Know When to Be Silent
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Do you still believe that when you pray God is there and listening? How many still believe in God? God is always waiting for us to call on Him; hence He encourages us to call on Him (Jeremiah 33:3) Call unto me and I will show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. He is available to change our lives. People think God is afar; hence they want to convince God so that He can come to save them. God is not far, His promise still stands that; He will never leave you nor forsake you. The problem is that people have lost the sense of God by stopping to believe that God is with them. God has been around from the beginning until this day.
God has never and never will forsake us; it is people who started doubting the Presence of God, especially when they face challenges. The moment we face situations, we automatically think that God is not there. It is sometimes understandable to think such thoughts, I mean at one time Jesus prayed to God and asked him “Why have you forsaken me”. Just as Jesus conquered the frame of the mind He was in, we should not stuck in this state of mind. Do not be emotionally hurt permanently, the problem is that the moment people are discouraged; they remain downcast and immersed themselves in their pain and disappointments. We need to believe in God no matter.
Another thing that causes Christians to stop believing is that we tend to live a “normal life” , where we have adapted to the standard of the world. We were not called to become normal but to be spiritual. The scripture that says we should not conform to the standard of the world, does not only address sin but everything that has to do with our lives. We are used to waking up in the morning hence we sometimes fail to thank God for the day and ask for another. How many question whether they are going to wake up or not? It is not a guarantee that you will wake up tomorrow because you woke up today. Hence, we need to believe in God that we will indeed wake up; but the moment you stop believing in God then you are just living a normal life.
Just like using appliances at home, we hardly think that the microwave will be damaged as we use it, and get shocked the day it gets broken. I am not causing you to fear, so do not have fear but believe in God for tomorrow and thank God for today. The world do not know who to say ‘Thank you’ to hence they just live. Jesus taught the disciples to pray: “Give us this day…” He taught them to continuously ask for a day. How many pray to God to give them life? Normality is very dangerous because we stop believing and praying the right prayers. We should not just live a normal life but we need to always thank God.
We usually say “it was time” when a person passes on but we know that the bible says, if you respect your parents, your days will be added. Moreover, if you eat His Body and Blood you will have eternal life. The moment we follow these commands we shall have more days to live, there is no way that days can be added on, if God did not credit days to us; God already blessed us with life, we just need to follow the commandment, be thankful and believe.
The problem is that we tend to consume our days until the last one, only then do we rush to God ask for days to live. For example, if God has given you 20 days, do not wait for the 19th day to ask for life. Do not wait until you are sick to believe God for healing and life. We should be grateful and thankful for life. Another example is that we wait for an alert that the fuel tank is empty before we think of refiling the gas in the car though we passed many petrol stations, we should not replicate the same behavior towards God.
“By His stripes you are healed” (Isaiah 53:5) – (5) And by His stripes we are healed. This was not written for those who were sick at that time only, it was written even for the healthiest are healed by Jesus’ stripes. I mean God could have said: “To the sick, by my stripes you are healed”. You do not heal when you are sick but you need to believe that you are healed even though you are not attacked by sickness. Believe in Him that you are protected even though no one invaded your house. We need to believe God for who He is that is how you will experience contentment. Many have changed their belief because of situations. God is not looking for a weather/temperature Christians but a spiritual Christian. He does want a Christian who will believe today and doubt tomorrow.
Whenever Jesus encountered situations, He did not go to look for scriptures because He was the Word, Christians wait for situations then go search for scriptures fitting for that situation, we need to become the Word as well. Typical example, if I were to teach about marriage, the unmarried would leave the service or ignore the message because they are “not married” and the day they marry they come back seeking the very same message that they could have listened to earlier.
[1 Corinthians 10:1-5] (3) All ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink (5) But with most of them the God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Though receiving the very same Word and the Holy Spirit they did not believe the same. It is an error that we read the same bible yet not all believe that God can heal HIV/Cancer. What is at fault is not the food [Word] but the receiver. We cannot be in the same church and not believe in the same power. One believes that he has received a job but the other believes that they should wait in order to receive a job. Why can’t we just all believe? When I was praying asking God for a Word for today, He told me that people have stopped believing.
“When I was preparing for work today, God spoke to me and aid: ‘People can be in the same church but have a different God, not that I am (God) different but it is how people perceive me’” – Abigail Unknown. When will faith reach unity? The book of Romans 14 is not perfect because they believe in different manifestations. Imagine if we all saw God according to what He says and He is. The people in the bible perceived Jesus as the Son of God but not all followed Him. Why was that so? Imagine drinking from the spiritual Rock then die? Jude 1:5 outlines how disbelief is the biggest sin.
[Hebrews 3:16-19] (19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. If God’s healing was specific for some diseases, He would have specified. If His stripes were for a specific illness, God would have said “By His stripes you are healed from leprosy”. God is not just a God of the past and the present, He is also a God of the future. If Jesus was able to heal a soldier whose ear was cut off with a sword (past), then it means that He is able to deal with guns (future). We usually bottle God in what He was and fail to believe in Him for what for the present. He is God who was, is and is to come. God had to control the locusts to prevent them from eating, and when God decrees it happens. If locusts could obey the command of God even though they do not have common sense, what about what was made by a human being? Shouldn’t the electric system listen to God? God is not only the past but even the future, so we need to believe God in everything.
The Israelites believed God to take them out of Egypt but failed to believe that He would provide for them in the wilderness. As a result, God was not pleased and others were destroyed. They believed God for going out of Egypt only. He tried to resuscitate their faith when He gave them manna but still they doubted God. We shouldn’t be like that; we cannot believe today and deny Him tomorrow. If I believe that the Blood of Jesus washed me, shouldn’t the very same Blood take out the sickness in me. I do not believe that I will be forgiven but I am already forgiven, hence I do not believe that judgment awaits me. If the power of the cross was able to conquer sin, why can’t it restore our finances? so, the problem is not the cross but the people who receive.
Power is always at work when there is unity. It is one thing when one person believes but when a nation believes it is something bigger. The people brought handkerchief to Paul, He did not order them to bring handkerchiefs but their actions were propelled by the fact that they believed together with Paul. A minister can believe for your healing but if you do not believe, then it might not happen. It is our responsibility to believe! Let us not allow our minds and hearts divide us, believe is not for the man of God only, we all need to believe. Our belief should start with those small things. People believe God for healing but still remain poor because they believe for some things and not everything. We need to believe God for everything.
[John 1:50-51] Because I said to you, I saw you under a fir tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these. Why do you want God to act when someone is suffering from cancer but fail to believe God to heal a mere headache? Before you test healing HIV, try healing a fever first. In a nutshell, let us believe and believe God in everything.
YESHUA; A CITY ON A HILL, THE LIGHT THAT CANNOT BE HIDDEN!
