It's Graduation Time

Psalm 75:6-7
⁶For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
 ⁷But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

God deals with us according to where we are in our faith. If he spoke it, He will do itand will bring it to pass.

Numbers 23:19
¹⁹God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

God loves to promote but He will not promote if you are not worthy. You have to do something to position yourself. Promotion = advancement in rank. If you want promotion in your marriage there can't be arguments of the same thing year after year. you have to be in agreement (Amos 3:3).

Gen 2:24
²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Find a common ground between you and your spouse.

The king promoted Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego:

Daniel 3:23-30
²³And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
 ²⁴Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
 ²⁵He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
 ²⁶Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
 ²⁷And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
 ²⁸Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
 ²⁹Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
 ³⁰Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

People have to see God is with you. That's how you will get them to be quiet. Let God show out for you. If everything you touch is dying then no one wants you. Don't be a disease to the team.

There is a difference between promotion and graduation:

1. 1. God can promote whomever he wants to. He sees what you can't see. To graduate you have to do something. When you graduate it means that you have completed a course of study. You have to show up for the battle. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7). You can't go back and forth in your decision to be faithful.

    2.  When you graduate you walk across the stage and the person who says your name is saying that you
         have completed all of the requirements. The person who has the mic does not mention how many times
         you have failed along the way. When you graduate God makes it look like you've never failed. God
         doesn't concentrate on your failures. The focus is that you've made it. Don't bring up other's failures
         and don't let people bring up your failures. We should talk about what's on the way. People may look
         at you and wonder how you made it.

   3.  With the caps the tassel is turned from one side to another and is turned at the end of the graduation. It
        symbolizes the end of the graduation. Some may frown upon throwing the cap in the air because it is not
       considered classy.  Go ahead and  take that cap off and throw it.  It symbolizes that you are         
       throwing  mess back at the devil.

  4. There will always be people who are supposed to walk with you but they are not allowed to walk. They
     knew they wouldn't walk but was trying to get serious at the last minute. But they have the
      opportunity to go to summer school to make it up and graduate. You may feel that you should have
      graduated but it may take a little longer and more work.  Watch God put the super in front of natural.

Prepare yourself. God will cause some people to walk in some things they've never walked in before because they went back and dealt with unfinished business. Better is on the way. You just have to do your part.