Stand Still

Matthew 8:23-27,

Most of the vices that have shown up in your life appearing as if they were ushered in by the forces of darkness to destroy your life were actually on divine mandate from God to prove that you no ordinary man.

To the sensual perception it appears as if the devil is operating violently against your life and that you are void of help.

However to the spiritual perception God is at work in your life using what is seemingly evil to expose to you and to every one around you in regards to how much power of God is rested upon your life.

 If you are looking for a place of power in an environment that is experiencing a destructive level of shaking and drastic falling apart then you ought to look out for a place that is standing still/ a people that is standing still.

This is so because if you are going to find someone standing still in an environment that is experiencing a fundamental destructive shaking then you have found a people and a place of power.

The place and the person that is standing still amidst a great shaking are both the reason and the purpose of the shaking and the falling part.

This concept is further reinforced by the idea that even though every thing around him is shaking and making a move entirely based on panic and anxiety he is standing still because he is able to impact his environment without the environment impacting him.

Jesus Christ had over 70 disciples and all of them did not have an intimate, personal intense relationship with him.

And all of them did not have an intimate, and personal relationship with him, all of them did not experience the impact of his person hood upon his environment as much as the different environments that he stepped into.

All his disciples were never able to come to the fullness of his unique personality because they would not stand it.

All of his disciples were not able to experience the revelation of his extra-ordinary existence because all of them would not stand still after experiencing it thereof.

If it’s to be put another way then it can be said that all of his disciples but the 12 disciples did not experience the revelation of his extra-ordinary existence because all of them would not stand it except the chosen 12.

They would not stand it or stand still after experiencing all that Jesus was without feeling offended without feeling scared, without feeling jealousy, envious, and without being tempted to hate him.

All of his disciples did not experience the understanding of his teaching because it came to them in parables.

All of his disciples did not experience the storms that came against Jesus as fundamental signs sent by God to really prove who Jesus was in this world.

The only disciples who understood the mystery of the parables, the only disciples who experienced the storms that came as a sign to prove that Jesus was truly the son of God enshrouded in the power of God were only but 12 disciples.

  

It was the 12 disciples who experienced the storms in the life of Jesus and upon experiencing these storms they were filled with fear, anxiety and panic until Jesus spoke a word of power (revelation) to the storm in order to calm the storm.

And immediately the storm was calm then they understood that he was truly the son of God, When the storm was calm, then they understood that they were walking with the very power of God in their amidst.

Many times when it is that God is with you, you will be accosted by fiercely raging storms and the people around you will be shaken, you will be forsaken and you will be back-stabbed.

However you have got to realize that the storm that first accosted you is not a mere storm but it’s a sign from God to prove that the power of God is rested upon your life.

The storm that has accosted you is not just a storm but it’s a revelation from God that the power of God is rested on your life.

And the people who walked out of your life were not going out on you because of a storm but they were going out on you because they can’t stand the power of God on your life.

 They can’t stand the articulate revelation of God that comes out of you.

The place of your storm is the place of revelation and power of God in your life and if the people who walked out on you knew that divine mystery then like the 12 disciples they would have stayed in the boat with you.

The 12 disciples of Jesus would have drowned out of panic upon being accosted by this raging storm however the thing that saved them was their ability to look to Jesus.

In whatever storm of life that you find yourself entangled, if you can look to Jesus then everything will be alright.

They would have stayed in your company and in that relationship had they known the divine mystery behind the storms of your life.

 Its here and now that you have to carefully consider, that whatever that is going against your life as of right now is only but a sign that you are extra-ordinary.

 There is a special, idiosyncratic, and a powerful assignment, anointing and appointment of God on your life and what appears as an element of destruction in your life shall not destroy you but rather it’s only going to bring to bear the power of God upon your life so that all will see and praise the LORD your God.

In the story of Prophet Jonah, it’s only but important to note that Jonah made the decision to run away from his assignment in God and took to sail in a ship as an ordinary individual even though he was far from ordinary.

And his extra-ordinary personality only comes to bear the moment the ship he was sailing in was accosted by a fierce storm.

And when his uniqueness was exposed those he was sailing with ended up praising God and offering unto God a sacrifice.

This was done because they caught themselves in a fierce storm and while they tried to sail against the storm in vain, and while they tried to entreat their gods to help them out of this desperate situation of being accosted by a violent storm Jonah was in the hold of the ship sleeping unawares of what was happening.

Thus the revelation that Jonah was no ordinary folk dawned unto the sailors the moment they realized that even though the storm was raging fiercely against them and that they were desperate, Johan was least bothered like he was in a different world.

 When the power and the assignment of God are rested on your life it will enable you to stand still even in situation where every body dares not to stand still.

In standing still there is a clear demonstration that one has power over the storms of life.

In not standing still there is a sign that the storms of life have control and power over your life.

The lack of faith is only but indicative of the fact that you are vulnerable to the circumstance and storms of life.

This is reinforced in Matthew 8:23-27 when the 12 disciples following in Jesus' trucks are accosted by a fierce storm and then their immediate response is deeply engrained in panic, fear, and intimidation.

 It is this reason that Jesus demands to know the where about of their faith upon recognizing the fear that had gripped his 12 twelve disciple after they experienced the storms.

Amidst the storm Jesus is non-reactive because he deeply comprehends the power for the life of him and the extent by which the power on his life can subdue the storm against his life.

Henceforth it’s imperative to appreciate that standing still only confirms to your storms that the power of God is rested on you.

Never make the mistake of acting on the fear of your enemy because only then do you give him power over your life.

  

However in acting against the storms of your life, then the actions should be bent on the complete understanding, wisdom, and knowledge in the lord your God.

Furthermore, the reason why it’s imperative for you to stand still seen when the storms of life are raging against you is in the fundamental wisdom, understanding, and knowledge that when is it that Jesus is with you and you are with Jesus nothing coming against you can be able to destroy you or cut you off from fulfilling the purpose and destiny of God upon your life.

Jesus has power over every storm in life and as long as you following him the storms of your life shall you overcome.

While in the boat, the storm came against Jesus and the 12 disciples, but the reason and the target of the storm was not the 12 disciples but rather the target of the storms was Jesus.

Henceforth it’s here and now that it’s important for you to consider that the storms against you, the people against you, the people who left you for dead, the people who walked out on you when you much needed them were really not against you but they were against your destiny and purpose.

They hated on you because they would not stand the purpose of God on your life.

If you had no purposes of God on your life then nobody would be against you and no storms would be raging against your life.

Thus stand still and know that God is more interested in his purpose over your life and fulfilling the same and he is committed full throttle in making sure that he fights for you in overcoming all the storms against your life.

Follow the Direction

Jeremiah 14:14

Psalms 25:8-10

In every generation and in every era, there are always some popular voices and unpopular voices in God.

Many times than not the popular voices have a proclivity to give a false sense of direction to the masses.

It never appears  like its false because its enticing to the ears, it’s what the sensual perception of the masses are readily and easily willing to accept and embrace because it promises that things are going to go your way in the name of God.

The unpopular voices struggle to align themselves with the attention of the masses because many times than not, they are driven and compelled by the spirit of the Lord to speak accuracy towards the circumstance and situations that the masses find themselves thereof.

The truth may many often times than not be the thing that you want to hear but it’s the truth and the truth is fundamentally absolute.

In doing the will of God as its inspired by the direction of God Almighty you are essentially executing the right action.

 However in executing the right action under pinned by doing the will of God as directed by God Almighty the consequences may not be always good or right before the understanding of your sensual perception.

It’s a scenario sometimes that can philosophically best be described as” doing the right thing, getting the wrong results”.

When you follow the direction of GOD Almighty and you experience injustice and wrong/ bad experiences, it does not necessarily mean that God lead you in the wrong direction.

What it simply implies is the fact that God can lead you into a direction to experience injustice so that he can equip you spiritually to understand that all things work together for good for those who are called according to the purpose of God.

The following of God’s direction fundamentally and essentially leads to the purpose of God for your life.

Many times when bad things happen to you after doing the will of God it’s only that God is trying to remind you that nothing has the power to stop you from executing the will of God.

To the extent that even if something bad happens to you in the wrong way after serving God with diligence you keep the praising going on because you understand that God has away to bring goodness to bear after bad has ensued.

When it is that you are following the direction of God and the direction that only God and the direction that only God issues then it’s all tantamount to walking with God.

When you are walking with God then you do not have to worry about where is it that you are going, because the reason why God is walking with you is to lead you into a place that he alone has prepared for you.

So God’s direction is symbolic to God walking with you throughout your journey on the face of the earth that he can bring to the goodness that he-God alone has prepared for  your life.

The will of God for your life is not designed to destroy you but is rather designed for you to use as a navigator to reach in the place that God alone has prepared for you.

Furthermore, it’s imperative to follow the direction of God because in doing so you prove that you have agreed yourself to walking with God and so that he can take you into his will for your life.

The will of God for your life is not designed to destroy you but to bring you to a place of no misery and no 

disappointment.

But on the contrary the will of God for your life has been designed carefully by God to bring you to a place of glory, victory, and honour.

Glory, victory, and Honour are guaranteed in your life the moment you submit yourself to the will and the direction of God.

There is a place of honour, glory, and victory that God Almighty has prepared for me and in order for me to get into this place that God has prepared for me, I need to follow his direction.

And once I get his direction and follow his direction then am walking with God as he leads me to my purpose and destiny.

Following my own sense of direction and my environment’s sense of direction and dictations will only lead me into a place of consequence.

A life of physical consequences is a life void of the direction of God and the grace of God Almighty.

There is a place that only God has prepared for you and you can only come into that place if you follow God’s direction.

It’s imperative for you to follow God’s direction so as to get in this wonderful place that he alone has prepared for you because this place is far better in value than any other place that man can prepare for you.

 In creating mankind the intention by God was of such that man is to be, “a going existence”.

Essentially that means that man was created by God to grow, to develop, to progress and to move from one level of operation to another.

Man is far unique from angelic beings whose existence is only but still.

Angels neither grow, nor develop for they have no reason to develop and grow.

Henceforth if man is designed by God to grow, and to move from one level of operation to another that means that the anxiety that comes to man whenever they feel like they are not growing or developing is only but a divine demand.

To do something about the desperate situation of non-growth, and in order for man to move away from the anxiety and desperation born from the idea of lack of growth and development, man needs direction.

Direction to help him make growth and development, they seems to be many directions in life but if we are to speak of an idiosyncratic direction designed for you by God then that direction ultimately comes from God.

 In seeking the will of God for our lives we eventually come across divine direction for our life.

And once we follow that direction that comes as a result of seeking God’s will for our life then we in return fulfilling the purpose of our existence upon the face of the earth.

Circumstances won’t destroy you

Jeremiah 13: 10

Circumstance of all variegated manner are as organic as the air that we breathe, In other wards as long as you live than you are without doubt bound to interface circumstances.

However how you deal with the circumstance of life largely depends on the path you choose to follow in life.

If you choose to follow the path  of  your own desire like the Judeans and the Israelites did in Jeremiah 13: 10 did then the circumstance of life are going to come all out on you full throttle leaving you at a place of 

constant struggle.

Whoever follows after their own desires will ultimately be rendered good for nothing by the circumstances of life.

The circumstances of life render him that walks down the path of their own desires; good for nothing because when you walking after your own desire you obviously walking outside the will of God.

It can never go without saying that the destruction of any given individual begins with the individual’s choice to walk down the path of his very own desires.

Every now and then you choose to walk according to your own desires then your life is much akin to the linen loincloth that Jeremiah hid in a hole in the rocks as per God’s instruction.

The life of you is much akin to the linen loincloth because by the time Jeremiah dug it out of the hole where he had hid it; it was rotting and falling apart and good for nothing.

To avoid walking according to your own desires is to prevent destruction upon your life; it’s to avoid rotting away and falling apart in life.

 However the fundamental reason why the circumstances of life will not destroy you is based on the truth; that, since you are walking according to the desires of God no circumstance shall render you insignificant but rather every circumstance that befalls you will only but make you more relevant than never before.

He is Looking for the Least

 Mark 1:9

 The city of Nazareth was the kind of city which was regarded by many religious bigwigs as the very least on the religious radar of the New Testament times.

 It was regarded the very least because throughout its historical course nothing worthwhile ever emerged out of the very course of  history as regards to the city of Nazareth.

However the history of Nazareth is defied when it says in Mark 1:9, that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and John Baptized him in the river Jordan.

Picture this, here is Jesus the greatest man ever to walk across the face of the earth and he comes from Nazareth the least city in the entire Nation.

Consequently it’s here and now that we understand that greatness always emerges from the least expected localities.

The least have the propensity to bring forth the greatest God-experience to be witnessed in the earth.

Henceforth God is looking for the least of the 21st century because he understands that in the very least of the 21st century there is a level of God –greatness never witnessed on the earth of the earth.

God never looks for what he can’t find because by the time God decides to look for something he knows where to find it because whatever God is looking for was laid in the least by God even before the foundation of the earth.

In other wards God is looking for the least because he laid up something in their being that is going to shift the entire universe into an intimate place in God that the universe has never been.

God has looked at the least of the 21st century and stretched forth his hand upon the least of the 21st century so that no trouble and danger will be able to penetrate in order to get to them.

There is God greatness laid –up in your being and its pivotal for God’s hand to be on your life so that no enemy will stretch forth his hand to destroy you.

The reason why you are surrounded by a multitude of enemies, haters and saboteurs and none of them has been able to destroy you is because the hand of God is looking out for you.

The hand of God is looking out for you even though it seems to be that you are the very least upon the face of the earth.

Once the hand of God is over your life and looking out for you, many times than not the people who are supposed to support you will turn to sabotage you.

They will turn to sabotage you because they can notice and feel that the hand of God is over your life.

The hand of God is a metaphor for the grace, the favor, and the spiritual gift of God, the mercy, and the revelation of God.

When the hand of God is on your life the people who are supposed to love you will join the club of your haters because they can feel the enveloping presence of God upon your life that is a far-reach for them.

 Jesus reinforced in the argument among the disciples on the topic of who was going to be the greatest among them by earmarking that the greatest among then was going to be the least.

In other wards greatness always emerges from the least.

 Thus if you have been feeling least lately it’s only because God has chosen you for greatness.

And God is looking for you to use you as his witness on the face of the earth.

The Post Adamic World

Genesis 1:27

Genesis 3:14

Psalms 136:4

Immediately after the end of the pre-Adamic world God in all his mighty consideration and deliberation reached out towards the earth.

The same earth that God created in the beginning of all things ever created, and in reaching out towards the earth, God was not looking out for gold, silver, diamond, and platinum but rather he was looking out for the red dust of the earth.

Many times than not when God is looking for someone he looks for them in a direction that many people are not looking.

There is a place and there is someone that God is looking for right now in order for God to use that particular individual in a manner that is far idiosyncratic than ever.

However the direction God is looking is far from usual.

 It’s a direction that many prefer to ignore and to bypass because they think nothing worthwhile can ever emanate from that direction.

Something idiosyncratically mighty is getting ready to emerge out of your life and the people around your life have no clue what is getting ready to emerge out of your life.

The isolation that you have endured is only but a sign that God has been looking for you in order to reach out towards you and cause greatness to emerge out of you.

Indeed the odds against your life are way mighty than you can fathom.

However Psalm 136:4 argues,” Give thanks to him (God) who alone does mighty miracles”.

God is about to do a mighty miracle in order to defy the mighty odds against your life (just give God thanks). 

And when God does this mighty miracle all the greatness that is rested in your belly is going to emerge and nothing will be able to stop you no more.

When God Almighty is on your side your greatness can’t be hidden.

Folk may ignore it, discredit it but it won’t be hidden and in fact God will bring people into your space that will honor and give worthy credit unto your greatness.

After reaching out towards the earth God picked the dust of the earth and formed a vessel for the man he had hitherto created in genesis 1:27, and crowned man with victory, glory, and Honor.

Upon doing this, the ground under Lucifer’s feet shook, and vibrated and from that moment on feelings of rejection, defeat, and denial arrested Lucifer.

This was so because Lucifer failed to understand why God would crown man-(a vessel from the dust of the earth-) with glory, victory, and Honor.

The dust of the earth is a metaphor for a low status, and a status of imperfection thus Lucifer would not understand why God would bestow glory, Honor, and victory unto an individual that was of low estate and imperfection.

 Henceforth it’s here and now that I want to draw your attention to the reality that God is about to do something in your life that will leave many perplexed and confused, Wondering why in the world do you operate in so much power of God, in so many blessings of God, in much glory of God, in so many victories of God, in so much honor of God.

 Even when you come from a background of a low estate, even when your physiology make-up is not worth that much, from now onwards many people are going to be scratching their heads wondering why God choose you above them, but even when they do not know why, you of all people should know that God choose you above else in order for you to be of good service to them indiscriminately.

However you should be aware that the people around your life are ignorant of the reason why God choose you.

And because they are ignorant do not be surprised when they hate you and endeavor to sabotage you instead of loving you and supporting you.

When God anoints someone when people lest expect.

Just like God crowned man with victory, glory, and honor at a time when Lucifer lest expected it. Many times than not there is always a feeling of rejection, defeat, and denial which takes control of the people who live around God’s anointed one.

And when these feelings are acted upon, they always result into consequences that are similar to the cause.

Lucifer felt rejected when God favored man and when he acted on his feelings, he sabotaged man without realizing that he was actually offending God.

And when Lucifer offended God he was banished from the very presence of God.

While in the Garden of Eden the serpent was possessed by Lucifer in order to manipulate man into disobeying God.

And in doing so the serpent was cursed by God just like Lucifer was cursed by God for feeling rejected, defeated, and denied upon man’s begetting of the crown of victory, Honor, and glory from God.

Hence Lucifer acted upon the aforementioned feelings, he offended God by way of trying to sabotage man.

During the course of the pre-Adamic world, there was no form, however in the Adamic world there was the introduction of form.

The pre-Adamic world emerged with the servants of God, the Adamic world emerged with the men of God and finally the post Adamic world emerged with the sons of God.

 
The sons of God are those who have overcome evil inclinations (bad feelings and motives) and are led by the spirit of God Almighty in the name of Jesus