WHAT ARE YOU HOLDING ON TO?

Growing up as a young girl back home in Nigeria, I had two boyfriends because I felt if one of them gets serious then I can ditch the other one. I found out the folly of this logic when both of them decided to go play the field at the same time with other girls and I ended up loosing out. As it is in the natural things so I found out it’s happening in spiritual things also. Many believers sometimes find themselves playing the same game with God [current company included].

Sometimes we feel that we should have a plan B just incase God is too slow in acting the way we want and at the time we want. We claim the promises in the scriptures, confess our faith in God almost everyday, quick to quote Heb. 11:1 and Phil. 4:19 but come crunch time we are seeking another solution to the situation, we feel if God delays, we can always check out other alternatives but there is futility in those alternatives.

The bible says in James 1:8 “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. I give this example all the time that when you are standing in the middle of the road, any oncoming vehicle from both directions will hit you, so you either to the left or to right, there is no middle way. You either believe God and wait for His visitation or go with the alternative.

We believe God for various things, jobs, children, promotion, marriage, finances etc, but how many of us are really waiting upon the Lord or are we holding onto our understanding on how to find a solution suitable to us in our own timing? Hence my question, what are you holding on to? God’s promises or your alternative?

One of the perfect examples in the bible is Anna the prophetess and Simeon in the temple Luke 2: 25-38 who believed what God, told them concerning the coming Jesus. Remember the prophets prophesied his coming years before their time but they kept believing, Simeon had a revelation from the Holy Ghost [this was before the Holy Ghost was poured out on the early believers] that he will not see death before he had seen the Christ. Anna served God in the temple with fasting and prayers night and day and when she saw the manifestation of what God has promised she gave Him thanks.

Do we still have people like these or do we have a microwave generation that will rather believe in their abilities or talents rather than believe God. We have preachers/believers who are ready to manipulate the word of God rather than take some time to hear what God is saying to their congregation or concerning a situation facing them? These days we don’t fast and pray to hear God anymore, we just go “with the flow”, no fresh manna or fresh songs from heaven anymore we just copy what the world is doing and sprinkle God on it and pass it off as “revelation”.

I remember being in the choir back in my church in Nigeria, LRA, we had to pray to birth new songs from heaven, sometimes we are standing in God’s presence for hours just worshipping and waiting for His visitation and boy did we have a visitation or what!!!. I will never forget our Minister then, Sis Funlola Craig, she truly impacted a lot in my life which I will be forever grateful to God for her ministry. But what do I see these days?

Choristers are in a hurry to leave choir practice; musicians are hopping from church to church, playing instruments for the highest bidder. Where is the love for God and His work in our hearts? Congregations/believers are in a hurry to leave His presence, we are more conscious of time more than before, we are constantly in a hurry to leave to go do things we have no business doing, so we can come back and beg for God’s forgiveness and as the graceful and always forgiving Father, he does forgive and cleanses us, but how long are we going to keep God as an afterthought in our lives?

I am challenging myself and anyone who will be reading this to BELIEVE GOD regardless of how late we feel His timing might be, remember He is the Lord of the time and seasons and if he has promised, he will surely bring it to pass. Our alternative plans have a tendency to add more to our waiting time, believe me I know. Serve Him with all your heart not expecting any reward from man in return and see if He won’t show up for you. God does not owe any man. God is a rewarder and in due time He will reward if you faint not or get discouraged.

God does not need our help in making His word come to pass in our lives. HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY!!! What we need to do is just believe in Him and stop straddling between two fences, we will tear ourselves apart. Phil. 1:6. “Being confident of this very thing that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ”. I have never seen God abandon a project and I don’t think He is going to start with us.