STAY FOCUSED
Memorise: Be ye therefore followers of God, as
dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
Ephesians 5:1-2
Read: Ephesians 5:1-8, Bible in one year: 1st
Chronicles 28:29, Proverbs 30:7-17
God’s ways clearly not the
ways of men. What men hold dear and crave after are usually not what matters to
God. We human beings to blow our own trumpets. We like to be addressed by big
titles and we want the office we hold to be identified with us wherever we go.
These are not important things before God; as a matter of fact, they are the
expressions of self which if allowed to thrive by a child of God, will lead to
carnality. Romans 8:7 says, a carnal mind cannot please God.
In John 13:33, Jesus called
His disciples “Little children”. Among them were some men like Peter, who was
physically older than Him. Much later still, after His resurrection in John
21:5, He called out to them on the sea: “Children, have ye any meat? They
answered him, “No”; this was after they had been with him for years. They never
out grew being called children, and none of them protested to Him being called
a child.
Some years ago, at the
conclusion of a seminar at the University of Ibadan (south –west Nigeria), I
had asked the students if they were ready to become like a child in order to
receive their miracles, then the Lord asked me the same question. He asked me
if I was not ready considering myself an adult. This really shocked me. It made
me to give myself a serious self-examination. I realised that I had allowed my
new status as the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God to
come between me and God. Prior to my becoming the General Overseer, it took
efforts of binding and loosing, praying in tongues and resisting the devil for
me to obtain personal miracles. In light of this, I started to crave seriously
to become like a baby once again. It is an easy thing to lose focus if one is
not watchful. Humility is the key thing here. Many people have missed it on
this point today because they love to flaunt their titles, positions and
achievements. When they talk, you think they are the ones behind their achievements.
When addressed as brother, they will immediately correct you, “I am Pastor,
Apostle and Doctor so and so”. Yet, at many times, they themselves address the
great apostles of old as Paul or Peter etc, without using any prefix.
Prayer Point
Father, please help me to
always see myself as a child before you.
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