Submit to the Process

Call to Prayer

Topic: Submit to the Process

By: Daniel Peter

Date: 19.05.2026

“At the same time he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe, so he sent for him frequently and talked with him.”
— Acts 24:26 NIV

 

Every new level in our relationship with God requires a certain level of spiritual maturity to sustain it. Usually, God takes us through a process so that we can gain the spiritual maturity needed to maintain the new level He has prepared for us.

The Scriptures are replete with examples of God taking men through a process before bringing them to a place of exaltation. Before Joseph became prime minister, he went through the process of being rejected by his brothers, sold as a slave in Egypt, and later became a prisoner. The same was true for David, who was despised by his family and persecuted by King Saul, whom he eventually replaced as king over Israel. The suffering that preceded the glory in these cases was intentional by God to form His image in them.

Many Christians reject the process (the suffering that precedes glory) without even realising it. In doing so, they miss out on the glory. Someone once said that if Joseph had run away from prison, he would have returned home with a testimony, not knowing he had just missed out on becoming prime minister. One individual who was faced with the choice of either rejecting the process or submitting to it was Apostle Paul.

It had always been in the heart of Apostle Paul to get to Rome (see Romans 1:8–10), the place where his ministry would have its greatest impact. In fact, many scholars believe that we may not have known so much about Apostle Paul if he had not succeeded in reaching Rome. While in prison, Jesus Christ appeared to him and promised that he would testify of Him in Rome, just as he had done in Jerusalem (Acts 23:11). The vehicle God had in mind to take him there was the legal trials he was enduring, which kept him in prison in Israel for over two years.

While he was in prison, it was stated that Governor Felix hoped to receive a bribe from Paul so he could release him from prison (Acts 24:26). If Paul had bribed him, he would have been released from prison, thereby rejecting the process of God. But he chose not to sin and instead submitted to the process. As he submitted, he was eventually taken to Rome, where he was given a private residence with security personnel guarding him while he fulfilled his ministry, free from the persecution of the Jews (Acts 28:30). It was there that he made his greatest impact.

If Paul had gone to Rome by his own means, he would not have enjoyed the privileges that came with God’s process. In Rome, he was kept under guard and given a private residence, which provided him with protection and freedom to carry out his ministry. Had he arrived there on his own, he likely would not have survived the intense persecution from the Jews who constantly sought to kill him. The process God allowed him to go through was not only meant to take him to Rome, but also to preserve and position him for effective ministry there.

The devil will bring opportunities for you to come out of God’s process prematurely. By rejecting his offers and submitting to the process, we position ourselves to attain God’s best for us.

Prayer Points

Let us thank God for His word today. Let us ask Him for the grace to submit to the process so that we will not miss out on the glory.

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