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  • Get connected with God, by Funmi Komolafe

    Get connected with God, by Funmi Komolafe

    Brethren, it’s the beginning of another month.   It’s time to ask; the popular question “ how far? “.

    Asking this question is a form of self-assessment.  Ask yourself, how far have I gone in my relationship with the LORD?

    Has anything changed in your spiritual life between now and January?  Have you devoted more time to prayers, have you been fasting, what else have you been doing to improve your relationship with God.  Not your Pastor but you alone can answer that question.  I urge you to do so honestly.

    The second step is to ask yourself, is there any sign that something is about to change?  If the answer is in the positive, then you can begin to look toward the day of testimony.

    Let me give an example.  Perhaps there is a woman out there whose monthly period has ceased as  it was with Sarah.   Genesis 18 vs. 11 ( KJV) : “ Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well striken in age; and  it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women”.

    Perhaps doctors have told you that the eggs you  produce during ovulation are so weak that  they can never be fertilized.  With such a report,  if you are not strong in faith, you would give up on yourself.

    Or are you a man whose medical test results  indicate  that you have zero sperm count.   That is enough to make a man write   himself off but not for a true Christian.

    As a Christian,  such reports  it is indeed the test of  our faith.

    What then do we do?  As  a Christian, you should  remember that God gave you a command.

    Genesis 1 vs. 27 & 28:  “ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,  and  over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”.

    Jesus went further to assure us that with faith, we cannot pray in vain.

    Verse 24 of Mark 11: ‘ Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them”.

    A major hindrance to our miracle is doubt.  Some of us pray with doubts in  our  hearts.  Our lips pronounce  the prayers but the heart doubts.

    May the merciful God deliver us from the spirit of doubts in the name of Jesus.

    Doubt weakens our faith and if unchecked may make one to  disconnect  with God and anyone that is disconnected from God cannot be connected to a miracle.

    God told Abraham that he would be a father of many nations but the first step to the fulfillment of the word of God was the birth of the promised child Isaac. Though he had Ishmael  born to him by Sarah’s maid, Hagar.

    You want to ask, why didn’t God give Sarah multiple  babies?

    The answer is  found in Psalm 115  vs. 3 “ But God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased”.

    From Isaac that he gave to Abraham and Sarah as an only child,  a nation’s arose.

    Our intimacy with the LORD would make us hear   from him.   It makes  us get the attention  of the God.

    Beloved, if the physical signs that you see do not   give  you cause to be cheerful, the solution is not to be downcast or lose faith.

    Let your spirit remind you   of the word of God in Jeremiah 32 vs. 27: “ Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?’.

    Let your faith make you to answer that   there is nothing too hard for the LORD.

    With this thought, you are moving closer to your miracle.

    Perhaps you have been going through some form of sickness that doctors have described as “incurable”.    Medical science is limited but God is unlimited.

    Nothing is too hard for the God of all flesh.  Your body is flesh.  So God can heal you.

    The child you want to have is flesh.  The God of all flesh can give you children.

    Have you been waiting for  a marriage partner?   The one you are expecting is flesh.  God can connect both of you and the marriage would take place.

    Brethren, you need to take testimonies seriously.   Cast doubts away from your mind, when listening to testimonies.  Believe that God that gave the testifier a miracle is available to also give you   a testimony.

    Brethren, if you spent 2024 down cast because  your miracle didn’t manifest, you can’t afford to remain that way in 2025.

    You must radiate the joy of the LORD even  when  you are troubled.   Humanly speaking, this seems impossible but with  the love of Christ in you, it is possible.

    With the joy of the LORD in you, brethren, you are an overcomer.

    Mockers   would wonder while your radiate so much joy despite the challenges that  they identify with you.

    The  joy of the LORD in you is also  a weapon to chase the demons out of your life.

    Couples trusting God for the fruit of the womb, need to be united in prayer.

    If your partner’s faith is not strong enough, then make sure you remain connected  with God in prayer.

    Brethren, a miracle may be delayed  because  of the forces of darkness but it may also be delayed because you haven’t taken the right steps.

    At other times, what we call a delay, is a test of our faith.

    Beloved, it is only God that can open a closed womb.   It is God that can change the zero sperm count to multiple count but you need to be connected to  JESUS.

    No matter what we are going through, God is available to bring us from sorrow to joy.

    God is able to move us from lamentation to celebration  only if you remain connected in prayer.

    Brethren, you cannot be guilty of praying too much.  There is nothing like over-praying.

    The more you pray, the more you get connected to God.

    January is gone, we still have 11 months to go in 2025, resolve to be connected to the one that  answers prayers.

    Those who do not pray, may never testify.

    May God help us all to remain connected to Him.

    Our God is the helper of the helpless.

    No wonder the Psalmist said in Psalm 46 vs. 1: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble”.

    God is not far from you; you only need to be connected.

    Shalom!

  • Overcoming stubborn challenges, by Funmi Komolafe

    Overcoming stubborn challenges, by Funmi Komolafe

    Brethren, let’s congratulate one another for the Grace to witness the last Sunday in January 2025.

    In a couple of days, it would be the end of January and 2025 would be 11 months to go. That’s stating the obvious but we shouldn’t take life for granted.   Some that shouted Happy New Year as you did are now six feet below either because their times to return to God or some wicked people have cut their lives short.

    Whatever situation you find yourself, give thanks to God. He is the giver of life and it has pleased him to keep you alive.

    Today, we’ll discuss, Stubborn challenges. What do we call stubborn challenges and why?

    If we go by the definition of stubborn, it refers to a situation that is difficult to move or remove.

    When a Christian refers to a challenge as stubborn, it means that the person has done everything humanly possible without any solution.

    If a couple have been married for years, undergoing all sorts of medical tests and treatment, with no child to show for it let alone conception, the couple would likely give up.

    Others may resort to prayers, moving from one church to another without any positive result.

    Stubborn challenges could lead to frustration.  It is often a test of one’s faith.   Stubborn challenges

    If not well handled may cause one to derail emotionally or even spiritually.

    Inability to handle stubborn challenges have led some to the witchcraft coven, yet, the problem would remain unresolved.

    As a Christian, you must never allow stubborn challenges, to overcome you.  Rather, you need to violently attack it spiritually and see it give way.

    Let’s consider the story of two women, Sarah and Rachel that went through stubborn challenges.

    The first is Sarah.   The Bible describes her as a beautiful woman such that Abraham had to lie that she was his sister. Twice he lied to save his own life because he knew that other men would want to have her.

    Genesis 12 vs. 11-13 (KJV): And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon:

    Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me but they will save thee alive.

    Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee”.

    However, despite her beauty, she had a challenge.

    Genesis 11 vs. 30: “ But Sarai was barren; she had no child”.

    Abraham was a righteous man that walked with God and lived his life in accordance with the word of God.  James 2 vs. 23 said of Abraham: “ And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God”.

    This simply tells us that Abraham was a man that prayed regularly yet his wife was barren.

    At a point a frustrated Sarah called on her husband, to go into her maid, and that was the beginning of insubordination, jealousy and even hatred in a hom

    Genesis 16 vs. 4: “ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes”.

    Sarah got to the point of frustration because she had concluded that it would never be possible for her to have a child.

    In the case of Rachael, she got to the point of frustration and confronted her husband, Jacob.

    Genesis 30 vs. 1 ( NIV): “ When Rachael saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister.  So she said to Jacob, “ Give me children , or I’ll die”.

    Verse 2 tells of Jacob’s reply: “ Jacob became angry with her and said, “ Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children”?

    Rachel turned to man instead of God and she was disappointed. Besides, as Jacob’s favourite wife, she failed to realize that if Jacob had his way, she alone would be the mother of all his children.

    In both cases, we can see that frustration leads to jealousy, hatred   and unnecessary squabbles.

    The good thing is that the two women eventually had children when God intervened.  They both became mothers at God’s own time and they were gifted with special children.

    What these two women passed   through is quite similar to what many people are going through today.

    Often times we turn to human beings for solutions and when medical science fails, we begin to turn to God.

    Thank God for his mercy that endureth forever.

    If God should act like human beings, many would never overcome challenges of life.

    When we are confronted with stubborn challenges like delay in childbearing, delay in getting married, financial stagnation, sickness or any other challenge, the way to overcome is to become prayerfully violent.

    To be prayerfully violent is to pray at all times and to fast if the medical condition of the person permits.

    Our Lord Jesus told us how to deal with stubborn challenges when his disciples could not cast out lunacy in the life of a young boy.

    The disciples asked the LORD why they couldn’t cast out the demon and set the boy that was being tormented by the devil free.

    The reply of Jesus is found in Matthew 17 vs. 20&21 ( KJV) : “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall  be removed; and nothing  shall be impossible unto you.

    Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting”.

    Jesus mentioned, Faith, Prayer and Fasting as the keys to overcome stubborn challenges.

    Sarah lost faith,. That  was why she told her husband to go into her maid.  She showed lack of faith again when the Lord visited her and Abraham and told them they would have a son.

    Genesis 18 vs. 10-12: “ And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.  And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

    Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

    Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

    Beloved, overcoming a challenge is not a tea party; it is a spiritual war that can only be won with the Lord of one’s side.

    For the Lord to be on your side, you too must be on the LORD’s side. You must be prepared to give up something to take something.

    Perhaps this is one of the reasons, many Pastors direct their members to go on fasting and prayer at the beginning of the year.

    They are simply telling us to prepare  to overcome a stubborn challenge.

    If you prayed, fasted, obeyed God,  offered Praises and gave thanks in 2024 and the challenge remains, then you must realize that you are dealing with a stubborn challenge and the way to overcome is not to give up.

    To overcome, one must be determined to subdue the flesh with prayer and fasting. If the challenge remains, you cannot afford to relax in prayer.

    The more you pray, the more you attack the challenge with the backing of the Holy Spirit and before you realize it, when you least expected, the testimony would manifest.

    By the Grace of God as you put in more efforts in prayer and fasting, that stubborn challenge would soon become a testimony in Jesus name.

    Remember Jesus reigns over all challenges.

    No challenge started with you and none would end with you but you can prayerfully terminate that challenge in Jesus name.

    Jesus is LORD!