Beloved,
- Man wants to REST in an earth that has been colonized by a worldly system which
was designed not to entertain rest.
- God wants to REST in those who would live according to a
different spiritual economy which the heavens want to introduce/import to the
earth and thereby colonize it.
God has not found rest (as it was of old), so man also hasn’t also found rest. When God purposes to love a believer in the definition of 1cor. 2:9 kind of love, which is different from Jn. 3:16 order of love, such a believer is in trouble. The severity of God would pursue such until he arrests such a one and prepares him to be a prisoner of the Lord. This is where God manifests his likeness as a man of war (Isa 42:13). So it is with a country/nation God has chosen/called into priesthood, so i believe it is with a country like NIGERIA. THIS IS WHERE I BELIEVE GOD DIFFERS FROM US ABOUT A NATION LIKE NIGERIA. God has borne much more losses than we have seen in Nigeria, so loss is not ‘a big deal’ like we see it to him, like FULL SALVATION IS TO HIM UNLIKE TO US:
1. About six Millions of men (excluding children/women) left Egypt for Canaan, how many made it to Canaan?
God has not found rest (as it was of old), so man also hasn’t also found rest. When God purposes to love a believer in the definition of 1cor. 2:9 kind of love, which is different from Jn. 3:16 order of love, such a believer is in trouble. The severity of God would pursue such until he arrests such a one and prepares him to be a prisoner of the Lord. This is where God manifests his likeness as a man of war (Isa 42:13). So it is with a country/nation God has chosen/called into priesthood, so i believe it is with a country like NIGERIA. THIS IS WHERE I BELIEVE GOD DIFFERS FROM US ABOUT A NATION LIKE NIGERIA. God has borne much more losses than we have seen in Nigeria, so loss is not ‘a big deal’ like we see it to him, like FULL SALVATION IS TO HIM UNLIKE TO US:
1. About six Millions of men (excluding children/women) left Egypt for Canaan, how many made it to Canaan?
2.
As dear as the Jews were/are to him, how many of them perished long before and
during the Holocaust? What refrained God from stopping it? What did God comfort
himself with?
3. How many faithful Christians died during the inquisition
through horrible ways? WHAT IS IT ABOUT OR BEYOND NUMBERS THAT GOD RECONS OR DOESN’T SEEM
TO RECON WITH?
Man's arguments without these understanding are simply based on sentiment. If God has purposed to do through a Nation like Nigeria, what he sought to do through Israel of old (i.e. raise a model of His People as a ref. point to other nations), then we are preparing to repeat the history of man’s carcasses littering the current 'wilderness' we are in as a nation.
Too many things have been muddled up in what we call CHRISTIANITY today. We have a lot of personal fighting to do to break out of HYPOCRISY. It is difficult for a proud person who hates pride to agree he is proud, so it is with hypocrisy. Somewhere, i am still dealing with it! Laying claim to being a Christian is the toughest things/profession on earth!
I thank God for our efforts to pray for change in Nigeria... We engage in daily prayers for the equivalent of some months at my local church/fellowship, but i am rather consoled by an understanding of 'GOD IS NOT PRIMARILY DEPENDING ON 'OUR PRAYERS' TO DELIVER NIGERIA! IF HE DOES, THEN WE CAN SAY WE ARE IN TROUBLE/NO HOPE IN VIEW. You and I are not who we are or even where we are, by our prayers.
Should God have responded to the prayers of men like we really want him to, Satan would bring an accusation against God, not just his people. Jam. 4:3 confirms that many prayers is not free from lust, even towards our nation. So THERE IS EITHER SOMETHING WRONG WITH 'US' OR WITH 'OUR PRAYERS'.
From the kingdom point of view, there is nothing like “I am a Nigerian, British or American” but according to Eph. 2:19, we are now fellow citizens with other saints, and of the household of God), SO WHEN WE PRAY LIKE ‘A NIGERIAN’ for ‘NIGERIA’, GOD MAY NOT HEAR SUCH PRAYER. I CAN’T PROVE IT HERE FOR SAKE OF BEING CONCISE. IN FACT, SUCH DOESN'T EXIST IN THE KINGDOM REALM CALLED TRUTH.
SO, CAN WE AGREE NIGERIA IS A MYSTERY BEYOND OUR INTELLECTUAL/SPIRITUAL FINESSE? THIS WAY, WE WOULD ALLOW THE LORD DISARM US OF SOME 'UNDERSTANDING THAT HASN'T AND WOULD HARDLY TAKE US ANYWHERE' AND THEN GRADUALLY ARM US FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE. PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE THE LORD WOULD HAVE US FIRSTLY UNDERSTAND THIS COUNTRY, BEFORE WE THEN EMPLOY SUCH UNDERSTANDING IN PRAYERS.
As in Cain, the SACRIFICE doesn't come before the VESSEL, the cart can’t come before the horse. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE VESSEL LIFTING UP PRAYERS WHICH SEEMS NOT TO BE 'GETTING TO GOD', because HE ANSWERS ANY PRAYERS THAT CAN SUCCESSFULLY JOURNEY TO HIS EARS.
Man's arguments without these understanding are simply based on sentiment. If God has purposed to do through a Nation like Nigeria, what he sought to do through Israel of old (i.e. raise a model of His People as a ref. point to other nations), then we are preparing to repeat the history of man’s carcasses littering the current 'wilderness' we are in as a nation.
Too many things have been muddled up in what we call CHRISTIANITY today. We have a lot of personal fighting to do to break out of HYPOCRISY. It is difficult for a proud person who hates pride to agree he is proud, so it is with hypocrisy. Somewhere, i am still dealing with it! Laying claim to being a Christian is the toughest things/profession on earth!
I thank God for our efforts to pray for change in Nigeria... We engage in daily prayers for the equivalent of some months at my local church/fellowship, but i am rather consoled by an understanding of 'GOD IS NOT PRIMARILY DEPENDING ON 'OUR PRAYERS' TO DELIVER NIGERIA! IF HE DOES, THEN WE CAN SAY WE ARE IN TROUBLE/NO HOPE IN VIEW. You and I are not who we are or even where we are, by our prayers.
Should God have responded to the prayers of men like we really want him to, Satan would bring an accusation against God, not just his people. Jam. 4:3 confirms that many prayers is not free from lust, even towards our nation. So THERE IS EITHER SOMETHING WRONG WITH 'US' OR WITH 'OUR PRAYERS'.
From the kingdom point of view, there is nothing like “I am a Nigerian, British or American” but according to Eph. 2:19, we are now fellow citizens with other saints, and of the household of God), SO WHEN WE PRAY LIKE ‘A NIGERIAN’ for ‘NIGERIA’, GOD MAY NOT HEAR SUCH PRAYER. I CAN’T PROVE IT HERE FOR SAKE OF BEING CONCISE. IN FACT, SUCH DOESN'T EXIST IN THE KINGDOM REALM CALLED TRUTH.
SO, CAN WE AGREE NIGERIA IS A MYSTERY BEYOND OUR INTELLECTUAL/SPIRITUAL FINESSE? THIS WAY, WE WOULD ALLOW THE LORD DISARM US OF SOME 'UNDERSTANDING THAT HASN'T AND WOULD HARDLY TAKE US ANYWHERE' AND THEN GRADUALLY ARM US FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE. PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE THE LORD WOULD HAVE US FIRSTLY UNDERSTAND THIS COUNTRY, BEFORE WE THEN EMPLOY SUCH UNDERSTANDING IN PRAYERS.
As in Cain, the SACRIFICE doesn't come before the VESSEL, the cart can’t come before the horse. THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE VESSEL LIFTING UP PRAYERS WHICH SEEMS NOT TO BE 'GETTING TO GOD', because HE ANSWERS ANY PRAYERS THAT CAN SUCCESSFULLY JOURNEY TO HIS EARS.
Jn. 14:12 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he
do also; and greater works (kingdom initiated/sustained) than these
shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 14:13 And (i.e. when you pray with
a comprehension of the kingdom) whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I
do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
1 Jn. 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, IF we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 Jn. 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, IF we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
We need a 'change in Nigeria', but
we have only increased passion in doing THE SAME THING THE SAME WAY,
PRAYER-WISE/UNDERSTANDING WISE, which most likely is NOT ACCORDING TO HIS
WILL, AND MAY BE AFTER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF MAN’S KINGDOM.
The day a believer finds mercy to be delivered from his orientation/understanding of prayers, heartfelt prayers would begin! I still wonder why i have hardly been involved in 'praying LIKE I ONCE KNEW for my earthly needs' in the last 7 yrs or so. PERMIT ME TO CONFESS "IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO PRAY ABOUT 'MY NEEDS' AFTER REALIZING MY HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS I HAVE NEED AND HAS INSTRUCTED ME TO RATHER PRAY ABOUT THE UNSEEN DAILY BREAD which a natural man/mind knows not. My mind still fights this till date.
Many might not agree with me on the following summary/submission: Our current approach the issue of our earthly government is eternally questionable. Satan understands and would hijack anything that falls short of the divine blue print. We need the help of the Spirit to study how Jesus managed/related the issue of the government of his day, which was much more callous/corrupt that the one of our day.
Matt. 23:26 gives a hint on the attitude/protocol which would produce a different result and God is committed not to discountenance. He would step down and change situations/shake every shakable
Matt. 23:26 Thou blind (what needs to be dealt with in the Church – you and I) Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter (i.e. so I, God can come and rest), that the outside of them may be clean also (i.e. so you, man can rest also)
God is already judging and would yet judge until peace comes. No person is higher than God’s sword. God's judgment would bring forth righteousness, and the righteous shall see a restoration would be vindicated/joyful
We need the lord to help us interpret
the events and circumstances surrounding us clearly SO WE MAY RESPOND
ACCURATELY AND PRAY ARIGHT, AMEN.
