ARE YOU A BELIEVER OF THE WORD? |
ARE YOU A BELIEVER OF THE WORD? Blessed be the name of the Lord who daily loads us with His benefits. Our God is good! He is a very present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1) Month of February is a month of divine separation. Where a situation will look like God is not with you. It is a month whereby you have pains and doubt if God is really going to do what He has promised you. When the storms that blew last year is still lingering its head again this year. You may say in your heart ‘Oh I thought this year will be better than last year’. Last week I had a dream and there were three heavy rocks that blocked my way that I cannot move and the path is so narrow. I tried to look for other alternatives but there was none. At that time, I decided to walk towards the rocks and to my surprise the 3 huge rocks gathered themselves together and moved out of my way. Truly, we were faced with serious situations that we don’t even know how to handle them and when we stepped out to solve those problems, they all disappeared at once. “God is not a man that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19 NKJV). When you doubt God it means you are saying God is a liar. When you doubt God · You grieve the Holy Spirit which the Lord gives you in the day of your redemption “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption” (Eph:30 NKJV). 20 Behold I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgression ; for My name is in Him” 22 If you indeed obey His and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries: (Exodus 23:20-22) The Lord is telling you that on this journey of life; (a HIS ANGEL WILL KEEP YOU IN THE WAY: The road you are traveling is very narrow and there are many dangers but the Spirit of the Lord will guide you. Isaiah 58:11 “The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail”. (1) He will guide you continually so that you will not dash your foot on a stone-Psalm 91:11-12, (2) He will satisfy your soul in drought: Isaac sow seed on the land where there was no rain or water but He flourished and prospered. In time of famine, the Lord will satisfy you. Other business may be in drought but you will prosper. Other marriages may be in drought of love, peace, trust and unity; your marriage will blossom in peace, love, trust and unity. “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water” (Exo. 23:25a) (3) He will strengthen your bones: What kill other people will not kill you. Any sicknesses that destroy others will not destroy. In your weaknesses; the Lord will strengthen you. …”And He will take sickness away from the midst of you” (Exo. 23:25b). He will take away financial sickness, academic sickness, marital sickness, spiritual sickness and physical sickness. Hallelujah! (4) You shall be like a watered garden: this means your success will have roots. (5) And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail:This means you will prosper in every area of your life and your prosperity will have deeper roots underground which cannot be destroyed. Whatever you lay your hands to do will surely prosper. Your investment will surely yield fruits. Every area of your life will prosper, in the name of Jesus. (b TO BRING YOU INTO THE PLACE WHICH HE HAS PREPARED:“So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and Hittites and the Amorites and Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites” (Exo.3:8 NKJV). during the time of the children of Israel in the land of Egypt, the Lord promised to take them to their promise land. That promise land is a land that flows with milk and honey. Beloved, no matter your present condition; the Lord has a portion for you. As child of God, your promised land is heaven. It is where the Lord has prepared for all his children. A prepared place for you is a place of no struggle and pains. In this location as a child of God; it is where He has a place prepared for you before you were born. According to the dream that I narrate earlier on; the Lord was telling us to move forward even though the situations look impossible. We moved forward at His command and trusted Him for His mighty hand of deliverance and it happened. The Lord showed up. Brethren, I want you to understand one thing; the situation around you may be like giants in front of you but if you can just hear what the master Jesus is saying to you to move forward and you act on His word, all the giants of problems will be crushed by your faith. How do we grieve Holy Spirit? We grieve Holy Spirit by: · Fear-2 Tim 1:7 · Worry-Matt:6:25 · When you Carry your own cares-Matt 13:22 · When you refuse to pray concerning issue of life-Phil. 4:6-7 · When you refuse to believe in God-Heb 11:6 We are in the last days and you must keep your salvation. People lose their salvation because of doubt. The children of Israel were delayed on their way to the Promised Land because of their doubt in the Lord. They refused to belief God, but they follow the dictate of their heart and not on the promises of God. (Numbers 14:1-35) what is it that which the Lord has told you? Do you believe Him or do you doubt Him? When you refused to believe your God; the next thing will be to believe the devil and you go to the devil for help. Devil will direct you to witchdoctors and false prophets for healing and deliverance. If you do not believe God, you will follow the devil and his way for healing. You will follow his way to become rich. I would love to ask you some personal questions: ü How are your daily words? ü Do you magnify your problems or do you look at them as a stepping stone to your promise land? ü Do you see the enemies than God? ü Do you believe God or you believe the devil ü Do you see yourself that you will die in that condition? Your answer to these few question depends on how you handle your situation. The worst thing that can happen to you is to feel sorry for yourself.The more you mourn yourself the more you scatter yourself and tear yourself apart. Nobody will tell you the truth more than you tell yourself. Nobody will tell you that you are somebody except you tell yourself. If you tell yourself who you are according to the promises of God, nobody will succeed to pull you down. Devil cannot pull you down. He only makes you to loose your confidence in God and you will fall down flat. The Lord warned us not to loose our confidence. Keep your confidence in the Lord “Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward” (Heb 10:35 NKJV). No one that trusted in the Lord will be put to shame. If you are a child of God, God’s expectation from you is to have faith in Him. Do not shake. Do not move because of the situation around you. When you are in the Lord it means you believe that what God has said in your life must come to pass. If you have been a doubter of God’s word, today I plead with you to drop it because it will pull you down. It will depress you. It will confuse you. It will separate you from God. It will silence you. It will humiliate you. It will render you powerless and useless. It will crush your trust in the Lord. For you to be able to resist doubt; you must: o Abide in the word of God –John 15:1-5 o Meditate on the word of God not on the word of men-Josh 1:8 o Look unto Jesus and not unto your situation-Heb 12:2 The church of God must work with God and He alone must be our God. GGDEM must work with God and also be in God. “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus” (Heb 10:19) It is time to enter heaven’s most holy place: · To walk on the most holy place, · Think the most holy thought, · Speak most holy word , · Do the most holy things. Why you must not doubt God? 14 “Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 but outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie Rev. (22:14-15)”. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Rev.21:8). Dogs always go back to their vomit. It means when you doubt Jesus; you go back to confusion, lying, stealing, fornicating, you will go back to all the dirty things which you have left before. You must not doubt God because outside the gates are the dogs. Outside Jesus are the dogs.The dogs have no inheritance in the kingdom of God. There is no survival outside God. Being outside God is death. Being inside God is life. “The wages of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). Why did God told you to come boldly? Because o You are justified by the blood of Jesus Christ. o You are a new creature-2 Cor. 5:17 o All your wasted opportunities, lost prosperity and wasted years were restored to you at the Garden of Gethsemane. o There is no life outside Jesus. How to overcome doubt: o By staying in the presence of God-Psalm 91:1 o Have fellowship with Holy Spirit. There is no way you can hold tight the promise of God if you don’t spend time with Him everyday o Discuss with God and God will discuss with you- Isaiah 1:18 o Hold on what God has said to you. In conclusion, “I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting” (1 Tim 2:8). Men here are not gender base but, it is human being in general. Prayer Points: 1. Any power that wants to manipulate me out of the presence of the Lord, I command you to die, in the name of Jesus. 2. Physically and spiritually, I possess my possession in the kingdom of God, in the name of Jesus. 3. The grace to abide in Christ; increase mightily in my life, in the name of Jesus. 4. Whatever the enemy is using to take me away from the presence of the Lord (fame, money, worldliness, impatience, problems); be destroy by fire, in the name of Jesus.
22 “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God” 23 For assuredly, if you can say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says” (Mark 11:22-23 NKJV). |