"If you think you are 'over the hill', there is more! If you think you are finished, there is more! If you think you are done, there is more! If you think it's over, there is more! There is more that I want to show you going forward! There is more that I want to do in your life going forward! So, take heart and be encouraged!"
What is the definition of 'over the hill'? It means 'past a person's prime', like a climber of mountain who has reached the mountaintop, and is now descending. This term is used for people who think they are going downhill in their lives.
I'm going to cite two examples: Elijah and Moses. Both of them went through this. Both of them thought they were going downhill in their lives. But God! The Lord instead told them: "It's not over yet. There is more coming in your life!"
Let's go all the way to Elijah now. In 1 Kings 19, after the great exploits, signs and wonders done by the Lord through Elijah, King Ahab told his wife Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how Elijah had executed all the prophets of Baal. Jezebel then sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them (the prophets of Baal) by tomorrow about this time." Jezebel gave this threat against Elijah and wanted to kill Elijah. That's when Elijah arose and ran for his life.
Elijah then prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!"
You see, Elijah wanted to give up. He thought that's all the Lord had for him. He thought he's finished. He thought he's done. He thought it's over. But God! That's when the Lord showed up to Elijah through an angel. This angel touched him and said to him, "Arise and eat." Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank. But he laid down again.
The angel then came back another time, touched him again, and said to him, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." So he ate and drank again, and this time, he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God. There, he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place. The Lord then said to Elijah, and He meant, "Why are you lying down there? I have more things in store for you. There is more!"
You know what? The rest is history. Elijah was reinvigorated, and he never looked back ever since. The Lord gave him further instructions from then on, and he continued to walk in the calling the Lord had for him, and he moved on to do many more great exploits!
Beloved of God, if you are in the same situation like Elijah those days, and you want to give up, or you think you are finished, the Lord your God has these words for you: "There is more! There is more coming in your life! There is more good things coming in your life!"
Let's move on to Moses now. In Exodus 3, after he had run away from the land of Egypt into the wilderness, from being a 'somebody' in Egypt to being a 'nobody' in the desert, and while he was tending the flock of his father-in-law (Jethro), the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. When Moses turned aside to look, the Lord then called to him, "Moses, Moses!" The Lord also said, "Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
But Moses said to the Lord, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"
Fast forward to Exodus 4, Moses also said, "But suppose they (the Israelites) will not believe me or listen to my voice. Suppose they say, 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'"
The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" In other words, the Lord was asking him, "What is it that you are holding now?" Moses answered, "Oh, just an old shepherd's rod."
The Lord then said, "Cast it on the ground." So Moses cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it. The Lord said further, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail" (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), "that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
You see, over here, Moses wasn't convinced if his own people, the Israelites, would even listen to him! But the Lord was there to assure him.
And again, the rest is history. Moses didn't look back ever since. Moses went on to be greatly used by the Lord to set the Israelites free!
You see, both Elijah and Moses had gone through a time when they thought they're finished. They thought it's over. They thought the Lord's done with them. They thought the Lord had bypassed them.
But God! The Lord had another idea. The Lord had a new purpose for them. The Lord even had greater things in store for them. They didn't look back ever since!
One similarity between the two of them (Elijah and Moses) is that they were on the verge of giving up their calling in their lives, but only for the Lord to say, "There is more!"
Beloved of God, whatever situation you may be facing now, I believe this is what the Lord is saying to you as well: "There is more! There is more that I want to show you! There is more that I want to do in your life! Hang on there! Hang on strong! Look to Me, and I will show you many more things that you know not of yet!"
Receive these words by faith in your life.
Hallelujah!
