- Pastor David Ibiyeomie on ‘Securing the Help of God’ at Salvation Ministries 1st Service
2 Chronicles 26:1-15
*When you seek God first, you can’t sink
*Continuity in any area of Life requires the help of God
*When God helps you, you succeed without stress.
Give God big hands and be seated!
Father, in this first service, let your words be a word of light that will bless the hearts that will receive it with understanding in Jesus mighty name.
This morning we will be looking at “Securing The Help of God: Part 1”
Never play down the help of God. It says “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help, my help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and the earth” Psalms 121:1. Help is coming down for someone right now, I mean today in the name of Jesus. In life, there is a limit your strength your will and your skill can carry you. It says “By strength shall no man prevail” 1Samuel 22:9. “It is not of him that willeth or him that runneth but of God that showeth us mercy” Romans 9:16. “The race is not to the swift… but time and chances…” Ecclesiastes 9:11.
Now, hear me, the people of God say: Lord, I desire your help.
Many times, people play the down the help of God and they get frustrated. Act 26:22 Paul speaking, “Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue until this day…” Continuity in any area of life requires the help of God. Paul said I continue to this day because of the help of God. When God is helping you, you keep progressing; you keep advancing and that shall be someone’s testimonies today! Without God’s help, you will be helpless; it is the help of God that makes high-flyers in the kingdom of God. It is the guarantee for continuity. Our scripture this morning, the key scripture for this message is taken from the book of 2Chronicles 26:1-15. Please take note of this story.
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. Church Gist.And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly. Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains. The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred, and under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
The reason he had all the outstanding feats is that he was marvelously helped. When God helps you, you succeed without stress. Church Gist.That same help is coming for someone who says Amen. He became an inventor not because he was the strongest everything that happened in Uzziah’s life was help from God. So, the message is “Securing the help of God” So, how do I secure the help of God?
HOW TO SECURE THE HELP OF GOD
- Seek God if you want Him to help you. “They that seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing” Psalm 34:10. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you” Matthew 6:23. Those who seek God first are always helped by God. As long as he sought the Lord, God helped him to prosper. If Matthew 6:23 is your priority in life, problems will depart from your proximity. You can’t seek God first and sink in life. Put God and his Kingdom first and you will never come last. As long as you a seeker of God, the help of God is sure for you. So the first thing you do is seeking God first; put God first.
- You must have the understanding of the times if you want to secure God’s help. You must have understanding of the times that means you must have the understanding of the move of God. Now hear this the people of God, 1Chronicles 12:32 “And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.” If you want to secure the help of God, you must understand the move of God. Now, listen carefully how did I beat all my mates in the Bible school? Church Gist.I had the understanding of the move of God. We were in Bible school in 1996 and they were raising an offering for the first aircraft for evangelism. Listen carefully, they were to buy the first aircraft in the church for evangelism it was a mission by Bishop Oyedepo that the church was to spread to the whole of Africa, so there was a need to get an aircraft.
When people abuse men of God, I just keep quiet because they don’t understand why Pentecostals are always buying the aircraft. You can’t do evangelism around the world without aircraft. Going for missions all over the world, would we be going around the whole world with Arik Airline? It is not possible. You go today, you hear flight has been postponed for 5 hours, wait for another 1 hour. I have waited for a morning flight and I left midnight, so, is it that kind of movement that the church will stay with.
Poverty will make a man get easily irritated.
A man was on Channels Television, so angry about Pentecostal Pastors buying aircraft. If you are not buying, you are not forced to. You don’t have to be angry with people that have aircraft. If you don’t have a car you’ll be angry with people that splash water. When you have a car, you won’t be angry. So back to the story, I had the understanding of the move of God, so when the aircraft was to be bought, I knew that was my time to break out of ministerial poverty because it was a sacrifice a one-time offering. Church Gist.So, I took everything I had and sowed as a seed and God said to me, “You will never beg in ministry”
Now that was the understanding of time. The timing was that I sowed that time or I beg in ministry. Many of my mates in Bible school could not do it so I left them. Having the understanding of time matters a lot! When this church just started, the money to get the next property, we were having issues. So Got said to me sow now into Faith Tabernacle 1999 because they were building that cathedral. He said sow into that cathedral and you will never be under pressure concerning church property.
The money for this place was not enough I sowed and heaven opened. There are people who do not have an understanding of time. God cannot help a man who does not have the understanding of the move of God. If you don’t understand His move, you can’t be a mover. You must know the timing, when to do something. If you tune news for 4 p.m. at 4:30pm, the news is gone. The reason the eagle is smarter than any other bird is that it has the understanding of the move of God than any other bird. Listen, this is what the eagle does when there is a storm; when there is a heavy wind, every other bird will be struggling to fly, flapping their wings; the eagle will wait, the eagle we study the move of the wind. When the eagle can calculate the move of the wind, on the mountain, it will spread its wings and leap up then the wind will carry it. When others are struggling, the eagle waits, takes time to understand the move and when others are flapping their wings, the eagle soars. The wind is the Holy Spirit; the mountain upon which it stands is the word of God.
When you understand the move of the spirit, and others are struggling, you just spread your wings and say you’re in charge. From today, may you never struggle! God will only help those who have the understanding of the move of God.
- Do that which is right in the sight of the Lord If you want to secure his help. When you please God, you cheaply secure the help of God. John 8:29 “And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.” When you please God, you don’t struggle to get the help of God. God not leaving me alone means that God has always helped me because I do those things that are pleasing to Him. Say to yourself, I will please God.
- If you want to secure the help of God you must depend on the help of the Holy Spirit. Are you getting me now? John14:16-17 reading the Amplified Classic
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever— The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you. John 14”16-17
When Jesus was on earth, every time the apostles needed help who do they run to? Everywhere they needed help, they go to the master, Jesus and he was always there to help them but in the scripture he said I am going away I will send someone who will do exactly what I used to do. So anytime you are looking for help, don’t run to me (Jesus) but run to him (Holy Spirit). Church Gist.Do you know many Christians don’t know the role of the Holy Spirit? Do you know even many pastors don’t know the role of the Holy Spirit, they still run to Jesus.
Jesus Himself said I am going but I’m going to send another person who will be in you. Jesus was not in them he was with them, but this one is going to be with you and in you; he will teach you all things and he will cause you to recall everything I have told you. The Holy Spirit is our ordained helper. He is a helper ready to help if you’re ready to go to him and ask of him. He is the most dependable helper. I’m going to be very practical. He is ever-present wherever you are now, you come to a crossroad and you need help. In the natural, the first thing that comes to you is who do I run to, be truthful say the truth, you start thinking who do I run to then you run to your pastor for help which is not even correct.
You don’t run to your pastor for assistance. Many of you come around and say I pay tithe and offering, you need to help me. God never said your pastor is your helper; your helper is who? The Holy Spirit! So, where is the Holy Spirit? I want to be very simple in my teaching. So when I said you only look to the Holy Spirit, the first thing you do is to look up, say the truth. If you want to pray now, where do you look? You look up and say oh God help me, oh God I’m really troubled help me. Listen, the one you’re looking for up there is in your heart so you don’t look up you look inwards; He will talk to you from inside not from up. The scripture says shall be in you not that it shall be in the sky. I’ve trained myself to the point where I don’t look up not that I don’t look up to God, don’t misquote me. I look inwards where the Holy Spirit resides and I talk to him.
I pray for you from today, may you know how to relate with him. The Holy Spirit is closer to you than the clothes you’re wearing. When Jesus was on Earth, the disciples didn’t look up, they simply run to him so now what do you do?
You don’t look up to the sky, you run to him he is a sure help you but he will never help you except you ask Him. Church Gist.Was there any where Jesus helped the disciples without them asking? Everywhere he helped them, they asked him. So you must be ready to ask the Holy Spirit, what do I do at this point of my life? I’m confused and he will help you. Say the truth, the last time you needed help, who did you run to? Your brother, your sister, government and in most cases, they disappointed you because vain is the help of man. Shout hallelujah! Who Jesus was to his disciples is who the Holy Spirit is to us now. Another comforter means he will take over from Jesus Christ, it means he’s the one that will make the journey so great and sweet. When we say you need help, don’t think you have to go to one quiet place to pray; He is in you everywhere.
Religious belief has kept people in captivity because we think we need to prepare and look for a quiet place to pray. Even in the midst of the trouble, ask the Holy Spirit he will help you at any point even when you are driving, you talk to Him, sweet Holy Spirit, help me now help me now, He will tell you calmly. When you know how to relate with the Holy Spirit, he will help you. Ministry becomes easy for me because the Holy Spirit tells me someone ears have been opened. It is the only spirit that will tell you what to do in business the Holy Spirit makes life so simple. He helps you where you’re struggling.
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