God is interested in every minute details of your life

 *PNUR GLOBAL DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYERS* 

Thursday 31 August 2023

 *God is interested in every minute details of your life* 

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, He would have hurried up to solve the problems which they considered 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 that 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

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

Five sparrows are sold for two pennies, which does not make God overlook them.

 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

God does not and can not 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 that only too late that marriage should have waited so they can get a 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 appointments, but God wants you to grow up spiritually so that you will be able to weather the spiritual challenges associated with politics. But you may think otherwise, and instead of spending much time studying the word of God and sitting down to understand 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 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 lickers as His children. All those thumb-licking 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 social elevation?

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. 

On this holy day of PNUR GLOBAL DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYERS, come in faith, come trusting and pray with all the confidence you can muster.

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Enjoy the day in God’s presence, and believe me, God knows you are there.

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Emma, your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

What is God’s attitude to moneys given to servants of God?

 

You sent me aid again and again when I was in need. Not that I am looking for a gift, but I am looking for what may be credited to your account. Phil 4:16-17NIV

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. …. Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 2 Cor 9:6, 10-11 NIV

I welcome you to this glorious New Week and I pray the light and favor of God over you in Jesus name.

I want to use this opportunity to appreciate all PNUR Family and Partners for their support during the planning of PNUR International Prayer and Revival Convention – August Special. Thanks to all who sent us financial support and those who took out time to come in person.

Permit me to respond to an important issue. There are a lot of confusion going on in the Body of Christ owing to satan’s direct and indirect attack on the Church. Most of this attack would not have bothered us if they are not coming from people we respect as servants of God. These teachers who spread confusion speak with such boldness that it is difficult for one to observe the errors in their teachings. One of the most recent of these attacks is from Rev. Dr. Abel Damina, who claims that moneys and gifts given to servants of God has no heavenly reward. In his words, “Your tithe and offering to your Pastor does not get you a mansion in heaven but only serves your pastors to grow richer on earth”. By this he meant that giving to servants of God does not have eternal rewards.

Our text scriptures totally disagree with his position. Apostle Paul says that moneys and material things given to him earned some credit in their heaven-account. He urged his audience to give so that they will have something to draw from in their time of need. He said that he was glad that they gave to him as he did the Lord’s work because their gifts was on their credit before God. The phrase, “I am looking for what may be credited to your account’ is in the same sense as when some money has been put into someone’s bank account because of some service or work rendered somewhere. In the same sense, the one to whom such money has been credited will have the right to draw from the amount in the future. The Apostle Paul was not shy to express this and I am among those that is currently drawing from such sacrifices.

In the second scripture, he was bold to say that the amount we gave mattered. He said that if we give sparingly, we will reap according to what we have given. This point is important because there are those who see servants of God as, “poor and needy” and they express this in the manner and amount of their gifts to them. I warn servants of God never to receive any giving that places you on the same level as “less-privileged”.

Yet it is important that giving should not be forced. 

Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver 2 Cor 9:7NIV

Should we receive ministry support from the poor people? 

There is no discrimination in spiritual matters. Bible says that we open doors to receive if we give. Giving is like sowing and if you sow nothing, you cannot reap at the time of harvest. This is one of the principal reasons that the poor get poorer because they have nothing in their heaven-account. Here is an example of some poor people practicing giving and how Apostle Paul responded to it.

And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints. And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will. 2 Cor 8:1-5NIV

The Lord Jesus Christ supports that the poor should give and He even honors their great sacrifice in the practice of giving.

As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on." Luke 21:1-4NIV

According to the Lord Jesus Christ, a poor person that gave Ten Dollars from his Fifteen Dollars has given more than a rich man that gave One thousand Dollars from his One Hundred Thousand Dollars because of the percentage implication. 

Does God multiply our gifts and bless us accordingly? Yes He does!

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion

This is what the bible teaches Christians and whoever attacks this position is attacking the God of the bible. The person cannot still claim to be a Christian after he has countered this position.

Does God see our giving from heaven? Yes, He does!

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, "Cornelius!" Cornelius stared at him in fear. "What is it, Lord?" he asked. The angel answered, "Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God Acts 10:1-4NIV

Is it wrong for a servant of God to quit all his other jobs and depend on gifts from people? 

I have heard people say that servants of God should also get themselves secular jobs. It is easy to turn this into a doctrine in our narcissistic generation where most people see giving for God’s agenda as a burden. I want my readers to know that if we all do the ministry work like that, we will never have people who preach in mission fronts. We also won’t have people who plan conferences and crusades from country to country. As I write this, we plan to visit three countries before the end of this year. If I sit down in Port Harcourt tied down to some secular business, I will never be able to achieve this. There are different levels and dimensions of ministry and people should not use ministry as escape from working for a living, but everyone cannot combine their ministry with secular enterprise, otherwise the Great Commission will not be achieved in our time.

I want to also use this opportunity to warn my readers and encourage them to read their bible and not to always depend on the interpretation of other people for their conviction. Servants of God deserve our support financially and materially. God has promised to reward those that give to those of His servants who do the work of the ministry.

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward." Matt 10:42NIV

This is the prayer that Apostle Paul sent to those that supported his ministry and I pray the same for you.

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19NIV

Having said that, I pray that the Lord shall reward all that has supported us at PNUR over the years and I pray that God will make you rich in every way so you can continue to be generous in every occasion. 

I wish you a Happy New Week in Jesus Christ.

I love to hear from you.

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com