By Brother Godwin
Beloved,
Main scripture: For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars (2 Chronicles 16:9).
Main scripture: For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars (2 Chronicles 16:9).
Let me start by giving an illustration. The spot you are standing or sitting does not only have this message, it also has radio waves and television signals. Your lack of both the radio and television signals is not because those signals are not available. They are available. You lack them because either you do not have the appropriate equipment or if you have them, you are not tune to the exact frequency.
Your heart or your spirit is the equipment that connects to God (Proverbs 20:27). We are spirits but not all are connected to God. They are not connected because they are not perfect towards him. Just like the radio signals, God’s strength is anywhere man is but cannot be released in our lives until our hearts are perfect towards God. The perfect in this scripture also means true or complete. It refers to complete focus, absolute trust, not double minded. The blood of Jesus Christ has perfected us forever (Hebrews 10:14). So sin is not your problem or my problem. We are talking of the disposition of our hearts towards God. Do you accept that God means what he said in his Word?
Jesus never told anyone that came to him with a need to go and come back tomorrow. All that believed received. This is because the scripture says: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it (Proverbs 3:27). God the Judge of all the earth shall never do wrong (Genesis 18:25)? If he wants us to attend to anyone that makes a demand on us, he does likewise. But do we have absolute trust in him? Do we accept that what he says is true and that he means what he said? Is our heart perfect towards him?
Paul writing to the Corinthians made an important statement that I trust God to enter you today. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3). Friend, God’s Word is simple but true; God’s Word is simple but effective. It effectually works in them that believes it (1 Thessalonians 2:13); the heart that is perfect towards God. The challenges that come our way are not beyond God. In fact they are under our control. The weapons available to us are extremely powerful but work under one condition (2 Corinthians 10:3-5). You want to know the condition? And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled (2 Corinthians 10:6). The problem is not the challenge. The problem is not the weapon. The problem is our obedience.
I have found out from the scripture that our greatest obedience is to accept God’s word as true, and to think, talk and act as if it true. God told Joshua that the only courage he needed was the courage to obey him (Joshua 1:6, 7 and 9). This is faith: accepting God’s word as the final authority.
People would rather labor than accept the truth of God’s Word. For instance, people would rather emphasis that the woman in Luke 18 kept praying repeatedly than see the point Jesus was trying to make which is in verse 8. Shall God find faith in you that would allow him to work in your affairs? In other words, shall God find a perfect heart?
That you have what you prayed for is not the evidence that God heard you. I will explain what I mean. In Exodus 4 God told Moses to cast the rod in his hand before Pharaoh and it would turn to a snake but he did not tell him that Pharaoh’s magicians would also turn their rods into snakes. God did not tell him that his rod would swallow all the rods of the magicians. So the only evidence of victory that Moses had was that he did what God said. Once he did that, all other developments were taken care of (Exodus 7:10-12). You do not know that God has answered you because you have the answer. You know because you obeyed God. You know because you accepted his Word. The scripture says And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1 John 5:14-15). So we know that we have our answers because we asked according to God’s will (God’s Word). This is why Paul and Silas did not rush out of the prison when the doors were thrown open by the earthquake. The God that opened the doors could do it over and over again.
Friend, faith is the victory (1 John 5:4). Faith can bring the miracles over and over again. So do not leave faith and face the miracle. That is why people lose their miracles. The faith that produces it also preserves it. You will not lose your miracles in the name of Jesus Christ.
God wants to show himself strong in your life. He is only looking for a complete heart; a heart that sees God’s Word as the only thing that matters. I heart that accepts that the only unchangeable thing is the Word of God. A heart that believes and speaks. To do otherwise is foolishness.
Your hour liberty has come
