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Only Believe

Only Believe

life and ministry

sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi

God promises to do wonders for us in our lives, families and nations – if only we will believe.

One of the many meanings of the word believe is to be willing and obedient (Is. 1:19)

“You will eat the good of the land” actually means, God will work with you.

It also means, He will be with you.

The condition for receiving heaven’s assistance is to believe.

To believe and receive every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

I can also say upfront that God wants to save, heal, deliver, provide and surprise tonight, if only we will believe.

Only those whose eyes have been opened can believe God.

And we are talking about believing God, not believing in God.

They sound the same but they are not the same.

When your eyes are opened, you will see God.

God may be invisible but He is real to those who know Him.

We may not be able to see Him with our outward eyes but we can see Him with the eyes of our hearts.

The natural or outwards eyes are limited in how much they can see.

The same way that human understanding is limited.

Revelations given by God are greater by far.

There are three attributes of those who can see God.

The first is that, they fear Him.

The Bible hints that the reason the sons of Eli did evil was because they knew not the Lord.

The second attribute of those who see God is that they can praise Him.

The third attribute of those who can see God is that, they can see His works.

Is 42:1 says “Who hath believed our report? Who, except those to whom the hand of the Lord has been revealed”.

To see God’s hand means to see His works

A good example is the case of the man born blind in John 9.

For some, he was proof that God did not exist.

Some felt that if God existed at all, the man’s case proved that He wasn’t fair.

Jesus however revealed that the pain in that man’s situation was so that, the works of God could be seen in his life.

How then can the works of God be seen in the life of one who was born blind?

The answer is, the one born blind makes it possible to see God’s work in those born seeing.

It takes someone with no appetite at all for God’s work to be seen in the one who can eat a houseful.

It takes someone with no arm to show God’s work in those with their arms complete.

I believe that one evidence of God’s work in your life, is that you are here tonight.

Finally there are 2 kinds of unbelief.

Unbelief can be as result of weakness or weariness.

Unbelief can also be an expression of rebellion against God – an attempt to deny God.

Some actually hate God.

Some hate to love God or love to hate Him.

The good news is that the weary can be healed and restored.

Even the rebellious can surrender to Jesus Christ.

 

GOD DOES NOT HAVE PEOPLE

GOD DOES NOT HAVE PEOPLE

Life and Ministry

Sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi

Church-goers are not necessarily God’s people.

In fact, typically, they are not.

In most cases, church-goers are people who merely dance to the rhythm of the crowd.

They are doing it simply because the crowd is doing it.

They do not have any real conviction that is their own.

They do not know God personally, and are as such, good food for the wild cats that masquerade as sheep in God’s house.

They are the type of crowd that false pastors love.

A lot of people today who broadcast to the world that they are Christians are merely stealing the Christian identity.

They become the false standard for the Christian life.

They are the types who keep the doorway into God’s house:
they are not going in themselves, they also keep others from getting inside.

True Christians are not perfect people but they are honest before God and men.

Even their weaknesses, mistakes and failure win people to God.

The world around them will find their honesty admirable.

They are also a beckon of hope that those who make mistakes, fail or are weak do have a chance with God.

God does not have people, even though there may be packed churches on Sundays.

In reality, such audiences may be little more than the dying phase of an outgoing revival.

A lot of people who attend the Sunday church have only formed the habit of attending church on Sunday.

They don’t know God.

They are not committed to God.

They only have to open their mouth for the hollowness of their knowledge of God to be seen (even though they might have seen in the church for ever).

Many churches are also spiritually dead.

They are little more than social gatherings.

The people in them take their spiritual problems to devilish cults and spiritual consultants.

Lies that the devil uses to bind unserious Christians include the following thought patterns:

“Other can go on with the work meanwhile, I will join up later.”

What they don’t realize is that, drifting from Lord a little is like having a garment with a little rent.

The rent grows and widens very quickly.

The devil also makes them to think: “I will get more involved when my pain eases”.

The truth of course is that it is easier to serve God while coping with pain than in the midst of comfort.

Success is a lot more difficult to handle than failure.

Someone who fails to serve God when things are difficult will definitely not serve Him when they get better.

The devil also lies to lots of people who think they will start giving to God’s work when their finances improve.

Number 1, those who are not faithful to God with their finances will hardly see the faithfulness of God in their finances.

Number 2, the reason they are not giving in the days of little is not lack, it is greed – and when their income increases, their greed will increase also.

ELEVATION IS CAUSED BY ZEAL

ELEVATION IS CAUSED BY ZEAL

life and ministy

sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi

The book of Daniel tells the story of 4 zealous Hebrew boys.

They were boys at the beginning but older men in later chapters of the book.

The king of Babylon took several of them into his palace for special training but it was the zeal displayed by this 4 that stood them out.

Zealous people do not seek attention or limelight but their zeal always speaks out loud.

The scores of other Hebrew children in the same situation also had a name as Hebrews and worshippers of the living God.

The problem was that, the others were nominal or marginal Christians.

They ruffled no feathers, as such they hoped that theirs would not be ruffled.

They would soon discover how being a fence-sitter can put someone in the line of danger.

A dream soon came to the king which put all their heads in mortal danger.

Zealous Christians are agents of change but lukewarm Christians accept things as they are.

Daniel and his friends risked their comfort and security in the king’s house by following what their hearts told them.

They did not have to refuse the king’s food.

It was not unlawful, the food only grieved their spirits.

The king’s portion was expensive food and very nourishing.

The purse that they asked for was by contrast a bread of affliction.

Their action eventually increased their favour with God and with men.
Christians today try to work their ways into the hearts of those having power instead of being zealous for God.

What it takes to please men is what it costs to be their slaves.

No one who is a slave somewhere else can be a useful vessel in God’s hands.

No servant serves 2 masters.

The elevation of zealous Christians come from God.

Usually, it is the same tribulation that challenge their faith that provides the lader for them to rise.

One of many attributes of zealous people is that they are not afraid of hard work.

Now let’s examine some 4 additional attributes of zealous Christians:

Zeal is present when someone begins to do for God things that they don’t have to do.

God Himself probably would understand if they do not do those things.

By doing such things, gateways are opened for great increase.

Secondly, zealous people do not do just the minimum required, rather they exceed in the business and in the interest of God.

Thirdly, a zealous person is not troubled by the prospect of loss in the pathway of achieving their goal for God.

By risking loss, they often end up gaining all.

The same Hebrew boys did not mind going into the flame of roaring fire rather than bow to Babylon’s idol.

Zealous people are never alone.

They always find someone else to agree with them.

Even Jehu found Jonadab the son fo Rechab in 2 Kings 10.

 

 

OVERCOMING FEAR

OVERCOMING FEAR

LIFE AND MINISTRY

SHARING WITH PASTOR DAPO ADENIYI

Fear is an enemy that we must seek to defeat by all means.

It saps our energy.

It leads us to make poor choices or no choices at all.

Fear and its cousins (hatred, anxiety, doubt, depression) are works of the flesh.

We swim in them simply because we refuse to walk closely with God.

Fear and its companions are viral infections in the air.

Only a committed Christian life can help us to overcome them.

They are like ravening birds flying overhead everywhere and trying to perch on top of our heads.

When they are unable to perch, they urinate in order to mess up a decent Christian life.

Such urination takes the form of thoughts, especially harmful thoughts.

Those who are not saved stand little or no chance of overcoming fear.

More than the ordinary experience of having fear, there is the real danger of having “the spirit of fear”.

That one is a stronghold.

That stronghold also comes to play where God is not given a chance.

Those who have the spirit of fear often have manic fear.

They plunge into fear even when there is no reason to fear.

 Prov. 28:1 says “The sinner fleeth when no one is pursuing, but the righteous is bold as a lion”.

The spirit of fear is afraid of the least of things even though they are also defiant and hateful of mighty things like the anointing of God.

They do not fear God but you cannot imagine the flimsy things they fear such as butterflies, moonlight, rainbow etc.

It is the genuine experience of salvation that brings freedom from sin and death.

 Rom. 8:2 says “For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free  from the law of sin and of death.”

Fear and hatred are twins.

They are 2 items on the list of what causes death.

We can have freedom from hatred because of the love that God gives out from us (Rom. 5:5).

We can walk in love and love with the love of God.

God can and will give us the grace to love those who are impossible to love.

People are impossible to love because they don’t love themselves.

Fear and hatred are products of a sinful life.

Those who walk closely with God are not troubled unduly by hatred and fear,

Fear is overcome by faith and faith comes when God’s word enters .

Unfortunately a Christian can choose to live in fear simply by choosing not to be zealous for God.

The lack of zeal for God brings so many problems to a Christian.

A Christian without zeal is like someone trying to serve two masters.

God has promised in His word to push them out eventually from His house.

Christians without zeal will join a battle they know nothing about.

Like the men who followed Absalom and Adonijah, sons of Hagith.

The lack of zeal takes a man who previously was in God right back to Egypt.

See Prov. 14:12/16:25

 

 

The power of God’s spoken word

The power of God’s spoken word

life and ministry

sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi

Ezk. 37:1-10

I think, one of the fascinating passages in the Bible showing the immense power of God’s word when spoken, is Ezekiel chapter 37.

Can these bones live?

No doubt, they can live under the decree of God’s word.

God teaches the prophet how to bring His word to bear on a terrible situation.

Undoubtedly the passage also teaches us that nothing is impossible with God.

He can reverse any situation, however hopeless.

There is help available, beyond the imagination of men.

God can heal many or a few

He can touch anyone who cries to Him for a filling.

The word of God is like a long spear or a sword.

God is teaching His servant Ezekiel how to use it.

Many good people have complained that they decreed the word of God over their lives but saw little or no changes.

There are lessons here on how God’s word works.

For example, the word of God must gain deep root in the heart of the one who will be decreeing it.

It has to dwell in you richly before you will say it and it will come to pass.

See Rom 10:9-10

The valley full of dry bones can also stand for a terrible situation which is common to a lot of people.

The situation of everyone in a particular church assembly can be that bad.

It can also be a family line.

It can be a city.

The case of Jericho in the time of Elisha comes to mind, (2Kings 2).

Now, let’s learn some quick lessons about the valley of dry bones.

The first is that the people whose bones fill the entire landscape were all slain.

That means the situation was created by certain people.

Secondly, problems this serious can develop on their own.

A good example is a famine.

Terrible problems can also arise due to our own mistakes.

For example, the bones could have died and dried up because the people were involved in a mass suicide.

It could also be due to a curse or a judgment from God.

Finally, how will the bones live?

God’s hand may need to be on the one giving the decree before the word of God that he or she is putting to work can stand.

You will recall that Elisha waited until God’s hand came on him before he gave the word to 3 kings in 2 Kings 3.

Secondly, the one giving the world may need to receive precise words which he or she will then releases over the situation at hand.

Another clue on what makes the bones live is that, the decree is given more than once.

Some of us faint in prayer because we don’t realize that the situation may require several blows in prayer.

Lastly, what are the chances of the bones becoming an army of God if they do live?

God will not invest in a project that brings no profit to His programme on the earth.