Aug 9, 2017 |
“I waited and waited and waited for GOD… At last he looked; finally he listened.” Psalm 40:1
Waiting on God to bring to pass the promises HE has made is one of the most challenging features of our walk with HIM. Initially when we come to the Lord some requests were almost instant. Miracles happened immediately and we are thrilled serving God. However we begin to notice that one aspect of our desire or even a glaring need is not granted automatically like others then we realize that on this particular issue we have to practically wait on HIM. We can not hurry the Creator to perform within our time frame.
This phase of our life while we “waited and waited for God is what the psalmist in the above verses describes.
How do you handle your waiting time especially when you see this issue you are waiting on Him for did not take this long for others to get results?
Like the case of Hannah wanting a child and Peninnah her rival was having babies without any stress.
What do you do while others are laughing at you that you don’t have proof that you are serving God?
HE will surely come through. Don’t Give Up.
We are used to timing and programming things like the computer but God at times does not work that way.
Don’t grumble.
Don’t abandon the faith at this crucial waiting moment.
Peter went fishing again immediately after the crucifixion of our Lord and unfortunately some disciples went with him but they caught nothing. Eventually the resurrection came.
Keep waiting.
Your resurrection time is coming.
“Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying,
“God has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”?
Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine.
He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired,gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind.”Isaiah 40: 27-31
Keep your focus on God.
No negative Confession.
Keep waiting.
HE will surely show up and you will soon have a song of Praise in you mouth for your Victory.
Aug 7, 2017 |
“Then the devil took Him up to a high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time [ in the twinkling of an eye]. And he said to Him, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, and grace), for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomever I will. Therefore if You will do homage to and worship me [ just once], it shall all be Yours. And Jesus replied to him, get behind Me, Satan! It is written, You shall do homage to and worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.” Luke 4; 5-8
The devil threw the bait to Jesus to try this temptation only once and Jesus will get the quick victory.
How many times and in how many ways has the devil been coming to you with the same old rhetoric of trying this Just once?
You know you should not really do it but he comes with those persuasive words “just this one time, it would not hurt” “ Just taste it once and if you don’t like it” “Let’s just do it once and if you don’t like it I will stop” “Others have tried it and you can just do it once too” It’s endless the way the enemy packages the temptation offer to you disguising the terrible consequences of sin with the phrase just once.
The result of doing it just once the devil’s ways is always in disobedience to God’s ways and has always brought with it an open door to series of bondages.
Today be wise like your Lord and savior Jesus Christ don’t just do it once.
Respond with the Word of God and don’t “Just do it once”.
Completely turn away from that luring seemingly harmless expression of doing it once.
Tell him like Jesus did “Him only you shall serve”
Avoid that deception of trying out what God has clearly told you not to do.
Breaking the law one time seems a harmless temptation but that one time you may be caught and you throw in to total disrepute all that you have labored for all the years.
Don’t just do it once, tell “satan get behind me” and move forward in victory like Jesus did.
Aug 4, 2017 |
“Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!” (Genesis 37:18-20)
Gideon having had an encounter with God knew that even though he started out timid when he heard the narration of the dream of the enemy’s camp he knew it was time to act on it and not to go to sleep again. He seized that momentous revelation and it turned out to be victorious to him.
When Pharaoh shared his dream with Joseph and he heard the interpretation, he seized the moment and acted upon his dream. He did not go back to sleep, but he took steps based on the revelation which, by the way, started with the appointment of Joseph who always believed in his dream.
Resting and meditation time is good. So also receiving prophecy after prophecy is also good, but you must act out in obedience what God has told you. Moving round prophets and churches for confirmation and a second, third and fourth opinion is not living out your dream.
Paul received in a dream the directive to come to Macedonia and help. He acted it out by going. Even when dreams and visions told him of hardships on the way to preaching the Gospel at Rome, he set out trusting in the sovereignty of the Almighty God.
Act now! Do not delay! Take a step of faith today in that which God has revealed to you to do. God never gives us the complete picture at the beginning, but once you know the purpose and the destination the step by step direction will be revealed.
He will be your driver as you obey His directives. He will distinguish you as you live out your God given dream today! His resources and provisions will follow as you obey.
Aug 2, 2017 |
“Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him. Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming! Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!” (Genesis 37:18-20)
Stop daydreaming! Is usually the phrase or wake up call people say to those who appear to have been lost in their thoughts. Or to a student staring past the teacher and seem not to aware of the what is going on in the class! While it might seem out of place to be ‘lost’ in our dream, it is however not bad to live out our dreams.
Let’s look at the life of the biblical Joseph’s again, and the brothers retorted here comes the dreamer! That means Joseph was not only a dreamer, but he lived out his dream by sharing it with his brothers and behaving it out in some way
Don’t be discouraged by commentators that said Joseph should have kept quiet about his dream hence he would not have been besieged by the challenges that came his way.
If your dream is truly from God, your stars will make you shine out and challenges will still come. So, learn to act upon your dream when you are awake. Believe your God given dream; say it out like Jesus could tell Pilate for this purpose I was born.
When challenges come your way, don’t use your mouth to negate your God given dream by outright denial of your purpose in life.
Jul 31, 2017 |
“He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy. Happy is the man who is always reverent, But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.” Proverbs 28: 13-14
God does not want you to live a hypocritical life of living in sin and not confessing them before HIM and making quality decision not to continue in sin.
“For I am closely watching you, and I see every sin. You cannot hope to hide from me. And I will punish you doubly for all your sins because you have defiled my land with your detestable idols and filled it up with all your evil deeds.” Jeremiah 16:17-18
Do not hide your sin before God .HE is all knowing. Once you make a mistake be honest with yourself and God Do not try to cover your sin with another sin. As the saying goes you will need another lie to cover a lie and before you know it the deceitful life will continue to multiply.
“God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.
I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there, then up ahead and you’re there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful I can’t take it all in!” Psalm 139: 1-6
As you confess your sin to God, repent and sincerely depend on the Holy Spirit to enable you live a life of victory and you gradually become an overcomer.
Don’t be discouraged by many hypocrites around you who will take you before the Lord and openly accuse you of your sins. Jesus said “ Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7
Sometimes we always point to someone else sins, it is easier to see sin in our brother or sister than in us .It is even easier to see the sins in the world, and not in us. “There’s something self-righteous and hypocritical within a lot of us that cries out for the preacher to “let those other people have it!”
Don’t hide your sin before God.
Don’t give up because of the holier than thou attitude around you.
You too can live your Christian life victoriously.
