OBEDIENCE: THE KEY TO THE FULFILMENT OF GOD'S PROMISES

OBEDIENCE: THE KEY TO THE FULFILMENT OF GOD'S PROMISES

"HE PRAYED, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. YOU KEEP YOUR COVENANT AND SHOW UNFAILING LOVE TO ALL WHO WALK BEFORE YOU IN WHOLEHEARTED DEVOTION."
2 Chronicles 6:14 (NLT)

• The God of heaven we serve, the Creator of all things, the Father of Jesus Christ; cannot be compared with any other god—either in heaven or the earth.

• He is the God who keeps promises and shows the unfailing love, to whoever obeyed Him and eagerly or keenly desired to do His Will.
• Obedience and eagerness to do God's Will are the keys to experience or enjoy His unfailing love.
• What has God instructed you to do recently? In your walk with God, Obedience is the key that would give you an access to His treasure house.
• Being faithful and obedient to His commands or instructions would give speed to your spiritual growth or progress.

• If you walk in a total obedience in all the instructions given you by God, you will enjoy His backings in all you do.

• God will cut or establish a covenant with you. He honours those who walk in total obedience to His Word.
• If you made up your mind to do God's Will, to live in absolute obedience to His words, instructions, and commands; the devil would want to test or try your conviction.
• Your total obedience, to the instructions given by God, would attract opposition from the Kingdom of darkness. Your total obedience makes you a target, an object of attacks from the kingdom of darkness.
• Your love for God, His Word, and work or Kingdom; makes you an ememy of satan. The devil is after those who are in love with God:
  "AND THE DRAGON [the devil] WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST" (Revelation 12:17 NKJV).
• If you are being challenged, or persecuted, because of your total Obedience; I want to encourage you to take heart, you will surely overcome.
• What God demands from His children is absolute Obedience and Faithfulness.

• Eagerness to do His Will.

• You must be eager, having a keen interest and a keen desire, to do His Will. Albeit, some claimed not to know God's Will. His Will is known through His Word, the Bible; and a good fellowship or communion with Him.
• God is known through His Word. The things that are written about Him. We have in the Bible the record of those who had walked with Him, for our learning, that we might fully know and understand Him: "SUCH THINGS WERE WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES LONG AGO TO TEACH US. AND the SCRIPTURES GIVE US HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT AS WE WAIT PATIENTLY FOR GOD'S PROMISES TO BE FULFILLED" (Romans 15:4 NLT).
  READ: 1 Corinthians 10:11,12
• When you read and study the Word of God daily, and you are faithful in the practice of It, you live by its principles; you find yourself At the centre of God's Will. That is, the counsel of God on the issues of life are made known and clear to you through His Word—the Bible.

• You need the help of the Holy Spirit in your Christian life. Some people know the Will of God, but they find it difficult to do or practice.

• If you work on your fellowship or communion with God through the Holy Spirit on inside of you:
  a. You will be able to discern what It is that God wanted you to do (John 16:13,14).
  b. The Holy Spirit will empower you, give you eagerness, enablement, to do the work. He will enable you to do God's Will.
• God's Will is revealed or made known through His Word by the help of the Holy Spirit: "BUT THE HELPER, THE HOLY SPIRIT, whom the Father will send in My name, HE WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS THAT I SAID TO YOU" (John 14:26 NKJV).

• For God to keep His promises in your life and show His unfailing love to you, you have to obey Him and be eager to do His Will—whatever He commanded or instructed.

• Although there are some things that are not explicitly written in the Bible, which the Believers needed to know what to do about. God's Will on such things can be made known or unravelled by the Holy Spirit.
• You have to work on the building of your discernment, or perceptiveness, and grow in it. Your communion or fellowshipping with God through the Holy Spirit—conversing with Him—builds your sensitivity and perceptiveness.
• You do not wait until you have a pressing issue to know what to do about, before you initiated a communication with God. It should be part of your daily life.
• This is what is called fellowship or communion. You talk to God often. Whilst driving, washing, cooking, taking a walk, and in whatever you are doing. Whenever you are alone, you want to talk to Him. It could even be in a public bus, whilst others are chatting, but you are busy communing or conversing with God under your breath.
• If you lived your life as being shared here, knowing God's Will or plan for your life would not be a difficult issue.
• Note: Acknowledging God is the basic problem of most Believers (Proverbs 3:5,6).
  a. Most of them would have gone ahead of God in whatever they wanted to do, without telling Him about It, and bothered not to ask and know His Will or mind on it.
  b. Such Believers usually remember God when they had one problem or the other in what they wanted to do. If the project went on smoothly, they would not remember or think there is a need to involve God. But If they had issues which may be difficult to handle, then, they would want to call on God to help them.
  c. The God you did not carry along when you were planning the project, and when you started it, but now that you are having issues, you want that God to help you out.

• Living a consecrated life should be the goal and aspiration of every believer—professed Christian.

• A Believer who lives such a life would always Acknowledge God in whatever he or she wanted to do, Carry Him along in every step to be taken:
  5 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; 6 IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT [make smooth or straight] YOUR PATHS" (Proverbs 3:5,6 NKJV).
• If you made the choice of letting the Holy Spirit guide you in all the affairs of your life, you would live to please God in Obedience and have the best of Him. THIS also would make your life colourful and fulfilling.

• God's Will for your life will not be aborted in Jesus' name.

• Should there be any ailment in your body, I declare your healing now in Jesus' name.
• I rebuke that spirit of infirmity in your system, and I declare your healing, total freedom from that oppression in Jesus' name.
  Peace!

STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. Ask that He will write your name in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).

• If you took the steps As highlighted above, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based church in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!