What
you need to succeed is already there, just lean on God. For your
faith’s sake, GOD can disappoint the devil”–Archbishop Benson Idahosa
To be in
a church with life is living. Sometimes Pastors like Moses are not so
common. Pastors like Joshua, who can say to the Sun stand there until I
finished my message are not common. Pastors who believed in miracles are
what the church need today. When you read about Jesus, you are hearing
his word, when you read the bible. The words that came out of Jesus were
words of encouragement. He met a woman that was caught in the act of
adultery, Jesus did not catch her, men caught her and brought her to
him; men had stones but Jesus had mercy. It is easy to show sinners how
they have sinned; God is not looking for sin-pointers,
God is
looking for sin-forgivers. John the Baptist declared Behold the Lamb of
God who takes away the sins of the world. I showed you your sin but
Jesus takes it away. Men and brethren, whom will you follow if you were
made to choose?
A sin-shower or a sin-taker? Jesus showed the way out of
darkness, he does not put people in darkness. He sees the worst sinner;
he helped him out of sin. When Jesus was told his friend Lazarus was
sick, he stayed until four days and then told his disciples lets go and
wake him up.
No
Pastors talk like that today- Pastors sends condolence card while Jesus
wakes the dead up. The disciples said if he is sleeping there is no need
to trouble him let him rest in peace. Jesus said in your language it
means he is dead, let us go and wake him up. When he got to the gate of
the city there came Martha, In my understanding, she was saying, I gave
you water and food, sent people to tell you my brother was sick but you
never came, now he is stinking, if you had been here, my brother would
not have died. Jesus asked the most astonishing question that is missing
in the church today; where did you bury him? John 11:1-45. The question
is where you buried him and not where I should bury him. Jesus will
give you a question to challenge your faith to see how you will answer.
When he commanded the grave to be taken away instead of him looking at
the grave, he looked up and thank God. How can someone be in the grave
and you are thanking God for hearing you already?
When
there is no miracle, there is no Jesus. Lazarus was rotten but Jesus
said I specialize in rotten situation. No matter how rotten your
situation is, in business, in marriage, in your home, in health, in
education-there is a raiser of the rotten situation. In history and
science, Lazarus cannot come out bound in legs and hands. If you are
dead, your hands tied, your feet tied, you cannot come forth unless
somebody will bring you forth except a power beyond mans understanding
is in operation. Come forth is come force, a response to the power
beyond the power beneath the grave.
Lazarus
was decomposed, smelling and rotten according to the bible, how can he
come forth? Because the man whom you cannot ask questions is the one who
told him to come out. No pit is too deep that Gods hand is not beneath.
No high is most high to catch up with the Most High God. It is not
enough to get out of the grave, you better be loosed and go. If you come
out of the grave, that is step one. Step two, be loose to go. Don’t
come out of the grave and behave gravy. Don’t act like a man that is
still in the grave. Tell all who tied your faith down to loose you and
let you go. One miracle will discomfort all your enemies. If you preach
signs and wonders, you don’t steal converts, you make converts. If man
blackmails you; God will whitemail you. Every good and perfect gift
comes from above not from abroad. To be contd.
Archbishop Benson Idahosa
(Archbishop B. Idahosa was the founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria )
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