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Pre-New Year's Eve Special Service · December 28, 2025

Divine Advantage: God Turns Disadvantages Around

Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum · Genesis 50:20; 2 Kings 5:1-14; 2 Kings 7:3-9; Genesis 39:1-5

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"They meant it for evil, but God…" (Genesis 50:20). In this Pre-New Year's Eve special service, guest minister Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum unveils a beautiful spiritual law: every disadvantage in a believer's life becomes a hot spot for divine attention, compassion, and nearness — and God doesn't merely remove the deficit; He corrects the discrepancy, brings you to the starting line, and adds advantage overflow.

The seven movements

  1. What a disadvantage is. It puts you behind the starting line — like Jericho's pleasant city with deadly water (2 Kings 2:19-22), an unseen discrepancy spreading barrenness under a beautiful surface, until the prophet's salt healed it.
  2. The pathological disadvantage — Naaman. Great, honorable, victorious… "but he was a leper." Divine nearness in the Jordan didn't just cure him: his flesh returned like a little child's. Correction plus a boost (2 Kings 5).
  3. The biological disadvantage — Sarah and the man born blind. The visit at Mamre was for Sarah, not Abraham: God confronts the disadvantage directly and readjusts the time scales (Genesis 18; John 9).
  4. The societal disadvantage — the four lepers. Outcasts whose every option was death, yet their shuffling feet became the sound of three armies and a nation was saved. At the very place of deficiency, God gives sound (2 Kings 7:3-9; Zephaniah 3:19).
  5. "But God." The scripture never says God removed the evil — He mutated it for good. What they meant for evil becomes raw material for your testimony (Genesis 50:20).
  6. The political disadvantage — Joseph. A slave with no papers, so marked by God's nearness that a pagan master confessed "the LORD is with him" and handed everything over. Nearness is tailor-made: for Joseph it was competence; for Esther, beauty (Genesis 39).
  7. The competency disadvantage — Daniel. Refugee boys in Babylon, given knowledge and skill ten times better. When God hands you the promotion, accept it — three times over (Daniel 1:17-21).

Walk away with this

Stop treating your disadvantage as a verdict. It has become an altar of divine attention. Surrender it, welcome His compassion and nearness — and get ready to say with the whole church: after all that has happened to me, divine advantage is working for me now.

Devotionals for the week

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Monday

The Hot Spot

2 Kings 5:1 · Genesis 50:20

Naaman's record was glowing — "but he was a leper." Your "but" is not the end of your story; it is the very spot that attracts divine attention, compassion, and nearness. Today, stop hiding the disadvantage and bring it into God's presence on purpose.

Pray: Father, I surrender my 'but' to You. Let it become a hot spot for Your attention today.

Take it with you

Quotes from this message

“A disadvantage puts you behind the starting line — but in the realm of the spirit, divine advantage is a blessing God bestows on His people.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“Every spot of disadvantage is becoming a hot spot for divine attention, compassion, and nearness.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“God doesn't just remove the disadvantage — He corrects the discrepancy, brings you to the starting line, and gives you advantage overflow.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“Naaman's flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child — God took away the leprosy and added a boost.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“God did not come to visit Abraham. God came to visit Sarah — He will confront every disadvantage.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“The shuffling feet of four lepers became the sound of the armies of three nations — at the very place of your deficiency, God gives you sound.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“In the place of your shame, in the place of your disgrace, in that same place I will give you fame and name (Zephaniah 3:19).”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“They meant it for evil — but God. The scripture doesn't say God took away the evil; He mutated it for good.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“Our election does not exempt us from struggles — yet in the midst of the struggles, divine advantage works for us.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“A pagan who didn't believe in Yahweh looked at a slave boy and said, 'God is with him.' People are going to see Yahweh with you.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“After all that has happened to you, divine advantage will rewrite your story.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum
“Somebody you work under will hand over to you prematurely — may you receive it in the name of Jesus.”
Rev. Dr. Oheneba Boadum

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