Message of Hope
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Habakkuk 2:3)
What a great and awesome God we serve, He had made everything beautiful in His own time. He does everything with purpose and perfect timing. In His thoughts to give us a perfect and unique living, He made us to rule over all He has created. Eventually, devil interrupted the uniqueness of God in man’s lives, yet, He has never stop loving us. Out of His love, He gave us Jesus Christ, who died for our sins to checkmate devil’s victory over us. Today, we demonstrate the victory we had received from God through the son---Jesus Christ to trample devil under our feet.
With God, nothing has happened nor happen by mistake---He has thought over it, finished it and established it.
He told Abraham, he will be the father of all nations even when he was not gotten what to show for it.
He prepared Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, of which Moses was the least expected to face such a task.
Ruth was ‘marked’ hopeless but with God pre-arrangements, she became part of the lineage of through which Jesus came to this world in human form.
Before Saul became Paul, God knew he would be a great tool to convert the Gentiles.
No matter how deep your sorrow are, God’s arm is not too short to reach you, He will set you on high places and give you peace that passes all human understanding. He will lift you from where you need to be. “For I know the thought that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thought of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11)”.
God is ever ready to be of our help in time of difficulties and challenges, since He understands our nature and weaknesses even though we sometimes think we are strong-God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1)”.
GOD IS EVER PRESENT WITH US
Trusting Him raises the level of our understanding in Him even when things are not going the way we want. When troubles and situations turn dark, when all hope are lost and in a complete chaos, when enemies are fully in charge of pulling us down with a total up roar around us, when being condemned by friends and relatives, when confusions and indecision fills our hearts the time prayers seems unanswered and situations getting tougher. A very period when doubt grips our hearts of been sinful or rejected of God, a very time when people of the same faith persecutes us-God is ever present with us.
Be focus and positive about God, never give your attentions to the problems because the more the attention you give to your problems the more horrible you become and the tendencies of fallen so soon is near.
Being in a relationship with God can be very frustrating if we are inpatient types that does not understand how He works because His promises could be received through faith and patient.
The known fact about God is that, he deals with us (Man) differently-I remembered that, I had five years waiting before I could have a child of which I least expected. Yet, some had more than five years waiting while some were less than five years and of course some had no experience of waiting at all.
The paramount thing is that, that which He had spoken about you will surely come to pass – “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6)”
To buttress on this lovely bible quotation – right before the Israelites went into exile, God knew it and had the immediate solutions to it.
The Israelites experienced hardship in Egypt and during this period, Moses was born which was to be their deliverer. Right in the palace of king Pharaoh, Moses was raised.
He left Egypt at the age of forty years and God brought him back when he turned eighty years to fulfil his initial purpose of birth.
Those visions, dreams and prophesies that were either received or spoken of you will all come to pass in God’s divine timing.
I was in primary school when I first had a dream of establishing in abroad, the fulfillment came after decades.
Joseph had a dream of being great, his brethren tried all they could to stop it happening, yet, his destiny speaks. I pray for you that, as many dreams of greatness you have had shall speak in Jesus name.
Having said this, we need to know and learn to be patient in all our expectations. Human being are always at rush, to have everything done or achieved in a jiffy but God does not.
However, no matter how long it seems to us, we need to keep holding to those promises He has said about us.
The book of Hebrew 4:3, says that it is through believing that one can enter into the rest of God.
Believing and trusting gives us a healthy soul, free from worries and weariness.
Mary the mother of Jesus, believed the Lord of being pregnant of Holy Spirit, even though she has never had an encounter with the Angels of God plus the kind of message she received-Holy Ghost pregnancy.
I need to say this, while waiting on God, be positive and have the rightful thought in you. Our thought goes a long way to unlock or lock our fulfillment's.
BE POSITIVE AND THOUGHTFUL
There was a great famine in Samaria, to the extent that an ass head was sold for fourscore pieces of silvers and the forth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. Elisha, the man of God prophesied of surplus in the next twenty four hours, but a certain man stood to challenge him that is not possible even though the Lord opens the windows in heaven. Please read the whole story – II Kings 6:25, 7:1-2. It’s not about your present situations or difficulties you might be passing through but about ‘God’ who owns both present and future. Not about your age, neither your level of education nor your connection to people or how far your mates have gone, neither report Doctor’s has given concerns your health issues but ‘God’--- “run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child. And she answered It is well (II King 4:25-26)”
The great lesson to learn from this woman character was that, she was positive and thoughtful despite her distressful.
For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7) Let us be positive in every of our thoughts, since our thought is a strong driving weapon to decide our ‘possibilities’ – “But the man that went up with him said, we be not able to go against the people, for they are stronger than we (Number 13:31)”.
Do not set up a ‘pre-planned’ failure in your heart, but to believe that you are stronger and mightier than every mountain before you-The enemies are under your feet, your health condition will be normalized, your destiny will speak, your visions and dreams will be actualized, your babies/children will come, you will be remembered for good, your efforts will be crowned with success, every obstacles of delay will be terminated, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
