DT 8:2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

The Israelites first had to live as slaves in Egypt all of their lives, then just when they thought that life was going to get better they got stuck in the wilderness for forty years living off of some strange bread that falls from the sky, and running around in circles. Many of us have lived lives that have somewhat mirrored theirs, with one tough break after another, and when you look back at the long string of denials, restrictions, rejections, and seeming lack of blessing by God, satan can try to convince you that you are just cursed, and that nothing is ever going to get any better because God must not be on your side like He is with others.

HEB 3:7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert.

If you give into the lie that God is against you and that you must be cursed, then it is easy to get a real bad attitude, and to harden your heart towards God. We can start rebelling and accusing Him of all kinds of things that are not even His fault. See, I know something. One night while praying about this issue, this is what the Lord showed me. If you were God and you needed to super-bless a large group of people to bring in this last harvest, what kind of life would you need them to live in order to prepare them for it? Right, a super-loser looking life that creates a wealth of humility, experience, and compassion to go help others with.

NU 12:3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

Now how do you suppose that Moses got to become the most humble man in the earth? From being blessed and from being "the head" all the time? Or from God allowing Him to be constantly humbled and to get "the tail end" of things all the time? If your life is riddled with what looks like one humiliation and holdback after another, while everyone else around you seems to get things more easily, it's likely that God allowed your life to be purposely limited in order to prepare you for a day when you would walk in His limitless power and favor. God just wants people to see that He alone is responsible for the grace and blessings that come.

LK 1:48 for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.

The above statement was written by the future mother of Jesus Christ, but have you ever wondered why her life was always in such a humbled state? Those that need to be prepared for God's greatness will oftentimes be denied any part of what the world considers greatness and look like they are a cursed loser right up until the point that God says they are ready to be promoted and blessed. Even your prayers can seem like they are all just going into Gods "spam" box, especially right before your time of breakthrough and empowerment comes; but I can assure you that your day to become the head and no longer the tail is indeed coming!

DT 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

One time right after I had become a Christian I was invited to go to a crusade where a guy named Mario Murillo was preaching. I had already had a horrible cursed-like life, and I had just spent a weekend getting bombarded spiritually and failing at every turn. As I sat there in the balcony listening to the preaching, I was actually secretly thinking that maybe I was just too wicked and evil to be a Christian. Just then out of literally thousands of people there, he pointed me out and I thought he was going to tell everyone what a sinner I was. But he said this three times "God has something great in store for you, but you must stay very humble."

JDG 6:13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, `Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian."

I never forgot that word, but my life just seemed to get even more restricted and void of God's blessing after that. I had to chuckle about the part about remaining humble because there was certainly nothing I could think of to date, to be anything but humbled about. You may have seen a whole string of what just seems like false starts, spiritual dead ends, and situations where you end up looking like a big failure and loser in the end over and over and over again, and you may have even gotten to the point where you have now become cynical about ever being blessed by God at all. But if God said it, then expect it to come to pass.

JOS 14:11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I'm just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.

You might be saying "Well I am just too old now, and it is too late for God to bless and/or use me". Really? Caleb was eighty five years old with the supernatural strength and energy of a forty five year old (or even younger). Caleb even asked for the "mountain country" to be his inheritance. He was not too old to climb mountains, and you won't be either, if you hang on to your faith and continue to trust God for what He's promised you. Look at Abraham and Sarah, they were not exactly young when their promise came. We can become so negative in our thinking if our life has been full of let downs, so we must trust God no matter what.

JER 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

God's kingdom is packed full of secret spiritual Cinderella's right now who are right at the brink of being presented to this world with the power of Jesus clothing them. God has had plans all along of blessing and vindicating you before all of those who have judged you as a super-loser. God always eventually vindicates Himself in someones life that has served Him faithfully, and he will do the same for you if you don't throw in the towel and just give up. You may have felt more like "Curserella" than Cinderella these days, but your "Prince" Has only been waiting for your life and heart to be fully prepared to walk in His blessing responsibly.

GE 40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

God knows you have been faithful in your gifting and calling, even if it looks like you have been met with people seemingly overlooking and denying you all the time. But like Joseph above, the day came for him to be promoted, and you'd better believe that he needed every bit of the humbling and restrictions that he endured all of his life to handle the lofty position that God had placed him in. You too will need all of the tough, humiliating, things that have shaped your heart in order to stay humble ahead. And know this, that you are God's "Super Winner", and not a super-loser like you may have thought. Your day of promotion has come!

PS 71:20 Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. 21 You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.