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There are seasons where GOD preserves a man by reducing what he has access to.
Certain doors will close. Certain associations will fade. Certain spaces will suddenly become inaccessible.
And if discernment is absent, a man will call warfare what is actually preservation.
Because sometimes, the mercy of GOD is revealed through limitation.
So on that day, do not struggle to reopen what GOD has intentionally removed.
The average Christian thinks he's shining for Jesus by earning more money and accumulating more fame.
Even if his business empire overworks staff and underpays employees.
We need to learn what being a light of the world and salt of the earth really means.
The obsession with "success" has twisted our perspective in a way that we have become useless to God aside from helping to build our church cathedrals.
The real shining is to display the nature of God in a wicked world.
Not by having more wealth or glamour but by demonstrating more virtue.
Older ministers should normalise shutting down the excesses of "campus ministry show biz" when invited.
The other day, during a campus meeting, before I began my pep talk, I had to insist that the "fake bodyguards" standing at the podium return to their seats and hopefully listen to God's word.
These people are young.
If they are innocently naive, then we must be able to prune their excesses and show them that true ministry is about selfless service and stooping low so that Christ will be exalted.
Otherwise, we will successfully mass-produce a generation of future ministers who are skilled in self-exaltation in the order of Lucifer instead of the meek and quiet spirit of Christ; the Servant of God.
The only issue is that you are not likely going to be invited again because of your insistence on truth but at least you would have demonstrated that ministry is first about what God wants and not what we like or enjoy.
Keep working towards making God your ultimate delight and absolute satisfaction.
Train your soul to enjoy Jesus until every other pleasure feels so inferior or until every other pleasure becomes a tool to deepen your intimacy with Jesus.
It may "hurt" at first, but if you stick with the discipline of learning Jesus, loving Jesus, and living for Jesus, you'll inevitably experience the incredible delight that comes with being obsessed with Jesus.
There is a revelation many have not yet fully grasped and it is costing them clarity, confidence, and conviction.
“The One who was, who is, and who is to come.”
That statement is not poetic. It is positional. It is authoritative. It is exclusive to Christ.
Listen carefully.
It is only in Christ that yesterday, today and tomorrow make sense.
It is only in Christ that the past is interpreted correctly, the present is stabilised and the future is secured.
Anything outside of Him is guesswork.
Let me be loud about this.
Christ is the only One who was there.
Before your lineage began, before your family narratives were formed, before any story was told about you, He was there.
So when people begin to speak authoritatively about your past, your family, your ancestry, your supposed patterns and histories, you must pause and ask a simple question:
Were you there?
Because Christ was.
Most of what is said about people’s pasts is not revelation. It is speculation dressed up as spirituality.
It is inference. It is assumption. It is pattern reading without divine authority.
But Christ does not speculate.
He witnessed.
And here is where it gets even more powerful.
The One who was there did not just observe your past.
He entered it.
Through His death and resurrection, He did not merely comment on history. He dealt with it.
He reconfigured it.
He interrupted its continuity.
He broke its supposed hold.
So your past, as seen through Christ, is not something you are trying to fix. It is something that has already been addressed.
Now hear this.
The same Christ who was
is.
He is present.
Active.
Engaged.
Not distant, not passive, not observing from afar.
He is in your now, giving meaning, giving structure, giving life to your present reality.
And at the same time
He is to come.
Meaning your future is not an extension of your past.
It is not a continuation of patterns.
It is not a predictable outcome of history.
Your future is anchored in Him.
So when you stand in Christ, you are not standing in a moment. You are standing in eternity’s advantage.
You are seeing your past through the One who was there,
You are living your present through the One who is here,
And you are stepping into your future with the One who is already there.
This is why it is dangerous to build your life on narratives outside of Christ.
Because only one voice carries accurate memory, present authority and future certainty.
And that voice is Christ.
So let this settle it in your spirit.
You do not need another explanation of your past.
You do not need another theory about your family.
You do not need another narrative about where you are coming from.
You need Christ.
Because in Him
your past is understood and dealt with,
your present is alive and directed,
and your future is secured and glorious.
This is not motivation.
This is reality.
The One who was, who is and who is to come
has you completely covered.
Job.1.5 - ...
*Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.* For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." *Thus Job did regularly.*
I honestly believe that many young, independent, and fiery ministers today would be more productive for God if they had remained Prayer leaders in their churches, but too many people want to hold a microphone, wear a suit, and stand on teaching pulpits.
And too many people underrate the impact of prayers behind the scenes.
There's no higher plane than the realm of intimacy with the Most High God.
Nothing is as honourable as sharing in God's burdens and desires and walking closely with the Creator of the Universe
This is the real High Life!
The chord that binds many in the modern church and ministry is "success"
If you're a "successful" son, your father in the Lord will be proud of you and you will win the award for son of the year.
If you're a "successful" preacher, other successful preachers will celebrate your grace and publicly identify with you.
If you "succeed", your voice will matter in the corridors of power, and they will invite you to do the opening prayer in Aso Rock.
It doesn't matter what your doctrine is.
It doesn't matter what the public reputation is
It doesn't matter if you're young or old,
As long as you have the results of a crowd pull, public appeal, and the "blessings of God" in material terms, you're very likely to be numbered amongst the elect that defines the body of Christ.
I honestly have no problems with success, I just wish we could define it by God's standards.
The more you hear scandals, the more grateful you are for men who have stood the test of time.
Men and ministers with integrity
Who have been faithful with the daughters God placed under them
Who have not abused power and authority to eat the flock they were meant to protect
Who can stand and not one woman can raise hand and say I have been defiled
Men who for over 50 years have preached holiness and have lived holiness
May God bless all our faithful Fathers