THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING 'WHAT NEXT?' - PART 3

(A Biblical Perspective On "How To Allow God Mind His Own Business")

Dearly Beloved,

Whenever you have the privilege of comforting a believer who is encumbered with the disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares of this present life, simply ask two golden questions, “COULD YOU BE MORE CONCERNED THAN GOD IS ABOUT YOUR FUTURE”? HAVE YOU BEEN SEEKING TO ACCOMMODATE GOD'S NEED FOR REST, WHICH STARTS BY LEARNING WHAT THE FATHER TAUGHT THE SON OVER A SPACE OF THREE DECADES”? Their response(s) would amaze you!

Matthew 11:28-29 Come unto me, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, and I will give you rest (the first rest - the Son).  Take MY YOKE (the Lord’s daily revealed word) upon you, and LEARN OF ME; for I AM MEEK and LOWLY IN HEART: and ye shall find REST UNTO YOUR SOULS (the ultimate rest - the father).

                                                                                  

Adam didn't ask God for a wife, a job or a home in Eden. That was God’s business and he lived up to it! Joseph didn't pray to be the prime minister of Egypt. He found grace to cooperate with heaven by enriching his resume with “the pit” and “the prison” experiences, and he did so NOT KNOWING WHAT NEXT. To survive the harsh conditions of the wilderness, the children of Israel direly needed the pillar of fire by night and the pillar of cloud by day, but never prayed before it was supplied. ALL WE EVER WOULD NEED HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR, SO ONE OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF PRAYERS IS TO HELP OUR INDEPENDENCE-SEEKING NATURE AND ALSO ENHANCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON GOD.

In the same vein, God didn't wait for us to toil or “pray-through” before providing great necessities like oxygen, appetite for food, sun light which we forget to thank him for! If only we can respect God's sovereignty and desire to pay the price for a supernatural walk; like the lilies of the field who are better clothed than Solomon was (Matt. 6:28-29), we also would find ourselves sincerely trusting God when we seem not to trace him (Job 13:15) and would divest vast energies of our soul perhaps 300 degrees aright.

The Lord was the main character in the parable of the lost coin, lost sheep and the perishing son. He has purposed to keep something of inestimable valuable (truth) in man’s soul, and afterwards, doesn’t want to lose it! When such is lost and found, He is the main character that rejoices, and He doesn’t rejoice alone (Lk. 15:4-32). Beyond the MONETARY VALUE we focus on when we experience losses, the Lord expects us to be more concerned about the LOSS OF LIFE that always accompanies it. For every loss of time, money, resources, and on every occasion when veer off course with known and unknown truths, the enemy gains, and God is the stakeholder with the greatest loss. WHEN WOULD GOD BE THE MAIN CHARACTER AND MOST PROFITABLE SHAREHOLDER IN OUR LIVES?

As we subscribe to, and appreciate in this understanding;

·         Our gatherings unto the Lord would be with righteous expectations that heaven can't discountenance. 

·        We would find ourselves re-channeling a significant amount of our soul energies off initiatives that simply prove we either don’t hate this world or understand what it means to, and would receive the capacity to SEEK TRUTH - AS WE OUGHT.

·         We would gradually and ultimately find ourselves addressing our indebtedness of love to born and unborn generations. (Rom. 1:14/13:8/1Cor. 9:22)

·        WE WOULD ALSO FIND OURSELVES MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS AND GIVING ROOM FOR GOD TO MIND HIS (MATT. 6:33/1Pet. 5:10)

Matt. 6:33 But seek ye first The Kingdom Of God, and His Righteousness; and All These Things (food, clothing, shelter etc.) shall be added unto you

1Pet. 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have Suffered A While (i.e. borne your cross – Lk. 9:23-25), make you Perfect, Stablish, Strengthen, Settle You

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THE BEAUTY OF NOT KNOWING 'WHAT NEXT?' - PART 2

Dearly Beloved,

Have you ever seen someone tenaciously looking for what actually was not lost, or someone trying to keep what really isn't his? Have you ever seen folks emptying today of its strength while trying to solve tomorrow's problem? Have you ever seen believers react to a seemingly "legitimate need" like Saul did, and thereafter lost his kingdom? Have you ever wondered why after over 6000 years, the church is yet to produce a critical mass of 144,000 believers that'll simultaneously overcome fear like our Lord Jesus and His the early apostles did?

Heb. 2:14-15 ... that through death he (Jesus) might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

(i.e. fear of death here isn’t physical but the fear of not obeying/loving/enjoying the world – Heb. 11:24)

Heb. 11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin (Egypt) for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt

The fear of tomorrow lingered in the life of Abham until he began to walk in the consciousness of his changed name/identify - Abraham. Fear is an unarmed robber that daily preys on any believer that hasn’t begun to hear what Jesus heard from the father in the days of his flesh.

Fear was the first and only pseudo "gospel" that the serpent preached to Adam in Eden. The fear of losing what should never have been a possession caused Adam to trade his birthright and mortgage that of posterity. Fear is the reaction of any soul, at any given time "T", to any given opportunity where God expects us to lay down our corrupt-prone life (desires/love), and sheepishly follow God until our souls lay hold of resurrection power.

Most of the thoughts or counsels we react to, hardly ever emanate from the Holy Spirit,  through our regenerated spirit! Our recreated spirit that’s seated with Christ in heavenly places will never inspire us to "use our brain" or "think big" in taking decision that borders on our destiny in God. Most of such philosophies that motivate believers are worldly and sensual (Col. 2:8/Jam. 3:15). When a believer feeds on such wind of doctrines that emanates from Grecian wisdom, they become dull of hearing the very truth that should reveal Christ unto them (1Cor. 1:22b/Matt. 13:15/Heb. 5:11). All of such "brain waves" can never close the gap between God and man!

1 Cor. 2:11 For what man knows the things of a man (his inheritance/things of God’s Glory –vs. 7), save the spirit of man (not the mind) which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Most of the thoughts or counsels we don't respond to, are such that demand we wait without necessarily knowing when God will show up! That is God’s technology that should make men to lose measurements of the nature we inherited from Adam, so men can gradually inherit their true life (eternal life) which has been hid in Christ Jesus! Otherwise, we’ll fall prey to the dictates of an independent spirit and lose life.

History, our Lord Jesus, and even the devil, all confirm that "we have control over our choices (decisions and indecision), but we don't have control over the consequences of our choices, which will always affect posterity either positively or negatively. 

The biblical provision to overcome the fear of tomorrow is not the faith that gave birth to the good reports of Heb. 11:1-39b. Rather, it's the faith of Heb. 11:39c/Titus 1:2 that was authored and perfected through the victorious walk of our Lord Jesus. 

Not a few believers over generations have “gone to heaven” without overcoming the fear of death, but a generation that will “make it to the father” are currently being born anew (Jn. 13:3/14:3/1Pet. 1:23/Jam. 1:21). God NEVER approved of the former, but of the latter. It’s our lot – let’s selflessly embrace it!

Blessings!

Nothing that happens AROUND US should be compared with what should be happening WITHIN US!

Weather Forecast For 10th - 12th December 2015

Dearly Beloved,

It may interest you to note that the persons of the Godhead have always dwelt in an abode from a beginning that had no beginning, but sometime in eternity they agreed to prepare man to make it to a prepared place. They prudently considered the implication of the foundation for this project which would be laid over centuries. They knew that the completion and furnishing of their temple in each soul would cost them an enormous amount of longsuffering. They ratified their accord with an oath and pledged that a generation of men would see God’s secrets demystified. The father of good light and perfect light was refreshed to know that a generation of men who were once subject to vanity would overcome death and attain His rest. (Jn. 1:1/Rev. 10:7c/Jam. 1:7/Heb. 4:1-9)

The father kept consulting with the person of The Word, who under the auspices of the Holy Spirit would set out on an adventure to save and raise man into an estate where he would become a fellow of eternal life. To guarantee the destruction of the only enemy God had in common with men, The Word had to agree to be stripped of all His power and glory, and take the likeness of sinful flesh. The father raised the Son with His ways, crowned him seasonally with glory and honor and through him, consecrated The New and Living Way in Jesus Christ (The Way); so that man’s journey back to his original eternal dwelling place - The Father (The Place), would be guaranteed. (1Jn. 1:1-3/Ps. 90:1-2/Heb. 10:20)

Man’s sole response to God’s gracious outreach was to diligently make his calling and election sure ! Man had been given no alternative but to cross over from being the least among God’s creature into being great in the realm of the creator. Man was given a lifetime blank cheque to learn what Jesus learnt from his father over a period of three decades. Man would thereby learn righteousness, unlearning his ways, experience reconciliations and justifications in the Spirit and then partake of God’s glory after attaining a soul-state where he can permanently love what the Son loved (Righteousness)!

A generation of saints that would cross from THE HOLY PLACE into THE MOST HOLY PLACE; from KINGSHIP into PRIESTHOOD; from THE SON into THE FATHER are therefore being born in AD 2015! They are keeping their appointments with all the feasts that will make them delightfully come under God and carry him. Their sole quest is to glory only in the cross of Christ. They know they are being left without an excuse and they must keep acknowledging the Father and Son until they can give a clear interpretation of His eternal power and Godhead. DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU?

Anamnesis 2015 promises to be one of the avenues on earth where the father will be expressly unveiled, and in turn, would cause us to know as we are known. We enjoin you to pray, plan and prepare to stay connected from 10th -12th of Dec. 2015 for this great spiritual outing.

Pls see http://egfm.org/anamnesis-2015/ for more details and kindly note that live audio/video broadcast available on these days. For further details, pls call 07045758513/08023877600

Blessings!