“Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land”. 2nd Chronicles 7:12 - 14
It
is possible for us as God’s people to be wicked, to be proud, to commit sin,
and to live disconnected from God. This is clear from the above scripture.
It is the word of God that has affected us
that can affect anyone through us. The things we have heard, we have seen, and
we have handled is what we can easily communicate to others. We can be in God
and still be operating in wickedness.
God
said He will heal the land if His people will humble themselves, and pray, and
seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways. So the state of any land per
time is a direct reflection of the state of God’s people there. God ties the
healing or deliverance of a land, to His people. What NIGERIA is crying out
for, is not lack of Nigerians but lack of CHRISTIANS, not church goers but
those who are Christ -Like. For once, let us stop shifting the responsibility
to others and looking for who to blame. We are responsible for the state of our
Nation. We need to repent and turn to
God for light. Until God’s light comes we remain blinded to all our evils and
ills. God is a God of ORDER, He will not go contrary to the order He has set in
place.
“The heavens even the heavens are the Lord's; But the
earth He has given to the children of men”.
Psalms 115:16
THE HEALING OF THE LAND IS TIED TO GOD’S PEOPLE, HIS
CHURCH
If
we really humble ourselves, then we will seek God’s face and we will know what
to repent of and pray for. God says the ills of the land are tied to our wicked
and evil ways. If we all begin to do things right, gradually, the evil and
wickedness will reduce. Others will line up and follow suit. Nobody’s error
justifies our being wrong.
We
are not going to see a change in our nation and in our day until there's a change
of our attitude to Life, to authority, to rebuke, to corrections, to
instructions and teachings.
These
are the keys to breaking off generational curses, limitations, old order etc
and enforcing generational blessings.
As
long as we follow the lifestyle of our old life we cannot escape its outcome,
and that lifestyle is a product of the way we think.
We
are born again but we now have the responsibility of retraining our minds to
begin to think the way of the new life in Christ we have come into. This is
where the real work is. If you do not renew your mind and retrain it, the
experiences of the old life and old pattern can still be yours.
UNTIL THERE IS A CHANGE IN US, THERE CANNOT BE A CHANGE
AROUND US
ATTITUDE TO LIFE
ATTITUDE: Our body language, the position of the body, way of carrying oneself.
ATTITUDE
can also be defined as the disposition or the state of the mind.
Let
us stop looking for whom to blame for our wrongs and errors. Admitting that we
are wrong and saying sorry is a VIRTUE.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OUTCOME OF YOUR LIFE
In
Genesis 2, after man disobeyed God and ate of the fruit, God came looking for
Adam, but he hid. God will
always tie a man to a place. Purpose is
tied to a location. One way to know a man is disconnected from God is that he
will be going to and fro aimlessly.
This
account in Genesis would have been different if Adam and Eve had simply
admitted their sin and repented. Adam shifted the blame to the woman God gave
him rather than accepting responsibility. When we are wrong, let us learn to
say we are wrong. It does not make us any less than who we are. Often, what you
call insult is meant to bring some sense into you and wake you up from your
slumber. No matter what happens or whatever you have done in life run to God
and never run from God. The right attitude to life is to make God your
stronghold.
Strongholds make people feel safe that's why they run
there.
ATTITUDE TO AUTHORITY
We
must have the right attitude to ALL authority.
Stop
insulting the leaders of the nation or any authority figure.
-The kind of leader or authority figure God
gives us per time is the kind we need.
The
kind of people God brings into your life is a clue to:
i.
What He wants to do at that time in your life.
ii.
What He wants you to become and to do.
(Judges
17:6, Judges 21:25, Judges 18:1, Judges 19:1)
From
the bracketed scriptures, we see the root cause of Israel’s problem at this
time. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. This is the present state of Nigeria! Everyone wants to do what he likes. All we
will find is lawlessness when everybody wants to do what they like. There was
no king in Israel so everyone did what they liked. Kings enforce ORDER but there was no king. You
cannot find progress where there is lawlessness.
WE ALL CRAVE FOR LIBERTY BUT LIBERTY WITHOUT SELF
DISCIPLINE WILL LEAD TO DESTRUCTION
The only time you are permitted to go against the constituted authority is when what
the authority demands is contrary to the word of God.
A
lot of us want to be in authority but do not want to submit to authority. We
cannot be resentful to authority and still want to be in authority.
ONCE OUR RESPONSE TO AUTHORITY IS WRONG, OUR LIVES WILL
BE WRONG
God
designed authority to make our lives better. (Romans 13:1-6) God is not a
lawless God. Even When God came to earth, (Jesus) He was subject to authority (Luke
2:51). What it means to surrender to God is that we are subject to God’s
authority figures over us. Let us not be afraid of authority, but let us do
what is right, think right, talk right. We are not just trying to please the authority
but we are doing what is right before God.
An indication that a man has truly encountered God is that his attitude towards the authority will be right.
