The system of this world is designed in such a way that people will chase money into the grave and miss the real thing. This is vanity of all vanity. Where do you need money? The only place where you can spend money is here. A departing soul goes with nothing except HOPE. That hope is either a dead hope or a lively hope depending on your connection with Jesus. The worst tragedy is to face eternity without Christ.
A lot of people are succeeding to fail because of deceased perception of reality. The worst failure is to spend eternity in hell! There are too many ‘Adamic’ Christians in the world today. You must crucify the old man; the old man needs to die. This message is no longer popular today.
Unfortunately, the message of the cross has been consigned to only Good Friday. It is at the cross that you crucify the flesh, the world and all the things that need to die – lust and so on so that you can be like Christ, so that you can say like Apostle Paul did in,
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I life by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”.
Galatians 2:20 KJV
The crucified way is the bride’s message. This is the only message that can guarantee you comprehensive success here, and hereafter.
Sadly, many preachers fail to preach it, they prefer to go into motivational messages because that is what people prefer to hear – ‘you can do it’, ‘think like a millionaire if you want to be a millionaire’, ‘my God is not poor’ and so on. The Church will be fully attended once this kind of message is preached. People are giving in order to get! As long as you give, you will get. It is a law. That you are blessed when you give does not necessarily mean that you are righteous! Unbelievers who give also get. It is a natural law. The slippery part of the prosperity message is – does your giving make you a child of God? The bride’s message remains the only message that guarantees you comprehensive success. By comprehensive success, I mean, to succeed here and hereafter. If you say no to the things that are choking the life of God out of you, heaven will bless you with something that will give you comprehensive success. “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it” (Prov. 10:22). Whenever you see doors opening, always remember to ask God – ‘are you in it’? May you not drink the wine of success that will take you out of the presence of God in the name of Jesus. That wine is nothing but poison, may you not drink it in the mighty name of Jesus.
Pray –
- Father, make it impossible for me to drink the ‘wine of success’ that will take me outside of your purpose for my life. Do not allow me to drink the ‘wine of success’ that will take me out of your presence in the mighty name of Jesus.
- Help me to always be at the right place at the right time. Give me the grace to be right at the centre of your will in every facet of my life, to walk with you and to enjoy your presence in the name of Jesus.
- May I be a person who enjoys your presence in the name of Jesus.
- Lord, I want to hear your voice clearly. Speak to me. I want you to guide me through the skillfulness of your hand till I become all you want me to be and accomplish all you want me to accomplish.
- Help me never to put the wrong foot forward, help me not to misstep. Help me not to be encumbered. Help me not to be drawn away by the corruption that works in this world by lust in the name of Jesus. Thank you ancient of days. Through you I shall do valiantly in Jesus’ name.
Anywhere the presence of God is, mountains move. There is the power of the presence of God that moves mountains. Never forget that God is a consuming fire; fire that burns oceans dry and that can melt any metal no matter how strong, that is the kind of fire we are referring to. It is a fire that makes the weapons of our adversaries useless in their hands. This fire dissolves doubt. There is absolutely nothing too difficult for God to do when he steps in and takes over the battle.
TO BE CONTINUED.