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\u201cYes, he has hidden himself among the baggage\u201d <\/em>(1 Sam. 10:22).<\/p>\n If you want to experience something you\u2019ve never done, you must do something you\u2019ve never done. In his book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing His Will, Henry Blackaby writes, \u201cYou cannot go with God and stay where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n God often has to radically change us if we are going to fulfill His purposes in our lives. Saul was about to be anointed by Samuel as the first king of Israel. Samuel said to Saul, \u201cThe Spirit of the Lord will come upon you in power, and you will prophesywith them; and you will be changed into a different person\u201d (1 Sam. 10:6). Up to this point, Saul had never prophesied or led a group of people. He had also never had to be accountable to a prophet and to God for his every action.<\/p>\n Saul took a big step of faith right away and prophesied with the prophets just as Samuel said he would. How exciting that must have been. Yet, when Samuel called the entire nation of Israel together to announce him as Israel\u2019s first king in history, Saul was nowhere to be found. This part of the story is humorous. Excitement is in the air, but when they call Saul\u2019s name, he doesn\u2019t even come forward. So the people \u201cinquired further of the Lord, \u2018Has the man come here yet?\u2019 And the Lord said, \u2018Yes, he has hidden himself among the baggage’\u201d (1 Sam. 10:22).<\/p>\n I recall when God began moving me from a career in advertising to a new ministry to men and women in the workplace that involved writing and public speaking. Neither of these were my particular fort?. I was forced to do something I had never done.<\/p>\n The story of King Saul should be an encouragement to us all. God continues to pick the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. Your greatest setback can be thinking that there\u2019s no way that God can use \u201clittle me.\u201d However, the reality is that He can and will, if we respond to the new places He takes us.<\/p>\n Henry T. Blackaby, <\/span>Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing His Will<\/em><\/span> (Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1998), p. 132.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Paradigms \u201cYes, he has hidden himself among the baggage\u201d (1 Sam. 10:22). If you want to experience something you\u2019ve never done, you must do something you\u2019ve never done. In his book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing His Will, Henry Blackaby writes, \u201cYou cannot go with God and stay where you are.\u201d God often has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,8770,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-26277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-god","9":"tag-paradigms","10":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}