“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” Romans 8:28.

“¹ Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
² Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. ³ And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. ⁴ Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. ⁵ For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
⁶ So the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name. ⁷ And He said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. Now drink no wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
⁸ Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, and said, “O my Lord, please let the Man of God whom You sent come to us again and teach us what we shall do for the child who will be born.”
⁹ And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. ¹⁰ Then the woman ran in haste and told her husband, and said to him, “Look, the Man who came to me the other day has just now appeared to me!”
¹¹ So Manoah arose and followed his wife. When he came to the Man, he said to Him, “Are You the Man who spoke to this woman?”
And He said, “I am.”
¹² Manoah said, “Now let Your words come to pass! What will be the boy’s rule of life, and his work?”
¹³ So the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. ¹⁴ She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her let her observe.”
¹⁵ Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain You, and we will prepare a young goat for You.”
¹⁶ And the Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Though you detain Me, I will not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord.)
¹⁷ Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass we may honor You?”
¹⁸ And the Angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask My name, seeing it is wonderful?”
¹⁹ So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on— ²⁰ it happened as the flame went up toward heaven from the altar—the Angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. ²¹ When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord.
²² And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”
²³ But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time.”
²⁴ So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. ²⁵ And the Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him at Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol” Judges 13:1-25.

When God tells you to stop certain things in your life, it’s not for you to mourn or grieve over not having them. Rejoice! Because it’s for the greater purposes of God that He insists that you cease all activity with them. God doesn’t want His promises for your life to be hindered by what’s in your way down the line later on in life. Whether it be food/diet, clothing, shelter etc. If God is needing you to “change your palate”, you can believe it’s for YOUR preservation and the preservation of His promises through and for you!

God knows all and knows how things would play out if you continued to go any further with it, so God tells you to stop what your doing in a particular area that He may get the glory! He needs you to live as well, what His plans are upon the earth.

Let’s look at Samson’s Mother. Samson’s Mother was visited by an Angel of The Lord that told her before she was to conceive, that she couldn’t have any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean and that his hair was never to be cut. When Samson’s Mother complied to the request, she conceived and bore Samson!

If Samson’s Mother had not turned down her cup against wine and strong drink,or hadn’t decided to not eat the unacceptable and did it any way, the PROMISE of God for her womb wouldn’t have been successful and may not have come to pass through her. Samson’s Mother did her part of the plan and God did the rest!

Sometimes, you’ll have to let go of what you’re used to doing, to reap the harvest of greater in God!

Trust God!… He knows what He’s doing.

Obedience is better than sacrifice.

By the grace of God,
– Apostle Jennifer Hobbs

Apostle Jennifer Hobbs is a non-traditional, remnant co-founder and co-leader of Whole Armour of God Ministries International. This ministry, based out of Northeastern Pennsylvania, seeks to not only help bring healing and deliverance through the guidance of the Holy Ghost, while also building churches (people) in accordance to Matthew 16:16-18. The ministry specializes in not only deliverance but demonology as well; with an understanding of the principles and principalities that rule this world (Ephesians 6:10-20) and how to best defeat them in Jesus’ name. The ministry has been blessed to be operating under the Apostolic and Prophetic anointing with signs and wonders following (Mark 16:17), with the ultimate goal of lifting up the name of Jesus and proclaiming the Gospel accordingly (Ezekiel 2, 2 Corinthians 12:12).