unfolded to you phase by phase. God said to Abraham in Genesis 13:14-15:

“..Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.”

Where you are now is not your end. He said you will still bring forth fruit even in old age (Ps. 92:14). That means God is not done with you until you draw your last breath. I don’t know where you are today, but God is asking me to tell you that you are due for a move onto the next level. Abraham might perhaps have died as a pauper if God did not guide him on how to expand his vision. God’s leading always lands one on the high places of the earth. In Deuteronomy 32:9-14, the Bible says:

“For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”

They got to the high places of life not by following the vogue or by zeal or passion, but by the leading of the Lord. Jesus said, “I can of my own self do nothing.” Two thousand years alter, because He was led by the Lord, He is still leading the world today!

On October 1, 1983, I went to a youth camp ground to have a quite time with God. As I worshipped Him in the Spirit, lifting up holy hands in worship, the Lord said to me very clearly, “I am the Lord that leadeth thee. I am committed to leading you, if you will only be committed to following Me.” I said, “Lord, I am committed to following You, so keep leading me.” I then closed my Bible and went home. And like a sheep, I have kept following Him ever since. You have to become like a sheep before you can be shepherded.

There is a high calling upon your life; God has reserved the high places of the earth for you. All you need do to arrive there is to subject yourself to His guidance. Too many are busy leading themselves; no wonder they suffer crises upon crises. “He led them about…” For over twenty-seven years, I have allowed God to dictate every step of my life. I have never been attracted to do whatever He has not commanded.

Following divine guidance supernaturally distinguishes the follower. Jesus said in Matthew 4:19, “Follow me, and I will make you…” That is, “Your making is in following Me. Allow Me to lead you, and I will make you what I have created you to be.” When you are following His plan, you commit His integrity to back you up, because “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (I Thess. 5:24). When God is backing you, the front is where you are headed for, because it is the backing of the Lord that makes front liners.

“How does following God distinguish the follower?” you may wonder. The Bible says in Exodus 23:20,

“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.” 

When you are following His plan, His angel is assigned to accompany you; he is to keep you on the journey, so that no assault of the enemy comes near you or molests you. As a result, things go marvelously well with you.

The truth is that God had a plan for your life before He ever formed you in your mother’s womb. He set you apart for a divine purpose on the earth even before you were born. However, you only stepped into that divine plan after you were saved. In God’s plan, not everyone is designed to be in business; neither is everyone expected to be in government or ministry.

God has a unique plan for each one of us, and our destiny is anchored to that plan. Whatever God has assigned you to do holds a future and is what will bring you utmost fulfillment. So, locate and enjoy it.

I once read about the owner of Service Master, Inc. He was quoted as saying, “I believe Service Master is a ministry.” The company has about 200,000 employees! No wonder the bible says, 

“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and WHATSOEVER HE DOETH SHALL PROSPER” (P. 1:3).

God is saying to you now, “Whatever I have assigned you to do has a future, whether as a business person or an academic; all you have to do is settle down and work with excitement!” When you obey this injunction, a time will come when God will make you a man that generations yet unborn will celebrate.

Business was my choice before I heard His call into full-time ministry. I would probably never have made as much mark in the business world as I have done in ministry today. That is the beauty of divine guidance.

When you follow your choice instead of His will for your life, rather than end up in glory, what you get is shame and lack of fulfillment.

In Joel 2:2-8, the Bible describes the emergence of an end-time army, a group of people that cannot be stopped or resisted. It is an assault group handpicked by God to operate here on earth. Enlistment in this army is by vision. Knowing your assignment determines your attainment in life. It is, therefore, imperative that you discover the particular assignment God has for you.

The Lord said to me sometime ago, “If you don’t live for something, you don’t become something.” He was emphasizing to me the need to be single-eyed. To live for one purpose is to become outstanding. That purpose to live for is wrapped up in divine plan, which only God can unveil to you.

Yes, God has a master plan for each one of us; but it is our responsibility to get the details of the plan from heaven at every stage that we get to. This is because vision is unfolded in phases. God rarely shows all that there is to His plan at once…

This text is an extract from the book “IN PURSUIT OF VISION” written by David O. Oyedepo. 
We invite you to read the following article “THE VOICE OF THE SPIRIT“.

SECURITY OF DESTINY. SECURITY OF DESTINY.