Life and Ministry
Sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi
Making friends with
God in advance
I believe that the best time to make friends with people is
when you don’t really need them to intervene in your cause.
Someone who befriends you for the sole purpose of drawing
something from you may not be a good material for friendship.
He or she is not the type you want to trust.
The problem is that they are likely to disappear once what
they needed you for is no longer there.
I am not sure you should make friends simply because you
will need them eventually, but you surely will.
As the saying goes, no man is an island.
Sooner or later, everyone comes to a mountain that is higher
than them.
Hezekiah became king over Judah and set himself to spiritual
reforms that had not been seen since the days of David and Solomon.
The Bible says, that it was because he had a perfect heart.
I think we will all need to ask God for this kind of heart.
Someone with this kind of heart comes to God because he or
she loves God and not because they need Him to meet a material need.
They are also the kind that God answers quickly in the day
of need or trouble (Heb 4:16)
Hezekiah loved, honoured and served God long before crises
broke out in his life.
He had formidable enemies at a later stage in his life
Senacherib king of Assyria was a terrible enemy but God
saved Hezekiah out of his hand.
Hezekiah also contracted a sickness that was going to kill
him but he called God and he saved/healed him.
The errors of a lot of church-going people are worth noting.
They don’t start taking God serious until serious problems
arise.
That is like a builder hurriedly trying to put a foundation
in place when the floods have already come.
Some have never loved the word of God but they expect the
word of God to comfort and heal them when trouble looms.
The only people who can gain confidence from God in the face
of a storm are those who had treasures of God’s word in their hearts, long
before.
How the devil prepares some for a fall.
By injecting an apathy for the word of God and fellowship
long before crisis time.
Those who never gave themselves to the service of anyone
when they were strong have deprived God of instruments to use to help them when
they are weak.
The devil also blocks the blessing of many good people by
blocking them from being a blessing with their finances.
Blessing actually means you sow and get more than you
deserve.
A curse means you sow much but get less than you put in.
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