By Brother Godwin
Beloved,
Scripture: And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me (Exodus 8:28).
God had a promised land ready for his people but Pharaoh would not want them to get there. By telling them not to go far away, he wanted to make sure that he could always have access to them. Our destiny is divine life and we can only access it by the knowledge of God. 2 Peter 1:4 says Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. You are I are programmed to live the very life that God lives. Our words and deeds are programmed by God to depict divinity but that can only come through the knowledge and application of the word of God; through sailing out in search for God and his way of thinking and doing things. This way you stay far away from the enemy.
But you know what? The enemy would do everything to convince us that we should pray when our busy schedule permits; that we should study the word when we have time to spare. Friend, do you breathe when you have some time to spare? Moses while speaking to the Israelites told them that the Word; the study with practice of the Word is their life (Deuteronomy 30:20). In other words, if you do not apply it to your day to day walk, you are as good as dead. Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish (Psalms 49:20). Did you read that? The enemy will do everything to keep people at the fringes of God’s kind of life so that they will not enjoy the fullness of the divine life already available to them. Listen to this, you and I are not supposed to live and die like mere men. If we know who we are and do what we are supposed to do, the things that happen to men would not happen to us. True! Our being is God (Acts 17:28, Psalms 82:5-7). Eternal life is accessible through the knowledge of God. Stop staying at the fringes: get immersed.
‘Don’t go far away in God’, the enemy will say.’ Go to church when it’s convenient’. ‘Instead of going for a prayer meeting, go and visit a friend’. ‘Spend as must time as possible to watch television instead of spending time in the word of God’. ‘Don’t keep yourself pure, God understands’. These are suggestions of the enemy to keep us away from God’s blessings. ‘Keep your tithe’, the enemy will say. ‘The Pastor just wants to use your money to buy a new car or a new shoe’. ‘Discuss your Pastor and your fellow Christians’. ‘When you get to church, judge every single thing that is done’. ‘You are comfortable; those people that are always in church are those that have needs’. ‘Even if the Bible says it, this is not what you have practiced since you were born’. All these are the enemy’s ploy to negotiate away your dominion.
God’s eye is going to and fro the earth to show himself strong in the life of those whose hearts are perfect towards him (2 Chronicle 16:9). Friend, you will find God when you seek him with all your heart. You might not have a need now but you need God to keep that which you have. Get immersed.
Hear what Jesus said And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him (John 8:29). God was always the focus of Jesus Christ. To get the kind of result that Jesus had, we have to focus on God the way he did. This is what Jesus advised: If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him (John 14:23). Using another set of words, ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13).
Get immersed in God. Think, talk and do his word. Get immersed in God and watch to see how your life will be completely transformed. Do not negotiate away your divine position.
Godwin
