#A different kind of people thrive a lot when they are pushed into a disadvantaged position.
The fear mode button on their keypad has long been deactivated.
They are fearless.
They are go getters
Hebrews 11:33 MSG
Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice
work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions,
Hebrews 11:34 fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies.
Joseph turned his disadvantage to advantage. In prison, he did not sit sulking, he was busy
interpreting dreams.
Jephthah too did not sit down sulking when he was abruptly thrown out of his father's house through no fault of his.
He lost his inheritance.
Lost his heritage, but never lost his identity.
He was a man of valour.
Even in the land where he ran to, he did
not just sit idly by cursing all those who treated him badly.
He got busy raising an army and taking territories until his change came.
One thing we are all agreed on, is that insecurity does not favour a mass majority of the populace, save for those benefitting from it.
As part of the majority, we MUST all be concerned about peace in our land. Nothing thrives, flourishes or blossoms in times of crises...
If
only we can all spare at least 5mins to pray for our nation...
To those benefitting from insecurity; God says..
Nahum 2:13 MSG
"Assyria, I'm your enemy," says God-of-the-Angel-Armies. "I'll torch your chariots. They'll go up in smoke. 'Lion Country' will be strewn with
carcasses. The war business is over - you're out of work: You'll have no more wars to report, No more victories to announce. You're out of war work forever."
And for our nation, we pray;
Psalms 107:7 MSG
He put your feet on a wonderful road that took you straight to a good
*Acts 9:40 MSG*
Peter put the widows all out of the room. He knelt and prayed. Then he spoke directly to the body: "Tabitha, get up."
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It's an entirely different ballgame when you speak directly to a situation.
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There is tremendous power backing up the
Word of God when spoken directly at Anything tangible or intangible .
👉🏼Peter had nothing to offer the man by the beautiful game... He only had the Word and that made all the difference to the crippled beggar..
👉🏼 Ezekiel spoke to very dry bones & the bones were restored &
eventually became an exceeding great army. ( *Just think about it for a second* )
👉🏼With Elijah's word, the impossible happened. The sunk iron axe-head floated from the bottom of the river, while the wooden handle sank.
👉🏼By the spoken Word of Jesus, a gold coin was found in
Got several messages, comments and the likes from people who still have this belief that the Church should cease from praying and "diversify" into providing roads, stable electricity, good health care, etc
Well, for starters, the Church of
Christ cannot be held responsible for the failure of Government to provide basic, very basic amenities. Those ruling NIGERIA, from the federal level to the LG level, were either voted in or imposed on us by other means possible to do these things.
Elected officials the world over, have a minimum standard vis-a-vis citizen's expectations.
Therefore, the church cannot be held responsible for government's ineptitude.
The church cannot and should not be held responsible for poor educational facilities, poor electricity, poor
Proverbs 28:12b NKJV
...But when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.
Everyone seem to be in hiding, Killers and their sponsors seem to be on a killing spree and the nation looks helpless. Not anymore in Jesus name.
This is what God says;
Jeremiah 48v28 MSG
"Leave town! Leave! Look for a home in the cliffs...(whether they are foreign killers or locally sponsored killers, the Lord says, "leave town")
Jeremiah 50:25 KJV
The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: (
The Lord has opened His armoury)
They will bare the wrath of God.
They have sown wind.
Hosea 8:7 KJV
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
Let all those sponsoring terror, bloodshed, banditry, kidnapping reap the whirlwind of God
We cannot afford 2 stp praying 4 NIG..We may nt see d obvious results we desire nw, it is still inconceivable to stop. God is @ work.Imagine wat wld ve happened if we stopped praying...like I said, it is better imagined, dan experienced. Nothing done to us that Prayer cannot undo
Stopping is exactly what the devil wants and we cannot afford to give him the joy of satisfaction.
It's part of our job description as itemized in
Jeremiah 1:10 MSG
See what I've done? I've given you a job to do among nations and governments - a red-letter day! Your job is to
pull up and tear down, take apart and demolish, And then start over, building and planting." Stand Up and Say Your Piece
We must be seen to perform our job.
We pray
We point our their weakness
And we do the needful as citizens too.