The God That Anwers By Fire

Hi friends,

Too many pilgrims on the kingdom High way tend to forget that there is a God in Heaven who is also the Lord and the master of this kingdom High way who would always stand to defend the integrity of His name and word at every point in time T.

We need to constantly and continuously remind ourselves of the so many promises that He has made for all His children who are on this very highway of Holiness. About this promises his word tells us they are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. About His Word we are told that the Lord has exalted His word much more than His name. Hallelujah to Jesus!

The proper understanding of His Word is what gives a believer an edge over another. It was that same understanding of His word its infallibility that the prophet of God Elijah stood upon on Mount Camel at His conquest with prophets of Baal.

It was the understanding of the word of God as the man of war and the captain of the host of Israel that the teenage boy David had to make him challenge Goliath to a battle.

The understanding of God as a God who answers prayers made Elijah send a message to the king of Israel to announce the shutting and opening of the heavens for rain during his lifetime. God Almighty honored those words.

For every pilgrim there might be some situation and even individuals who deliberately or otherwise are asking where is your God too? May be some would even dare you to face because as far as they are concerned you do not have a God to stand for you.

Dear friends, such times are never times to begin to weep, wail, lament or even run from pillar to post. They are times to look up to heaven and call on that same God who answered Elijah by fire.

In times of troubles and challenges, God answers instantly and powerfully like He did when Moses called upon him in the land of Egypt. Can you also remember how he responded promptly by parting Jordan when the sons of the prophet mocked Elisha? May I also call to your remembrance how he feed five thousand adults with five loaves of bread and two fishes when some disciples complained to Jesus that there was no means of feeding the hungry crowd?

Seems we have forgotten too soon how he raised Lazarus from the dead after four days of being dead and buried as decay was already setting in. Maybe I should remind us once again how He healed the boy with the deaf and dumb spirit by speaking just a word.

This few years I have spent on earth as a believer who is heaven bound, I have seen too much of God’s power and faithfulness that I cannot but admit that our God is powerful and indeed with Him nothing shall be impossible.

I dare you to throw back those challenges, opposition and difficulties back to Him right at the foot of the cross. I encourage you to focus on Jesus who is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

Forget the opposition and its size. Ignore the mockeries and the mockers. Do not bother yourself about the height of the mountain or the depth of the valley. Turn away from those cloud of witnesses and focus on Jesus who is the author and finisher of your faith.

With Jesus at the center of it all I can assure you that the center will hold, the mountains will move, the shouts of victory will sound and the Goliaths will be slain. Your heavens will still pour rain after the drought and there will be abundance after every famine.

Stay focused because our salvation is closer now than when we first believed. Have faith because that is the only bridge across your troubled wares to the other side where miracles, healings and victories awaits you. 

Stay blessed and remain rapturable till we meet at the gates of golden city of the heavenly Jerusalem.

 

Your friend and fellow Pilgrim in the Kingdom Race,

Pastor Janet