Nothing Outside His Knowledge
I was going through my WhatsApp messages, trying to clean up my phone.
I stumbled on a message I sent to my wife when for unexplainable reasons I was refused boarding on a flight.
The airline staff refused to allow me on the plane claiming that I didn’t have the needed documentation to fly. I showed him everything and he still refused.
It was a connecting flight so I had to spend the night in that city.
The Forgotten Believers’ Authority
The biggest benefit reading a book can give you is the transformation of your mind and the courage to live out what you have just read.
I get that inspiration now and again when I read spiritual books. It excites me when I hear of others who do the same.
I was listening to Pastor Bankie when he talked about his experience some years back after reading Kenneth Hagins‘ book “The Believers’ Authority“
The book opened his eyes to the authority that the Christian had to change some of the events happening around him or her.
After reading the book, he was in a place where someone was saying blasphemous things about the church. He didn’t know what he could do to stop him.
He said he walked out of the room and prayed that the blasphemous spirit should stop.
When he went back in, the guy had stopped saying blasphemous things and saying what was in keeping with correct Christian teaching. And the guy was not even a believer
Another time, he said he was staying in a room that had neighbors who were always having constant fights and arguments.
After enduing the non-stop disturbance, he prayed that there would be peace. And as it happened, for the next 2 weeks, there was not a single argument or fight from the once-noisy-neighbors.
It reminded me how I spend so much time trying to talk people out of certain actions or decisions instead of just praying
Sometimes, prayer is the real work we should do to change situations and minds
The Misunderstood God
I listened to a preacher say that God doesn’t do bad things. According to Him, bad things are as a result of sin and the devil
This sounds like a good thought but it is just not Godly thinking. And don’t worry, I used to be on this side of the divide for a bit until I came to see all of God.
When I started seeing all of God, I came to understand that God does not excuse Himself from bad things.
You Can Pray For The Persecuted Church
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. In case you don’t know, persecution is still a daily reality for a lot of Christians even in the modern age.
“According to statistics, persecution is the daily reality of at least 100 million Christians around the world,” says Godfrey Yogarajah, executive director, World Evangelical Alliance, Religious Liberty Commission. “These Christians, who face routine harassment and difficulties, often suffer in silence and isolation”.
What Happens When Christians Think God Is Not Good
I bet you have heard testimonies like this in church. “I was in need of so-and-so. I prayed but nothing happened. Then I did this-and-that or gave a seed-faith and voila, God did it.” Then not too long afterwards, we hear a sermon corroborating the testimony asking us to practice some form of action to “move God” to do whatever we need.
I think I am finding out every day that we (I included) don’t really know what it means to have God as our father. You see, if this is the way God is, then we have a dysfunctional dad in the family. I bet you know in your heart that God is not a dysfunctional dad and He is the standard by which all other dads should be measured.