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.