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God is looking for spiritual lions who will exhibit boldness, compassion and true holiness.
Christians in general are looking for real men and women of God who will recognise the spiritual crisis in this generation and boldly fulfil God’s calling to bring down the insurmountable walls of Jericho. There is a desperate need for righteous men and women to stand in the gap in all faithfulness and loyalty. We are looking for leaders.
Where Is the Roar of the Real Men of God?
I personally have found a great mentor, a teacher, a leader and a father in the spirit, indeed my spiritual father. That is what Uebert Angel is to me.
My Sunday scripture comes from the book of Luke 11:52
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.
Upon pondering on this scripture. I envisioned in my mind’s eye, a scenario at a bus station or taxi rank, on a wet and rainy day. Imagine getting into a warm, nice comfortable bus, with a destination clearly marked. You get on the bus and sit in a comfortable seat. You look outside through the window and watch the terrible weather outside. It is wet and miserable raining cats and dogs.
Then a taxi rank tout shouts from outside and tells you the bus you are on is not going to reach the said destination. The tout does not show you a bus that will take you to where you want to go. But the tout signals you to come and stand with him in the pouring rain. The tout does not show you an alternative bus but beckons you to join him anyway.
This is akin to all these people who criticise your church and your men and women of God. They are quick to tell you that your church leader is not a man of God. They will tell you how ungodly this or that person is but never point you to the Holy or Good man or woman of God. All they seek to do is remove you from that place of comfort you have found in the Lord.
God forbid
They seek to remove you from the bus, they want you out in the wet and cold rain.
Many so-called-Christians have become experts in the law. They have arrogated themselves the role of vetting and qualifying who is and who is not a true servant of God. They do not realise that in this endeavour they themselves have taken away the key to Knowledge, indeed putting out the little light that people may have hoped to increase by following those with a brighter beam, (anointed servants, leaders, Prophets). Many inadvertently are getting people off the bus. They are indeed hindering the access of those who want to get on the bus.
While millions of Christians across the world argue as to who is and who is not a real man or woman of God, the devil celebrates this confusion. I have been challenged on countless occasions on why I chose to follow the leadership and mentor-ship of Prophet Uebert Angel. Some even daring to tell me that he is not a man of God.
But I know better. I have travelled with, ate together with, and worshipped God passionately (with Prophet Uebert Angel). I have had my rear end kicked by this humble, battle-scarred prophet of God. He has motivated me to focus and improve every aspect of my life. My faith in Jesus Christ has increased, my business acumen sharpened and today I can truly say I can see growth not only spiritually but even my finances have become healthy and my life is a living joy.
Thank God for Good News
If we fulfil the primary purpose that God created us for, we will, as a by-product, find what most of us are looking for in this life: happiness, purpose, and meaning (see Psalm 16:11). Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
When we realise that God created us to glorify Him, and we start to act in ways that fulfil that purpose, then we will begin to experience an intensity of joy and fulfilment in the Lord that we have never known before.
The Problem With Man
One day, a scorpion wanted to cross a certain pond. He asked the turtle to give him a lift across the pond. The turtle exclaimed, “Are you joking? You will sting me while I’m swimming and I will drown.”
“My dear turtle,” laughed the scorpion, “if I were to sting you, you would drown, and I’d go down with you. Now where is the logic in that?” “You’ve got a point there,” said the turtle. “Hop on.”
The scorpion climbed aboard, and halfway across the river, he carefully aimed his powerful stinger, giving the turtle everything he had. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle said, “You said that there is no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?”
“It has nothing to do with logic,” the drowning scorpion replied. “It’s just my nature.”
God help us see
This story clearly illustrates the problem with man. In the beginning, God created human beings in His own image, set apart from the rest of creation. As a result, men and women possess a deeper, spiritual dimension. As Scripture says, God “has also set eternity in the hearts of men” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
This creates a longing in our hearts to discover God’s eternal purpose and meaning for our lives. C.S. Lewis poignantly describes the hints of heaven God brings our way to intensify this longing:
“All the things that ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of heaven. Tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. . .If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. . .Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy, but to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
Yet, in spite of our best efforts to find that missing piece, we come up short. We keep running into men and women sadly those we call our fellow Christian brothers and sister who continuously want use off the bus and in the pouring cold and wet rain.
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