Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts
Friday, 16 November 2012
Monday, 29 October 2012
CREDIT WITH GOD
Psalm 20:3 says may He remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice.
In Acts 9:36-42 is the famous story of Dorcas. She loved the Lord and
loved helping people. She helped the sick, the broken hearted and
everyone who needed help around her. When she died , they sent for Peter
.When Peter arrived they began to show him the good works Dorcas had
done . Peter seeing all these had no other option than to beg God to
release her from heaven back to earth and God answered. From reading
this story, we see God relaxing His rule for Dorcas. As a matter of fact
the bible says in Hebrew 9:27 that it is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this judgment. The same God who declared that it is
appointed unto men to die once had to suspend this rule because of
Dorcas’ credit with Him. When we talk of credit with God, we are not
talking of tithe and offering. We are talking of something major the
Lord can look at and decide a case in your favour.
A king who
had good credit with God was Hezekiah. The bible records in 2 Kings
18:2-6 that he did what was right in the sight of God. Verses 5 and 6 of
2 kings 18 says He trusted in the Lord God Israel, he held fast to the
Lord and did not depart from following God but kept God’s commandment
which the Lord had given through Moses. On his death bed in 2 Kings
20:1-6, God was so happy with his service that he added another fifteen
years to his life. This brings us to the question, can God look at our
walk with Him and decide to add fifteen years to our life. Have we
served God to the extent that he will relax some of his rule? It is a
rule that whoever sees God will die but because of Moses’ credit with
God, God arranged a way for Moses to see Him without seeing death. As
big as the bible is, there is only a record of God leaving heaven to
dine with a family and that was the family of Abraham in Genesis 18.This
happened because of Abraham’s record with God. He had touched God with
his faith. It is not an easy task to convince God to come and dine with
us, but it is something that can happen if we are prepared to work hard.
ACTION POINT: Take your service to God to another level today, so that you can have good credit with Him.
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