{"id":437,"date":"2019-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/the-law-of-location\/"},"modified":"2019-12-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:00:00","slug":"the-law-of-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-law-of-location\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God created the Garden of Eden, placed Adam in it, and told him to <i>\u2018work it\u2019.<\/i> God said, <i>\u2018Be fruitful and multiply.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis 1:22 NKJV)  In other words, \u2018Be successful.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>But notice, there\u2019s a definite sequence. <i>First:<\/i> God prepares a place for you. <i>Second:<\/i> He puts you in it. <i>Third:<\/i> He tells you to <i>\u2018work it\u2019. Fourth:<\/i> He says, \u2018I want you to succeed.\u2019 This is called \u2018the law of location\u2019. You only flourish in the place where you belong, doing what God has called and equipped you to do. And you\u2019ll have to work at it, so don\u2019t expect it to be quick and easy. The law of location is evident throughout the Scriptures. <\/p>\n<p>After his life-changing encounter with God, we read, <i>\u2018Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, \u201cIt is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Genesis 32:30 NIV) That\u2019s when God changed his name from Jacob, which means <i>\u2018deceiver\u2019<\/i>, to Israel, which means <i>\u2018a prince with God\u2019.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>God spoke to the prophet Elijah in the middle of a famine and said, <i>\u2018Go at once to Zarephath\u2026I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.\u2019<\/i> (1 Kings 17:9 NIV) <\/p>\n<p>Eden was the place of <i>fruitfulness.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Peniel was the place of radical <i>change.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Zarephath was the place of divine <i>supply.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Question: are you in the place God wants you to be? If you\u2019re not sure, talk to Him today. <i>\u2018I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah 48:17 NKJV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God created the Garden of Eden, placed Adam in it, and told him to \u2018work it\u2019. God said, \u2018Be fruitful and multiply.\u2019 (Genesis 1:22 NKJV) In other words, \u2018Be successful.\u2019 But notice, there\u2019s a definite sequence. First: God prepares a place for you. Second: He puts you in it. Third: He tells you to \u2018work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}