SECRETS OF GODLY MEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

God has not changed and will never. He is never partial. What He did for others, He can do for you and me if we fulfill the same conditions that the others did. It is therefore wise if we can see the qualities that some of the godly men in the old testament had that made God use them as He did. If we acquire these same qualities, then God will be able to use as He used these old testament saints, not to accomplish what He accomplished, but to accomplish what God desires to accomplish through us.

1. ABRAHAM

We know him as the father of faith. God called him out of an idol worshipping nation where he was born to go to where God was to take him. This can be a picture of how God calls us out of the world into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ.

We read in Gen 24:40, when he was sending his servant to find a wife for his son Isaac, he told him THE GOD BEFORE WHOM I WALK will send an angel… this is the secret of Abraham. He walked before God. If God is to accomplish anything in and through us, we must learn to walk before God. This simply means, walking and doing everything realizing that God is watching you. The things you do in secret, the way you treat your juniors, how you speak, what you read or even watch in the TV and everything. If we do it in an awareness that God is watching us, we’ll cleanse ourselves from a lot of things that we’d not want God to see us doing. 2Cor 7:1, 1John 3:3

2. ELIJAH

Elijah just appears in the bible when is a prophet. We know nothing of his parents or his youthful life or his dealings with God, but the bible has not left us without revealing what the secret of his power with God was. In 1Kings 18:15 he says, as the Lord lives BEFORE WHOM I STAND… if we are to have power with God, we must stand before God. This simply means to first listening to Him and then God and also means waiting for His approval in everything. We are always in a hurry but God is waiting for us to give us His instructions on what He wants us to do. We can never accomplish anything of eternal value if we do not learn to first listen to God and seeking His approval in everything. We are mostly worried by what men say or think of us. This is the main reason we do not have even faith. John 5:44. Let’s learn to listen and seek Gods approval only.

3. MOSES

Moses is another man God used mightily. It is written in Num 12:7 that He was FAITHFUL IN ALL THE HOUSE OF GOD. Yes, faithfulness in the house of God is a requirement if we are to be used in fulfilling Gods purpose for our lives. We are the house of God, Heb 3:6. We must be faithful in every part of our body not to give it to sin, Rom 6:13. Our eyes, our tongue, our thoughts, hands and every part of our body together with everything we have must be used for the glory of God.

4. DAVID

David is known as the man after Gods own heart, 1Sam 13:14. In Acts 13:22 we read that… HE WILL DO ALL THE WILL OF GOD. Many Christians say that they want to do the will of God, but very few say that they want to do ALL the will of God. This was David’s secret, he sought for the will of God and did all of it, whether it was convenient or not. It must be so if our lives are to be used maximally for God, we must decide once and for all to seek to know and to DO ALL THE WILL OF GOD in our lives whether it is convenient or not.

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