MEMORY VERSE: Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none
that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?,
Isaiah 43:13
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Lev 2-3, John 21, Prov 18, Col 1
When God decides to do something on earth whether in a life or a
church or a place or country, there is no one or Jupiter who can stop
Him. Actually Psalm 33:9 says once He says it, consider it done. When
God wants to do something, please never sit on the fence. It is very
dangerous to neither be for Him nor against Him. He hates lukewarm
attitude with a passion. Revelations 3:16 says so then, because you are
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
That is why if you want to serve God, serve Him wholeheartedly if you
don’t want to serve Him no problem with that but please, do not be a
lukewarm Christian.
It is unwise to be against God. The Lord told the children of
Israel to go and posses the land of Canaan but they refused. The whole
nation cried and said they were not going because there were giants in
the land, Number 14:1-45. The Lord said no problem, I have promised to
take the children of Israel to Canaan land – a land flowing with milk
and honey. If you elders don’t want to go, I will take your children.
Everyone from age twenty and above died but the young ones got to
Canaan. If the Lord is asking you to do something and you are refusing
to do it, no problem He will get another person to do it. If He is
asking you to go and start a ministry or do one thing or the other for
Him and you are acting like a big man or big woman to Him, He will just
leave you and ask someone else. If you decide not to partake in God’s
project or refuse to contribute financially to it, He will finance His
projects with or without you.
Every time God calls a man or woman to do one thing or the other
for Him, He prepares a substitute in case they misbehave or suddenly get
too big for Him. When He called Moses, He had Joshua. Moses worked with
God for forty years but at a point he allowed his anger to get the
better part of him and the Lord decided that Moses was no longer fit to
carry on so He picked Joshua. It was God that picked Saul. Saul grew too
big and began to pick and choose which of God’s instruction to follow.
God replaced Him with a substitute- David. I remember while I was
growing up we had a young boy in the choir who was very good at playing
drums. When this young man mounted the drum sets, praise and worship
changed. At a point, he began to come late to church and at times he
would go and play football during the service and there will be no one
to play the drums. After every little thing he will get angry and people
will have to beg him to play the drums. Few months later, the Lord
brought a family and their son was a drummer. This boy was not as good
as our drummer but the Lord so much anointed this boy that in a short
while this boy took our drummers place. Our drummer will be in the field
playing football but this boy will be busy playing for Jesus. Today
that boy plays at concerts but our ex-drummer only sits and watches!
PRAYER POINT: Father, help not to be too big for you to carry.
