HOWEVER, IF GOD SHOULD BLESS YOU THE WAY YOU ARE ASKING HIM TO BLESS YOU, WILL YOUR HEART STILL BE LOYAL TO HIM?
IF YOUR HEART IS NOT TOTALLY COMMITED TO GOD, WHAT YOU WILL BE GETTING IS JUST THE MANNA TO SUSTAIN YOU IN YOUR WILDERNESS
- Pastor Temitope Oyadeyi at Holy Ghost Convention 2021, tagged ‘Abundant Rain’
Day 5 (Youth Mega Jam) - Is your heart loyal to God? Or are you just after what is in the hands of God?
The theme of the Holy Ghost Convention this year is ‘Abundant Rain’ and God has been speaking to us in various dimensions on abundant rain. God gave me a word for us and I believe what I will be sharing is going to help you to take a hold of the abundant rain that God is bringing into your life. I would be sharing very briefly on:
THE HEART FOR ABUNDANT RAIN
Deuteronomy 8: 1-9
These Verses (7-9) is a description of abundant rain. This word is coming to you and it is coming to me. The people to whom this word was given originally could not take a hold of their destiny at the time they were supposed to. Originally, they were supposed to experience what we read in verses 7 to 9 in 40 days, but something was missing in their life that could not qualify them to take a hold of the rain. Not because God hated them, God loved them. Like our father in the Lord said during the convention, God has no problem giving us abundant rain. As a matter of fact, God is too big a God to give a promise without having an intention to fulfil it.
Unfortunately, these people did not have that heart that could make them to enjoy that abundant rain and because they lacked that heart, they had to pass through the wilderness for 40 years. Look at that verse 2 which we read; God wants to know what is in your heart. It was not because He didn’t have the ability or capacity to do it in 40 days but they had to go through the wilderness for 40 years because of their heart. Eventually only 2 people could enjoy what they were promised. I have a question for you, ‘What is in your heart?’.
Isaiah the prophet gave a prophecy in Isaiah 66: 1-2. God was making a description of Himself and the extent to which He can go in blessing the people and in verse 2, He said it is on one person He is going to look and bless, the person who is of a contrite heart and who trembles at His word. Our father in the Lord has said it over and over again that God will do nothing outside of His word. What have you been doing with the word of the Lord to you? Do you believe the word of the Lord indeed? If you do not believe the word, you would not be able to enjoy the abundant rain. Your heart must be right with God.
A king in Israel had enjoyed God’s favour and victory but at a point in time he derailed and God gave a verdict over His life. 2 Chronicles 16: 9. Is your heart loyal to God? Or are you just after what is in the hands of God? There are lots of people in church who are only after what is in the hands of God and not what is in the heart of God. God is saying in His word, He will show His strength over that one whose heart is loyal to Him. You might be coming to church every day and your heart is very far away from God.
Our father in the lord also said during the convention that it is very easy for us to criticize the orthodox churches or Christians of old that they are old school and he asked a question, ‘Do we have their commitment?’. If God should bless you the way you are asking him to bless you, will your heart still be loyal to God? There are people who say things to their shame, like ’I used to sing in the choir’, ‘I used to serve in church’ but now God has blessed them, they can no longer sing in the choir, they can no longer serve in Church and they want that blessing to endure. No!
As long as your heart is not totally committed to God, what you would be getting is not the fullness of the blessing God designed for you. You would only be getting the manna to sustain you in your wilderness. What we want is the abundant rain, what we want is the fullness the blessing and the way to go is for your heart and my heart to be fully committed to God. Can God trust you with that dimension of blessing that you are asking Him for?
Luke 12: 21. When God blesses you, when God gives you that abundant rain, will you still be rich towards God? In your service in His house, in your service of His people. The reason God is blessing you is not so that you can ‘pepper’ anybody, it is for His own kingdom and unless you get your heart right before God, you won’t experience that abundant rain to the extent to which God wants you to enjoy it.
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