I’m grateful to the Lord for his joy in my heart. Without the joy of the Lord, no one would be committed to God’s assignment.
Like Paul would say: Through the Lord’s comfort we comfort others.
He takes care of our needs in marvelous way so we can stand for him.
*Introduction
I have a discussion with a brother. The outcome becomes the icebreaker of this topic. He was attending a very large church.
In one of the church monthly programs a woman stood and asked a bold question:
We have been praying monthly for God’s choice of good and godly leaders for the nation since I was a young girl. Now I’m married and raising children, yet leadership in this country is getting worse by the day.
Does it mean God is not answering players?
This is similar experience from nation to nation.
On earth, God needed man just as man needed God to execute plans and purposes on earth.
*My response:
Prayer (faith) without work is dead on arrival.
‘Spirituality’ without earthly relevance leads to slavery and loss of dominion/territory…
God wants his people in dominion and in place of headship.
All we need is appropriation of his promises and taking our place to salvage the world, nations and cities.
Isaiah 58:12 KJV
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Looking at this scripture, we will discover that man is shouldered with the responsibility to build and repair.
What prayer does is it energizes and make us competent and worthy to do the Lord’s work.
*We pray and fail to act, then blame God for the woes in the societies.
We need to know that the children of darkness cannot deliver light. By their fruits we shall know them. So the responsibility of light lies with children of light.
Think of it, the devil energizes his own and they boldly take over and dictate how the show runs.
They promote homosexualism, abortion, Covid-19 fears, terrorism and the like boldly.
Pray till tomorrow and next and next, orange tree will not yield apple.
This is Christ’s illustration not mine.
So why our prayers have not been answered is because they are done wrongly…
So the reason why the Bible asks us to ARISE and shine…
What do we need?
Faith and confidence to arise and shine.
To change the darkness on our land, it will take the light of God’s children to permeate the darkness around.
If Satan’s kids are not afraid why should the children of God.
A little intimidation we run hiding… We don’t want to die.
Christ said if you save your life you’ll lose it, but if you lose it to the kingdom you’ll save it.
What use is being a slave a lifetime and also subjecting next generation.
Long life without impact is emptiness.
Generational slavery is bequeathed to those who cannot stand for what is right.
Israel has a culture, they don’t endure slavery timidly. At the worst state of prostration, they look forward to the saviour… The Messiah.
If you run a church, ministry or Christian organization, deliberately raise giant killers… The David’s.
I remembered how Obama and Cameron both campaign for gays you’ll know that they are meeting the demands of their sponsors
Raising leaders who unseat demonically inspired leaders by the Christian community should be intentional.
Satan’s team don’t leave things to chances. Why would Christian?
*In a nutshell:
1. Let Christians begin to sponsor credible leaders.
2. Let Christians make themselves available to lead.
3. Let Christians vote for the right candidacy and policies.
Some years ago, I have a Christian brother. He talked badly about poor leadership in their labour union. I told him that is reason for him to rise.
He answered by telling me the evil power and Voodoos these ones control.
Then I began to ask… Is Christ powerless?
We all have roles to play.
Christ is not powerless… We are the one who lacked the faith to act.
Very true, they lacked power of effective prayer…
When Elijah prayed he confronted Ahab.
When David was anointed he confronted Goliath…
Christians should pray and then receive the direction to act…
So God will do only what he would do.
Then through prayer, we would do what God assigned us do.
Last week we talked about our place for prayer…
This week we deal with our role for ACTION…
Next week by God’s grace we shall look at scriptural examples.
What’s your role in this?
1. We want men who pray for different offices… To curtail excesses of demonically inspired leaders and to pray for emergence of godly leaders.
2. Individuals should also rise to act as God’s representatives in nations just like Joseph, Elisha, David, Joshua, etc.
Thank you brethren for joining me… It’s time we raise a world team to change our world.
God bless us all in Jesus name.
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WALE ADEWUMI
