Stand Still

Hi friends,

It is yet another day closer to our eternal destination and if there is anything I have come to discover about life in this few decades of my life, it is the fact that the battles become tougher just before victory is won.

I have also discovered that the darkest hour is shortly before the day breaks. At the time it seems an individual has lost hope and at the verge of giving up, God Almighty shows forth for that individual. After all, He is the hope of the hopeless and also the hope of the faithful.

May I hereby encourage your hearts and weary souls, that there is need to step aside and stand still if you must see the salvation of the Almighty God. Remember what God told our brethren the Israelites on their journey to Canaan?

Exodus 14:13 states some very salient but important keys to victory in the journey of life . It says;

            And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and

see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you today:

 for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them

 again no more forever.   (KJV)

Challenges, battles and oppositions from fellow humans and the kingdom of darkness are part and parcel of life. In fact, to amplify this fact, Pastor E.A Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church Of God said and I quote though paraphrased,

“Why a new born baby cries immediately it is born is that the baby is shouting here is life full of battles!”.

Then to even compound the issue is the fact that you are on the highway to an eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ. The devil can never and will never let you be.

In the scripture I just quoted earlier, the Israelites were on the journey to their promised land just like you are on your journey to Heaven. They thought the Egyptians had released them for good until they got the Red Sea only to discover that they were in hot pursuit after them.

There was a desert to one side, The Amorites that will not allow them pass through their land on the other side. The Egyptians were closing in on them from behind and the Red Sea right in front with nowhere or anyone to turn to.

They began to murmur and grumble against Moses wishing they could go back to Egypt and continue their lives of slavery forgetting too soon that there is a God up in the sky whose ears are never too dull to hear His children and whose hands are never too short to deliver every weary pilgrim! 

 As they cried, murmur and grumbled against the man of God, Moses cried to Heaven looking up to Jesus- the author and finisher of his faith. The only thing that God told Him was to tell the people to eliminate fear and stand still.

Are you going through challenges and the fear of man, fear of uncertainties and the fear of the unknown seems to have gotten the better part of you? Have you lost hope over something dear to you? Are you at your wit’s end and at the verge of giving up? It is time to stand still.

Remember God has not given you the spirit of fear? Fear is the enemy of your faith. Stand still. The Egyptians you see today are too small for your God and my God to handle. By implication, that mountain no matter how tall is not an impossibility with this great God!

Beloved choose to stand still in your struggles and God’s salvation will come through for you. God bless you bountifully on this Pilgrimage!

Your friend and fellow Pilgrim,

Pastor Janet.