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A reunion message to my beloved brethren at Miracle Valley Agiliti Church, under the stewardship of son of mine in the Lord, Pastor Joshua Ayankoya and his associate pastor and the tenants in this compound, grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus be over all of you in the Precious Name Of Jesus Amen.
I greet you all in the name of the Lord, for your faith and courage in Him and for your great love in keeping vigil in the church, praying tirelessly for me and my household.
May the Lord grant all of you great favours.
May you find a way where there appears to be no way.
May your days be long in Jesus name Amen.
Thank you all.
Many of you have heard of me, but never seen me, yet you remained fervent and calling on the name of the Lord and desiring to see me.
Now we have met, I will give you a message you will for ever remember.
This message runs in a thread, which will be bound in your heart and should follow you, where ever you will go.
Note that God is still in search of faithful people like Abraham, Joshua and Caleb and you could be one of such people.
Listen careefully :
There are people who you should avoid their character in your life and there are people you should desire to be like.
NOW :
(1) Do not be like the wife of Job
As Job was in trial, note what happened:
2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. (Job 2 : 8- 9).
People who cannot bear with you in going through a rough road, while serving God, can be a great discouragement to you.. They may lead you to go astray in your salvation journey. Job’s wife was not a support but a broken reed.
WHO IS A BROKEN REED
noun. : something or someone that fails when relied on for support or help
Job had told the wife:
2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. (Job 2 : 10).
From the point, where she said what she said, nothing glorious occured in her life.
Job’s wife did not make the best of prayers in crisis time.
NOTE THE BEST OF PRAYERS YOU SHOULD MAKE IN TIME OF CRISIS:
The best prayers of any man or woman should be made when there appears to be no way.
God has no limitation only men have.
– No.1. In time of trouble Jacob prayed to God and said:
If You will take me to where I am going and return me to my father’s house :
(i) this stone I lay my head shall be a pillar of Thy temple. ( Jacob returned to build a temple at Bethel).
(ii) of every thing you give me I shall give a tenth to You. ( Jacob was a tither)
(iii) You shall be my God and Jacob served God throughout his life.
God answered Jacob and somewhere his name was changed to Israel a nation we have today.
– No. 2 : And Hannah (mother of Samuel) was barren.
And in tears she prayed to God : “If You give me a son I will donate him to You.”
God gave her Samuel, who she donated to the temple in the time of Eli. Thereafter, she had many other children .
(2) Do not be like Aaron and the children of Israel at the foot of Mount Zion, when Moses had gone to receive the ten commandments.
32. [1] And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. (Exodus 32 1).
You know that Israel was used for hard labour in Egypt. The Egyptian midwives killed at birth, male children of lsrael born in their hands. God among other things planned a return of Israel back to the land of Canaan. But they failed to recognise God in this salvation and began to ask for a god or gods that brought them out of Egypt.
Aaron in fear of being manhandled perhaps,
backpeddaled from the truth and produced molten images as gods for Israel.
You must never be like any man who is ungrateful in time of difficulty. A man who cannot speak the truth even to his own hurt, cannot be used by God.
People who have tasted the mystery of God and cannot press to take it to the next generation are dead, while they live.
Children of Israel were ungrateful to God and did not remember their burden in Egypt, as they missed eating onions and cucumbers for a moment.
Rather than be like these two examples above, I encoursge you to be like :
(1) Abraham who never saw God or heard of God preached to him by anyone and yet believed God.
Romans 4:3 and Genesis 15:6
Abraham believed God, and it was acounted to him as righteousness” : Romans 4:3 and Genesis 15:6.
The above verses are used to illustrate that God credits people with righteousness based on their faith in Him, not their works.
(2) Also be Like Caleb and Joshua who believed that their enemies in the promised land were bread and butter for them.
In the midst of doubt, people like Caleb and Joshua did not see themselves as grasshoppers before the giants of Canaan the likes of Goliath.
How did Israel see the men of Canaan ?
“And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Numbers 13 : 33).
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. (Numbers 14 : 6 – 9).
When trials come to you in life, do not quit. Never forget the past glories of God over your life.
If you are a child of God, in the midst of great trials note that there are lights coming through the tunnel that say to you: “Day break is on your way.”
Take the above and choose the type of person you want to be like.
God loves faithful people. It is well and there is hope for you.
Shalom!
Miracle Valley Sermon coming @ Land of Goshen, Miracle Valley, Agiliti Mile 12, Lagos. 9th February 2025.
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