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God wants to get involved in your challenges

By Archbishop (Dr.) Olanrewaju OBEMBE
08 April 2018   |   3:05 am
The God of the Bible is not an abstract God. JEHOVAH GOD is Tangible, Alert, Alive and Active. He knows all things. He is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent.

Archbishop (Dr.)<br />Olanrewaju OBEMBE

The God of the Bible is not an abstract God. JEHOVAH GOD is Tangible, Alert, Alive and Active. He knows all things. He is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. There is nothing you are going through that He does not know about. He has made adequate provisions to obliterate your pains, challenges and predicament. God does not distance Himself from whatever you are going through. Psalm 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength, a VERY PRESENT help in trouble.” The moral Integrity and Holiness of God compels Him to act on the behalf of those who trust in Him.

Nahum 1:7 “The LORD is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble. HE KNOWS (RECOGNISES, HAS KNOWLEDGE OF AND UNDERSTANDS) THOSE WHO TAKE REFUGE and trust in Him.”(AMP) He recognises and welcomes all those who take refuge in Him. He will not relate with you on the basis of your shortcomings. He did not abandon Meshach, Shedrach and Abednego. For you to get God’s involvement, you have to invite Him and follow His instruction, which becomes your direction. More importantly, God wants to get involved with your challenges and with your permission. God will not violate your personal dignity by super imposing His intervention on your life without your consent. The Scripture declares God’s readiness and willingness to always help us when we call upon Him in our time of crisis. (Psalm 50:15) Our prayers to God must be Scriptural, Strategic and Solution-based.

We are to follow God’s prescriptions and instructions. There are FOUR STRATEGIC WAYS to pray right now for you to get DIVINE INTERVENTION: (1) PRAYING IN FAITH: Matthew 21:22 “And ALL THINGS, whatsoever ye shall ASK IN PRAYER, BELIEVING, ye shall RECEIVE.” God does not answer prayers that are prayed in unbelief. God answers only prayers that are PRAYED IN FAITH. James 5:15 “And the PRAYER OF FAITH shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” The PRAYER OF FAITH will heal the sick, raise the dead and produce forgiveness. Mark 11:24 “Therefore I say unto you, WHAT THINGS soever ye DESIRE, when ye PRAY, BELIEVE that YE RECEIVE THEM and ye SHALL HAVE THEM.”

Today, choose to pray in faith and God will answer your prayers speedily. (2) PROPHETIC PRAYING: Ezekiel 37: 9-10 “Then said He unto me, PROPHESY UNTO THE wind, PROPHESY, SON OF MAN, and say to the wind, thus saith the LORD GOD; Come FROM THE FOUR WINDS, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live; So I prophesied as He commanded me, and THE BREATH CAME INTO THEM, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY.” Most times God wants us to declare His Counsel over our situation and circumstance. We are to walk by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we walk BY FAITH, not BY SIGHT.” PROPHETIC PRAYING is declaring the Word of God over our situation, irrespective of whatever it is. We are to prophesy God’s Word irrespective of the negative challenges that we face.

We are to take sides with the Word of God and not with our negative challenges. In Prophecy, we call into existence what has not existed. As we keep on calling what God has commanded, we shall see the manifestation and the products of our prophetic declaration. (3) PROPHETIC PRAISE: Psalm 50:23 “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.” Psalm 37:4 “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Psalm 106:12 “Then BELIEVED THEY HIS WORDS; they SANG HIS PRAISE.” We are to praise God for what we have not seen. Abraham did that, the Israelites did that at the wall of Jericho and Paul and Silas did that in their time of crisis and Heaven responded to them.

Today, engage in prophetic praise; praising God for what you have not seen and God will grant you the desires of your heart. (4) PUBLIC PROCLAMATION: Job 22:28 “You shall also DECIDE AND DECREE a thing and it shall be established for you and the light of God’s favour shall shine upon your ways” (AMP). The Word of God expects us to decide, decree and declare what we believe we have received. Micah 6:1 “Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and LET THE HILLS HEAR THY VOICE.” The mountains must HEAR OUR VOICE. You are to speak the Word of God publicly on what you believe you have already received. You will surely possess your possession. God will surely get involved in your situation and circumstances.

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