As believers, it appears to me that one scripture we often turn away from is the first scripture below. Our principal problem is the fact that we know what we want to hear and pursue that agenda so vigorously we lose sight of the God we started out with and refuse to test every spirit as He instructs in
1 John 4: 1NLT “Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.”
This is a Godly instruction which even the times compel us to obey because every evil work currently abounds and one of the secrets to victory is sensitivity to the Spirit of God; the sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. Indeed it is the wise thing to do when we meet a person(s) or get in the midst of a people, church and/or any organization so that one can immediately discern what spirit is at work therein. We cannot be guided by what we see not even by intense manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which I am by no means undermining, but the bible enjoins us to test all things.
1 Thessalonians 5: 19-22NLT “Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not scoff at prophecies, but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every kind of evil.”
The most fearful thing is the fact that everybody seems to want to do something that has never been done before. In our desperation to achieve this goal we unwittingly find ourselves out of the Godly sphere. Unfortunately, there is no middle sphere so when we leave the Godly sphere, we move into the devil’s sphere. So that as men and women wanting so desperately to be in the forefront, we have to be careful to operate within God’s predefined limits. Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived, says there is nothing new under the sun. All we see has been and shall be again for as long as Jesus tarries so that we don’t search too hard for “the new”. Just in case this helps, you can’t be the first person that ever did it
Ecclesiastes 1: 9-11NLT “History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. We don’t remember what happened in the past and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.”
Another reality we must accept in life is that God reserves the right either to withhold or reveal information regarding our future. The desperation to know the future and control it is so strong and Satan is truly capitalizing on it. I think we have to realize more than ever before that our walk is one of faith. The most important thing is to ensure that God is with you and I through the journey of life. If He is with us, it does not matter how dark the tunnel we have to go through or how deep the valley we fall into, He is able to be a light to us and also bring us out of the valley unto a higher mountain. To think it is okay to force the hands of God to reveal to us what He in His wisdom thinks should be kept from us is foolery. Even I have tried several times in all my foolishness, hoping that He would show me in a dream like a movie but He does as He pleases. I have learnt to stay with what he tells me and maybe “glean” a little of the future from it.
Please let us be circumspect so that we do not willingly submit to the devil the authority we have over our lives because of an agenda that he can’t help us with. Let us begin to check what spirit we submit to.
A clarion call to the body of Christ - in the last days, even the very elect shall be deceived. A word is enough for the wise.
ReplyDeletePeople of God need to be confronted with this cankerworm that is eating into the fabric of the Household of God - this inordinate and ungodly desire to 'know' the future for all the wrong reasons; the pursuit of prophets and dreamers, to the detriment of a sound, enduring and progressive relationship with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.