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.