Life and Ministry
Sharing with Pastor Dapo Adeniyi
This is one of one millions ways in which God is manifestly
greater than the idol.
The Lord sees.
The Lord knows.
The Lord hears.
The Lord even speaks.
These are the reasons why He is a person we can know and
build a relationship with.
Just like the way we relate to men, we can and should build
our relationship with Him.
God also has a will.
Idols on the other hand don’t have a will.
The will of man is the will of the idol.
Since men made idols, they also create the will of the idol
for him.
Anytime a Christian starts to think whatever he or she
desires is equal to what God desires, he or she is worshipping an idol.
We did not create God.
He made us and therefore is in a position to reveal His will
to us.
When we are born into God’s family, we become aware of God
in a way similar to how a child grows in his awareness of the natural world.
We are filled with love for God.
We are filled with awe for God.
We are overcome by His power and majesty.
This especially happens when we come into His house to
worship Him.
We are also given a stomach for receiving the word of God
and for digesting it and growing through it.
Just like milk is to a natural child.
One eternal sign of someone who is not yet born into the
family of God is that they don’t care about God’s word.
It simply means nothing to them.
To a child of God however, nothing in the world is more
precious than God’s word.
A Christian lady was asked to imagine she was marooned on a
lonely island after a shipwreck and therefore is to choose 3 things for her
survival.
She chose her Bible, fresh water and a blanket!
Nothing is more uphill or difficult than for someone who is
not born of God to try to call on God for help.
It is more difficult than for a man in a great valley below
to call upon his friend on the mountain top.
Someone whose soul has been saved loves to pray.
They particularly love to pray with others who are alive to
God as well.
How does someone who calls on God know that God has heard?
First is by receiving inner peace.
Sometimes solution to a problem consists of us doing
something in particular in the situation and Jehovah will speak about it.
Change in the natural realm often comes last.
Even though Jehovah knows, He still wants us to call.
Calling on God sharpens our awareness of Him.
Calling on God deepens our fear for Him.
People don’t fear God for the simple reason that they don’t
know Him.
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