03/08/2026 – Day 310 – “The Josiah Principle” / The Mission: “Take God’s Word today and obey it. By obeying the revealed will of God, you will be led into the unrevealed will of God – your destiny.” / Check out the supporting bible verses text below!
“We sat in the shade of an olive tree on a warm breezy afternoon. “Josiah,” said the teacher, “was one of the most righteous kings ever to sit on the throne of David. In pursuing God’s will, he went up to the high place of Beth El, to break down the altars of the pagan gods. While doing so, something caught his attention – a grave. It was then that a mystery of centuries was revealed. The grave was that of a prophet who, centuries earlier, had come to Beth El with a prophecy: A man named Josiah would, one day, come to that same place and do exactly as Josah had just done. But Josiah had no idea of the prophecy. He came there that day simply to the will of God. And yet he did exactly as was prophesied centuries before he existed … the outworking of destiny.”
“How does that work? I asked. “Without knowing the prophecy, he fulfilled it. How do you fulfill God’s plan for your life … your destiny?”
“How does that work?” I asked. “Without knowing the prophecy, he fulfilled it. How do you fulfill God’s plan for your life… your destiny?”
“I would call it ‘the Josiah Principle,’ ” he said. “Which is what?”
“How did Josiah, without knowing the prophecy, end up fulfilling it?”
“By following the way of righteousness?”
“Yes,” said the teacher. “By following the will of God that he knew from the Word of God.”
“But except for the prophecy, which Josiah didn’t know,” I said, “the Word of God wouldn’t have told him exactly where to go or when to go for him to end up at the exact right place and time.”
“But it did,” he said. “And it will in your life as well. The Word of God will give you the overall direction and leading for your life. As you follow the direction of the Word, you will be led to walk into the exact and specific will of God that is your destiny. You see, the Scriptures are not so much focused on finding the will of God that you don’t know, but on obeying the will of God that you do. Obey the will of God you do know, and it will lead you to the will of God you don’t. Follow, with all your heart, that which is revealed, and it will lead you into that which is not… and it was was Josiah, you will find yourself standing on a high place in the exact place, and at the exact time that was appointed for your life before the foundation of the world.”
2 Kings 23: 15-17; Psalm 37:23; Proverbs 2: 20-21; 3: 5-6; Ephesians 2:10
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“He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah. As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone, to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. He defiled it according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who proclaimed these things. Then he said, “What is this monument I see?”
The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones. ” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
2 Kings 23: 15-17
“A man’s steps are established by the LORD, and He takes pleasure in his way.” Psalm 37:23
“For we are His creation — created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2;10
“So, follow the way of good people, and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those of integrity will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous uprooted from it.” Proverbs 2: 21-22
Soli Deo Gloria!