GET UP TO GO UP 2

IF YOU MUST GO UP YOU MUST GET UP 2

2 KINGS 6:24-25; 7:1-16, EPH 5:14

Faith in God is the key of living a pleasing life before God (Heb 11:6). The unseen controls the seen and if we must have authority in the seen world we must have influence and connection in the unseen world by reason of our faith in the unseen God. The scripture in several places reveals that the life of the Just is that of faith. The righteous cannot survive without faith on the earth because it is faith in God and His word that commits God to work (2Chron 16:9).

However, many of us keep waiting on God for a miracle because we do not have faith in the instructions we have received from Him. Many of us want God to set the stage for us before we take steps in that direction. We always want our circumstance and environment to show that God is at work before we act on what He says. More often than not, God does not act until we act. He said draw unto Me and I will draw unto you. When we move in the direction of Gods words, God is moved to move in our direction to provoke the needed miracles. Until Peter launched in the direction of divine instructions, he did not see the miracles he needed.

Someone said Faith is acting as if it is so even when it is not so that it can be so because with God it is already so. The lepers would have died wretched in their lepers colony if they did not take the bold step of damning the consequence of their actions. Esther would not have been celebrated till this day if she had not taken the bold step of facing the king after waiting on the King of kings. Many of us tarry in the place of waiting on God not because we trust God so much but because we are scared of taking actions on what God has said because to us it does not sound reasonable. The word of the Lord to someone today is this Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.

Until you move in the direction of the instructions you have received from God so far, you are not entitled to the supply of God. The light of God would not shine on you if you will not arouse strength, courage and energy to arise and awake from your present state and position. Until Elijah got up from where He was to go to the house of the Widow of Zarephath, he was seeing hunger and famine but when He got up, God got up on his behalf and when God arises on your behalf, all the angels in heaven have no place to rest until they are through sorting out your case. Get up for the ground is not your place; your rightful place is at the top.

Reflections: What are those things that God have instructed me to do hitherto that I have postponed? Write them down and start to take steps towards knowing that With God all things are possible. Likewise to him that believes on what God says, all things are possible.

Confession: I will arise and take my place regardless of my past, my present circumstances and environment. I will move in the direction of Gods instruction so that I can provoke a move from god on my behalf.