Ps.3:3
But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory [and my honour], and the One who lifts my head.
There are different ways a person can be promoted, however, being promoted is not as important as the sustenance of it. There are lifters but there is only One authentic
Lifter.
When the world and its people lifts a person, it is only to satisfy their own desires, thus the fellow will be subservient to their demands and commands, and since the things of
the world not of the Father, then worldly promotion belongs to Satan, if so, then is a trap to steal, to kill and destroy the life of such as he promotes.
Ps.75:6-7
This I know: the favour that brings promotion and power doesn’t come from anywhere on earth, for no one exalts a person but God, the true judge of all. He alone determines where favour rests. He anoints one for greatness and brings another down to his knees.
When God lifts up a fellow, not only will he be lifted, everyone around him will benefit from such lifting, for example, when Joseph was lifted and became the prime minister, his extended family was equally lifted, away from poverty, famine and hunger. It is therefore important to know where to seek promotion.
Although, a fellow may know where real and enduring lifting can be accessed, the condition precedent is that one must be a member of the family of God and an abstainer from all manner of unrighteous ways and living, it is impossible for the Lord to lift a sinner neither can a sinner know the ways of the Lord.
Jesus is the real lifter whose everlasting arms are underneath the righteous to lift them over and above the world. Is your name written in His book?