Thursday, September 21, 2023

TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN TAKE YOUR CROWN.


“I am coming soon. Hold on to the faith you have, so that no one can take away your crown is the exhortation that we have in Rev 3:11. We see that for each of us there is a crown that God has in store for us which we are supposed to receive when we finish the work that God has for us earth.  We will not receive it if we continue to live in sin and disobedience to God, and it may reach to a point in our lives if we continue in rebellion that God will give the assignment he had for us to someone else.

I heard of a testimony of one believer who a bible school teacher was telling some people that the work that he was doing of teaching in the bible school was not what God wanted him to do first. Gods wanted him to be a missionary but was unwilling and therefore he was living in Gods second best for him. This is true to many believers also who knew the will of God in a certain area but due to fear or caring what others would say  disobeyed God.

I also read another quote by Gladys Aylward  and this is what she said, ‘’I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'’

This has repeatedly happened in history, perhaps you have read about Reinhard and Richard Ngidi if not you can read it here   PRIDE- Life lessonsReinhard Bonnke and Richard Ngidi!!! – jesus lovers inc (wordpress.com)/

Ngidi worked with Bongke and he was the miracle worker and every time bongke preached , he stepped down for Ngidi for miracles and healing. One day he never appeared thinking himself to be the maker of Bongke, but God did not disappoint, that gift He gave to Bongke and he we never hear of Ngidi from then.

The bible says in Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’ Notice that it does not say that God will fulfill His purpose with the one he gives the opportunity first. God can use anyone it does not have to be his first choice, he will choose another.

There is an example in the bile also of Saul. We read in when king Saul offered the sacrifice which Saul was supposed to due to impatience, he said 1Sam 13:13
Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, FOR [IF YOU HAD OBEYED] THE LORD WOULD HAVE ESTABLISHED YOUR KINGDOM OVER ISRAEL FOREVER. God had a plan of establishing the kingdom of Saul forever but now He would choose someone else, and that was David.

1Sam 13:1, we read that Saul reigned over Israel for 42 years, and we also read that 2Sam5:4 that David was 30 years old when he begun to reign. Using the little maths that we know, we realize that Saul was a king for 12 years when David was born and by the time he was being rejected, David was maybe around 15 years, and that is to say that God waited for Saul for 27years before giving the ministry he was to fulfill to David. God is very patient with us but his patience has a limit.

David was thinking about building god a house and God said He will give that privilege to his son Solomon in 2Sam7. But then he said that He would establish his kingdom forever in 2Sam 7:16. We see, God has to test us if he has to commit to us a ministry.

 

Remember therefore, that if you continue in rebellion to what you already know in your heart that God wants you to do, He will not strive with you forever, He will give that ministry to someone else and still remain to be God. Be warned

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