Are not five sparrows
sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very
hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than
many sparrows Luke 12:6-7NIV
Many still wonder why some prayers they have placed
before God have not received visible response or expressible indication that God
is doing something about them. This has led some people to conclude that God
does not love them as much as He loves others and in some cases they begin to
doubt that God actually exist. They imagine that if God really existed that, He
would have hurried up to solve the problems which they consider needed urgent
attention.
There are those who think that they are not
important enough for God to act on their cases. They still love God and remain
in the church but they have accepted a status which is not true about their
position in Christ. These kind have thrown their fate to the wind and they move
about mournfully
Let us piece up the text here
1. The
God who cares for common sparrows will care for anything. Yes, you are worth
more than sparrows and so be assured that God cares for you
2. Five
sparrows are sold for two pennies does not make God overlook them.
3. God
does not need the sparrows to remain God, rather it is the sparrows that need
God to survive. So God is dealing with the sparrows according to His benevolence,
not because of the financial worth of the sparrows
4. God
does not and cannot forget us. It is not in His character to just forget.
This word is coming
from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The Lord Jesus Christ says that we should
accept everything He said as direct from the father because He and the Father
are one. Any other spirit that tells you that God has forgotten you is from the
enemy of God; the devil. Rather God is dealing with important details of your
life and He is not focusing on your screaming or complaining. This is expressed
in the phrase, “the hairs on your head are numbered”. That means DETAILS. When
things are counted without being numbered, there may not be specific
information about them. Numbering them means that each of them gets specific
attention.
This means that God is
dealing with every area of your life and He is careful that urgent things do
not take the place of important things. Yes, this is where we make serious
mistake; we often give attention to urgent things because they are screaming
and jumping before us. In this way, many people have discovered only too late that
marriage should have waited so they can get good education. There are those who
discovered that if they only took more time to get a kind of training, instead
of rushing into quick money, they would not have lost their future and children
the way they did. God is dealing with us based on the whole picture and vision
of what He wants to work out in your life.
The first thing God
wants for you is that you secure your place in the book of life. You might have
spent the past twenty years praying to go abroad but God is focused on the fact
that if you don’t give your life to Christ, you will end up in eternal doom in
hellfire. Unfortunately, you may see things differently and so you are working
hard at other things. He is holding those things back because of the larger
picture. You might have been praying for political appointment but God wants
you to grow up spiritually so that you will be able to weather the spiritual
challenges associated to politics. But you may think otherwise and instead of
spending much time studying the word of God and to sit under sound bible
teachings, you are running from one prophet to another.
One other important
thing God wants every believer to have is the in-filling of the Holy Spirit.
Yet, many Christians are not focused on that. They are contented with what the
prophets will tell them. They are satisfied each time they are given a white
handkerchief or bottle of olive oil to pray with. God lays greater importance
on nothing else for the believer in Christ Jesus as He holds for our coming to
be filled with the Holy Spirit. A Christian without the in-filling of the Holy
Spirit is vulnerable endangered species of a human being. He is not safe! He is
not secured!
God wants us to be
filled with Himself. Holy Spirit is God indwelling you. He is the key and power
to pursue, overtake and recover all. God does not groom thumb suckers as His
children. All those thumb-sucking generation of Christians that we see
everywhere are living at discount of the grace of God.
Isaac and Rebeca spent
twenty years praying for fruit of the womb but God knew that they were not
ready for children. Yes, that you are ripe in age does not mean that you are
ripe in character. After much pestering and pleading, God gave them a pair of
twin. It became clear that they were not ready because they turned Esau and
Jacob into two rival political parties. The boys parted ways in a painful way
and they never were able to trust themselves because of divisive parenting
Are you praying for
life partner?
Are you praying for
financial breakthrough?
Are you praying for a
job?
Are you praying for elevation
in your social status?
Are you praying for contracts?
Whatever you are asking
from God, I want you to understand from today that God has no problem with
blessing you but He is looking at the whole details of your life.
Pray today that God
will fill you with Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit.
Halleluiah!
We can also see that
there is no way God will eventually lose us in the crowd. He knows us by our
number. Yes, if we are missing the counting will not tally.
Yes, hold that firmly!
No matter who God has blessed, your turn will come.
I believe that this is
what the Psalmist sees about God here.
He determines the
number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty
in power; his understanding has no limit Ps 147:4-5 NIV
Hey! If you are serving
the same God as I do, then rejoice because that is the God we are talking about.
Let me encourage you to
come in faith, come trusting and pray with all the confidence you can muster.
Who knows, this may be
you turn to celebrate
We have already started
to pray for you.
I will be glad to
receive your prayer REQUESTS.
Enjoy the day in God’s
presence and believe me, God knows you are there.
I have prayed for you
Emma your brother
emmanjnwosu@pnurnigeria.org
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