You find it difficult to tell someone about his love—how much he loves you, how much he has sacrificed for you, how much gift he has showered on you— yet you want to be his bride on that great day…🤔🤔
He is currently planning a great banquet for your wedding, yet you barely tell people about him nor about that day?
Sweetheart, let me ask, “do you really love your bridegroom?”
Wait, let me understand you… You mean on that great banquet, on that wedding day, you want to seat with men like Paul, John the beloved,… that spent part of their lives in chains for Christ?🤔🤔
So if men like Ravi Zacharias, Idahosa, Reinhard Bonnke, Kathryn Kulman, bring their seat and sit with Christ as his bride, you will carry your own and sit too?🤔🤔
OK, hold on, should I tell you where your seat will be on that day if you finally make it?
Lol, let’s not reason it. 🤣🤣
Without any intention of comparing or judging, my point is this:
Love God and love him right.
Ask yourself “what kind of bride am I”? “Am I proud and unashamed of my bridegroom”? “Do I love Him so much that even my breath speaks of my love for Him”?
If you won’t keep quiet on social media when your earthly wedding is drawing near, or when you find the ‘one’, why keep quiet about the one you desire to spend eternity with?
Tell the world about your love and let them fall in love with Him and grow in love.
Fallen, bruised, wounded, broken, shattered, depressed, hurting, disconnected from essence, lonely, abused, suppressed, shut up, locked down, failed, pushed aside, taken away from passion, misunderstood, misguided, misled, harmed, stabbed, shot, insulted, downgraded, despised, relegated to the background, taken away from the stage, disarmed…
Lame… That’s the word. Crippled… The description. A nobody… The thought. Pain … The inflammatory response. Anger… The attitude Aloneness… The self medication Anorexia… The early complication Anaemia… The late complication
Then comes necrosis, which gradually sets in and gradually eats up, not like cankerworm, not noticed, not advertised, no one knows, cos aloneness has taken over.
The fleshy, healthy, vibrant, soldier (Christian) finally dries up, with just bones, no flesh. With time, there’s total death, bones away from bones, ligaments away from ligaments, bones away from ligaments.
Now Ezekiel look at this valley. What do you see? Ezekiel: I see many dry bones scattered on the floor of this valley.
Can this bones live? Is there hope for this Christian? Can this Crippled/ dead, and dried Christians live?…
Son of man prophecy. 🔥🔥🔥 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Now, I hear a noise, a rattling sound. I see bones coming together, bone to bone, tendons and flesh appearing on them and skin covering them, and from the four winds I see breath rush into them. Life, a new life.
Standing again on their feet— a vast army. Wow. They are walking again.🔥🔥🙌🙌ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
(Tongues)
I know a place, a place you can receive life, a place where you can walk again no latter how crippled or dead you are.
That place?…GOD’S PRESENCE.
God is raising an army, an end time army, a vast army, and to only those who are laid down in His presence will he give life and they will walk, run and fly again.
No matter how broken you are, you can walk again. You will walk again.
Come to God’s presence. Come! Come!
NOW HERE IS MY TESTIMONY: I had a bow leg when I was young. The solution to straighten it they said was through surgery. Miraculously, the bow leg healed. Now I can walk well and my legs are straight. God did it. Thanks to my parents, carriers of God’s presence, who ceaselessly laid hands on me and kept prophesying till they saw results. I love you dad, I love you mum, God’s generals.
…As I waited for the meal I ordered, I was excited. This was my first time of eating in this restaurant (a restaurant away from my city) and I was very expectant.
Before making my orders, I had seen the varieties; the assorted meats, the different appetizing and attractive food lined up in the show case. My eyes were fed first and when I found the one, my heart exclaimed, “This is it”.
You could see the sudden beam of smile on my little face that quickly set aside the confusion and fear of making the wrong choice. The happiness was palpable. I had this feeling of conquest immediately I found the ‘one’.
My excitement accelerated the more when the waiter said, ” Go and take a seat, I will bring your orders for you”. “Ah! I’m impressed.” I muttered.
I quickly glanced through the beautifully decorated space and found the best spot to do justice to this great choice. I was happy, salivating😋😋 and even dancing. I kept proving to my partner, with many reasons, that I made the right choice.
I patiently waited for the food yet constantly turning back to see when the meal approached. 😋😋😀😂
But the big question was…
Will the wait be worth it?
My eyes were satisfied, my heart had made the choice, the best choice I believed, but will my taste be satisfied too? Will my hunger find satiety?
THE PROCESS: Most of us just like this food are in the preparation process: —The breaking and making, —The packaging and the —Manifestation.
THE HUNGRY WORLD:
Truth is; The world is hungry. Hungry for the truth. Hungry for solution. Hungry for salvation, because there is hollowness, emptiness and decadence, and CHRISTIANS, the CHURCH, are the only solution to this dying world. We are the food, the satisfaction, they need. We are the answer.
“For [even the whole] creation [all nature] WAITS eagerly for the children of God to be revealed [for the manifestation of the sons of God]”. Romans 8:19.
But wait a sec, will their wait be worth it?
When it’s time for our manifestation (our unveiling, our revealing), would we have something to offer to this dying world? Or are we going to be some empty and hollow containers making noise?
For me this is a serious question, a food for thought.
We may be beautiful and well decorated on the outside, attractive and appealing, getting the attention of the world with our beautiful outfit, church edifices, programmes and activities, etc, but do we have what the world need?
THE BREAKING, MAKING AND PACKAGING OF THE CHURCH:
This lockdown is a quarry for many. A time of chiseling and tooling. A time of preparation and proper packaging.
Have you yielded yourself to the process?
There is a new wine that God wants to pour in this last days. He is refining many old wine skin and preparing them to carry the new wine. He is also making new wine skins to carry the new wine. He is going to fill many this season.
THE MANIFESTATION:
When the lockdown is over, when the wait is over, and it time for your manifestation oh CHILD of GOD, will the wait be worth it? Will you bring satisfaction to souls? Will you be an answer the world needs? Will you be prepared to be unleashed? Will the new wine flow from you?
The food finally arrived. You can see the beauty of the food yet a dissatisfaction on my face. I couldn’t even look at my partner cos all my ranting and arguments were flawed. All I wanted at that moment was to walk away.
If the world do not find the solution they need in us and in our churches, they will walk away.
THE ANSWER (Action point):
Let’s forget the religious bigotry, the rituals, the ceremonies, the liturgy in our churches. LET’S BUILD AN ENVIRONMENT ENCAPSULATED BY GOD’S PRESENCE. After the lockdown, many unbelievers will run to us and to our churches to seek for help, to seek for peace, for safety, for the truth, for the new wine. Let this new wine flow from us.
Let’s stay in God’s presence, in the Potter’s hand, until we are WELL COOKED and FILLED, ready to be served. The lockdown will soon be over. 💖
Dr. Faith Mba 