Welcome to Day of Destiny with Dr. Michelle Corral,
author, prophetic teacher, and pastor of Breath
of the Spirit Prophetic Word Center. Dr. Corral
can be seen weekly, nationwide, and around the
world on her weekly telecasts that air on GodTV,
Impact, and Word Network. Now, let's join Dr.
Corral by experiencing Day of Destiny, designed
with your highest destiny in mind. Now, here
is Dr. Corral. One of the most courageous brave
heroic acts in the Bible was performed by a woman
who lost her husband and her two sons Hi, I'm
Michelle Corral and that woman was Naomi Many
of us do not understand how God is the God who
can turn a mistake into a miracle, and is the
God who uses grief toward greatness. Beloved
saints, would you like to be a recipient of God's
grace that his grace would be so powerful upon
you that he would use every ounce of grief for
greatness in your life? Beloved saints, we can
see how this is done. And today I want to share
with you three powerful pillars before we go
to the Word of God live from Anaheim, California.
I want to share with you three distinct pillars
that will turn your life around. I call these
pillars the prophetic principles that turn grief
into greatness for the glory of God. The first
pillar is the pillar or prophetic principle of
how a decision, one decision can change a destiny.
You know, beloved saints, we have to be able
to make that decision that we are no longer going
to stay stuck in a place of pain in a place where
we have perhaps made a mistake or someone we
love has made a mistake or where we dwell in
the land of loss and say, I'm drowning in this
desperation. I'm in the land of loss. I'm so
broken. I can't get up. I'm so discouraged. I
don't know if there is a future. I want you to
understand that the Bible is a book that is written
to validate those that have been through the
pathways of pain in life. The Bible is a book
that shows us not just dead history, not just
events that happened. The Bible was not written
just so we know events happened. The Bible was
written so that we might have a path, God's Word,
which is available to us just as much today as
it was thousands of years ago. It is written
to validate your pain. The Almighty wants you
to know that He understands your painful plight.
He understands what you've been through. He can
turn that desperation and build upon that desperation
and use it toward great restoration in your future.
You can become a Naomi. I want you to know how
Naomi picked up the pieces of the death of her
husband, the deadly decision of her husband to
be so selfish as during a time of famine, to
withhold his ability, to share his wealth with
the poor. Eli Melech, who was known in the Bible
as a judge of Israel in the days when the judges
ruled there was a certain man from Bethlehem
Judah who went down to Moab, to Sojourn there.
There was a famine in the land. Today, beloved
people, there are famines, but also not just
famines of bread. We can have a famine in our
life, a famine that is financial, or a famine
of disappointment. There are various types of
famine. The Book of Amos speaks of a famine of
God's Word. A time when we're living with loss.
And I want you to understand how Ellie Mallott
so selfishly responded to the famine. He took
his wife and his two sons and rather than having
the ability, which he was more than able to share
his ability and abundance with others who were
starving, who needed help, rather than helping
them. He squandered what God gave him, and he
fled to the country of Moab, a place that would
never convict his conscience, a place where he
could be comfortable with compromise. And I want
you to know, Elie Melik died. And his two sons
also died. And Naomi was faced not only with
the death of her two sons and her husband, but
now she's in a place of critical crisis. She
is in a place where the loss of everything, financial,
financial loss, economic loss, the loss of her
sons, the loss of her dignity, the loss of their
position as the aristocracy of Bethlehem Judah.
now makes one decision. And that decision changed
her life. It was a decision for destiny. And
that decision for destiny is also based on another
powerful prophetic principle of how we turn grief
into greatness, how God turns grief into greatness.
And that is that destiny decision, that deliberation.
must be made based on the visitation of God.
You see, the Bible tells us that Naomi had heard
that the Lord had visited her people in giving
them bread. So I want you to understand Naomi
made a destiny decision based on the fact that
she knew visitation had come back to the land
that God had visited his people in giving them
bread. And her decision was, I'm not going to
be a spiritual agoraphobic. I am going to return
to the land. I am going to rebuild my dream.
I'm going to rebuild my husband's dream. I'm
going to return to the land of Israel. Though
I have to face many things, I have to face the
consequences of my husband's deadly decision.
I'm going to go back courageously. I'm going
to pick up the pieces because the visitation
of God compels me, because I want to be back
in God's will, because no matter what, no matter
what price I have to pay, with tears running
down my face, with the grief that I'm bearing
in my heart, with the shame that confronts me
in the land of Bethlehem, I have still made that
decision to return to Bethlehem. that I might
be able to again regain my place and my position
through the visitation of God. prophetic principles,
one deliberation that will bring us into the
decision for destiny and two, the visitation
and that visitation moving toward the move of
God, moving toward the visitation of God, the
most powerful prophetic decision, the most successful
success oriented decision a person can make.
is to move toward the anointing, to move toward
the will of God, to move toward the power of
God, to break out of the bondage of the past
into the promise. And the third pillar or the
third prophetic decision, the third prophetic
principle is that Naomi is going to make a decision
for liberation, deliberation, visitation, and
liberation. That decision for destiny is going
to break her bondages. That decision to move
toward the visitation of God, moving toward the
anointing, moving toward the power of God is
going to break bondages in our own lives. Let's
go now live to the service in Anaheim, California.
And I want you to prepare for the message. I
will not return. empty. God is not going to allow
you to return empty. Though Naomi said, I left
full, but I'm returning empty. God is going to
see to it that the Boaz blessing will not allow
you to return empty. Millions of people all over
the world suffer various levels of grief, despair,
and discouragement. Did you know that it is possible
to come back after a crisis? Today, join Dr.
Corral as she brings the powerful prophetic parallels
of how we can be like Ruth. We can be like Naomi.
We can come back after a crisis and we can see
that the God of Israel is a God who is a God
of rewards. He will reward those who show kindness.
Join us today as we go live in the service with
Dr. Corral. We have a choice in the matter. You
see, beloved, let me share with you. Naomi made
the decision not to be a spiritual agoraphobic.
You say, what's an agoraphobic? An agoraphobic
is someone who never leaves their room. An agoraphobic
is someone who is afraid to go outside or go
to a new place. They don't wanna go, they're
afraid. An agoraphobic is someone, I remember
years ago, I heard about this beautiful, famous
actress from way back in the 40s. She would never
go out in public because she was afraid. She
spent the rest of her life in a room and in a
house because she could not leave that place.
God understands why we can't leave a certain
place. We're stuck. We have anxieties. We have
fears. We're afraid to let go. You see, some
of us are stuck in that grief. And Naomi... was
so intensely affected by sorrow that she wanted
an identity change. When she went back to Bethlehem,
the women were moved and they said, is this Naomi?
She said, don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara.
For the Almighty, has dealt very bitterly with
me. You know, Naomi, obviously from blaming,
putting the blame on herself, the Almighty has
dealt bitterly with me. It's as if, and you can
see from the context, she is blaming herself
for her son's deaths. She's blaming herself for
her husband's death. She said the Almighty has
dealt very bitterly with me. Don't call me Naomi.
Call me Mara. Mara means bitter waters. Some
of us have allowed trials, tribulations, rejection,
hurt, what people think of us, what people have
said to us, to give us a new identity. But I've
got a word for you. You don't need to stay stuck
in spiritual agoraphobia. God wants to bring
you out now. He wants to bring you to your true
self and your true identity. Somebody say I'm
coming out of this. Deliberation. Say it with
me. Deliberation. Divine deliberation. You're
gonna make a decision tonight to come out of
the maze of Moab. The second is the only way
you can get out. of the maze of Moab and make
a decision that will change your destiny, you're
not gonna stay stuck. You're coming out. You're
not gonna allow the maze of Moab. What is a maze?
A maze is a place that you're caught in that
you can't find an exit. Some of us are seeking
for exits and we can't find it because we really
want to stay in Moab It's safety for us. It's
a coping mechanism, but it's a sick one It's
very bad when we can't get closure and so we
blame ourselves It's very bad when we put a heavy
guilt trip on our own self that were not even
in the eyes of God were not guilty, but she had
enough chutzpah. And what gave her the chutzpah
to leave was that notice. Verse six. She arose
with her daughters -in -law that she might return
from the country of Moab. And the Bible says
for she had heard in the country of Moab that
the Lord had this Visited his people in giving
them bread. She said God is in the land I'm going
back. I'm going for a visitation. I'm moving
toward the presence of God I'm moving toward
the anointing. I'm moving toward a visitation.
Are you hearing me? Say this with me deliberation
and visitation The visitation is the move of
God in our lives. And the third one is determination.
As she started to leave, she realized, I can't
take these girls with me. She's lost everything.
I have to go back to the place that my husband
shamed the name of the family. once the most
aristocratic family in Judea, in Bethlehem. Now,
facing the people that her husband let down by
his selfishness because he went to Moab to spare
his wealth. He went to Moab because he didn't
want the paupers begging at the door, little
children saying, feed us, feed us, we're hungry.
Help us, Ellie Malik, help my children, they're
gonna die. No. He needed a place where he would
not be convicted with his conscience. He needed
a place like Moab where the culture agreed with
his behavior, where they have no conscience.
Are you with me, saints? And so now she has to
go back to the village of Bethlehem where her
husband was once a judge and face the people.
But she's so determined. She's so determined
to get back into God's will. She's courageous.
I want you to know what courage really is. Courage
isn't just standing in front of a firing squad.
Courage is standing up to say, I'm going to do
God's will no matter what it costs me. Courage
is no matter what I have to face, what kind of
personal loss I may have to go through. Whatever
I feel whatever I have to let go of in order
to get back in the will of God I'm going to do
it. Are you with me? That takes courage Put your
hands up and say I want to be bold and get back
in the will of God. I want to be bold So she
realized I can't take the girls and She actually
shows us her coping mechanism We all have coping
mechanisms when we go through tragedy We're not
perfect and God doesn't expect us to be some
of our coping mechanisms are very very toxic
Sometimes we use anger we blame others Sometimes
we have behaviors That we're trying to cope with
something that we never dealt with there was
no closure on it And so we we develop Coping
mechanisms just to deal and some of us in our
coping mechanisms blame ourselves When there's
no closure on a death no closure on the death
of our sons. She had nowhere to turn but to say
it's my fault And she realized, I can't take
these girls because it's because they married
Moabitish wives that God has struck them dead.
That's what she believed. She even told them.
If you look at the word of God, the word of God
says, she said, turn back, my daughters. In verse
eight and nine, she says, turn back. Then in
verse 11, She says again, turn back, turn again.
She's telling them both to leave. And in verse
12, she says, turn again, go home. What are you
going to get out of me? I have nothing to give
you. I have no more wealth. I have no more reputation.
I have no more sons. Go home. They didn't leave.
And again, in verse 13, She's got to tell them
like it is she she lets the real truth out She
says it grieves me much That for your sake chapter
13 verse 2 or the last line chap Excuse me chapter
1 verse 13 last line. It grieves me much That
the hand of the Lord has come out against me
for your sakes You're the ones that made the
hand of the Lord come against me. Boy, that's
an insult, isn't it? She's saying, you're the
cause of my sorrow. You're the cause of this
grief. You're the reason my sons are dead. Because
I made the huge mistake. I didn't stop my husband.
But could she have really stopped her husband?
Could she have really stopped the judge? who
made a choice that seemed right unto him, but
the end thereof was death. Could she have really
turned him around? Could she have really stopped
her sons from marrying Moabitish wives? No, she
couldn't have. And weren't they adults? Didn't
they have a conscience? Weren't they raised to
know right and wrong? Why is Naomi blaming herself
for their deaths? She's blaming because she's
using guilt as a coping mechanism. Some of us
don't know what life is like unless we feel bad.
Some of us don't know how to deal with life.
to let God just give us a beautiful life. We
don't know how to do it because we think we deserve
something. We are blaming ourselves for something.
Are you hearing me, beloved saints? Are you hearing
me? And so we see these three powerful decisions,
these three powerful pillars, deliberation, a
decision that can change the destiny, visitation,
move toward the visitation of God. And thirdly,
determination. She's willing to go it alone.
You have to be willing to get out of spiritual
agoraphobia. With all your might, you have to
push yourself. You have to make the decision,
I'm not gonna stay stuck here. I'm going on to
what God has for me. Beloved, today I wanna ask
you, are you ready for the move of God in your
life? Are you ready to make the decisions that
Ruth... and Naomi made. Ruth made a decision
of selfless altruistic, selfless kindness, selfless
hesed. Hesed is the action to give love and never
expect anything in return. Heavenly Father, today
I pray for those who are going to be recipients
of your grace to put the curse in reverse. I
break the power of the maze of Moab off the lives
of your people. I release the anointing of destiny
being released through love increased. In the
mighty name of Jesus, may those that are viewing
this telecast today make a decision to walk in
love, to walk in selfless love. O God, that destiny
will be released through love increased. Heavenly
Father, as we raise our hands toward you, you
are the God who is the restorer of our life and
the nourisher of our old age, just as you restored
Naomi's life, just as you gave Ruth double for
her shame. and rewarded her for those actions
of kindness. I pray for everyone on this line
to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
the outpouring of the grace to show love, even
when love is not being shown to us. The grace
to administer kindness, even when we have not
had kindness shown to us. The grace to stretch
the extra mile, to be a Naomi. to be an Elisha,
to go the extra mile, to pour ourselves out for
others in Jesus' name. And if you have never
made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, and
today you are facing decisions, you are faced
with grief, you are faced with turmoil, you are
faced with the temptation of giving up. Don't
give up. Know the God that you serve is waiting
to wrap his arms around you. And if you've never
met Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life, you
can do that now. Please say this prayer with
me wherever you are around the world. Jesus loves
you and he can give you the same blessing he
gave Naomi. You can pick up the pieces. You can
come back after a crisis. through His love, through
His strength, through His friendship, He will
guide you through. Say this prayer with me, Dear
Jesus, come into my heart, be the Lord of my
life, wash me clean from sin. Jesus, I accept
you as my personal Lord and Savior. I ask you
to deliver me from sin, from bondage. I want
to break out of the maze of Moab. I want to come
into my destiny, just as Naomi was willing to
walk forward toward her destiny. No matter what
she had to face, give me the grace to do so.
Also Lord use me for your glory use me in ministry.
I receive you as my savior I receive forgiveness
of sins in Jesus name and everyone said amen
and amen Beloved saints I want you to know today
that if you are viewing this telecast you can
go to our Facebook page at dr. Michelle And if
you want to connect with this ministry, you can
go to breathofthespirit .org. That's breathofthespirit
.org. And for those of you viewing this telecast
around the world, join us for our 5 a .m. prayer
meetings every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
5 a .m. Pacific Standard Time. We love you. God
bless you. And now here is our announcer. Thank
you for joining us today on Day of Destiny. We
invite you to our website at mydayofdestiny .com
where you can easily access other podcasts and
obtain your copy of Dr. Corral's latest book,
Secrets of the Anointing. Also, we want to take
this moment to invite you to engage in extending
your hand of kindness by planting your seed or
offering for multitudes that include orphans,
providing water wells, providing medical supplies,
clinics, feeding programs, and many other services
to the Suffering Church and through efforts of
evangelism worldwide. Just go to our website
and click the donate button. or text to give.
Text HESED to 7797. That's HESED to 77977. You
are also invited to visit Dr. Michelle Corral
Facebook or Instagram. We look forward to having
you encounter the anointing with us on our next
Day of Destiny podcast.