As usual, I woke up to read messages on my
phone wishing me a happy new month. Logged into my Facebook much later and my
news feed was inundated with status updates speaking good wishes and uplifting
prayers for the month of April!
I too, desired to post a goodwill message for
my social media friends about the month of April 2014. However, not wanting to
say “just anything” simply to fulfill all righteousness (as the saying goes); I
decided to ask my father in heaven, God (the one who SEES and KNOWS ALL) what
is in store for His people. Ofcourse like everyone else, I want to have a good,
blessed and fruitful month. But above all that, I strongly needed to know what
Yahweh had to say.
I didn’t pray. I simply,
said “God give me a word for the month of April…tell me what you have planned
for us.” And He answered through the Holy Spirit saying “they
that know their God shall be strong and do great exploits.” I heard the soft voice clearly, vividly. I was excited. Ofcourse,
I knew that those words are located in the Book of Daniel…more specifically
Daniel 11:32. I got so excited and immediately posted this scripture on my Facebook
wall.
I may have been
feeling content that I had sent out a message of good will to my friends, but Daniel
11:32 got me meditating deeply.Truly knowledge is power… for “they that KNOW their God shall be STRONG.” The knowledge we have of God, of the totality of His being, of His greatness…our knowledge (of who He is to those who know and love Him)….brings strength. What is strength? Power! A scripture from Ephesians 3:20 comes to mind here which seems to lend credence to my previous statement: “To Him who is able to do exceedingly; abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” In other words, the amount (or level) of God’s power in us, determines how much of Him we see manifested in (and through) us.
You see, our perception of God determines our
desire (and ability) to receive from Him and how He is able to work through us.
Oftentimes we only achieve small feats because we have somehow placed a limit
on God. This stems from the fact that we haven’t actually come to KNOW just how
GREAT He is. He is a God who created the universe out of nothing, a God that
made this earth we live in to sit in empty space! Yes! The earth is hanging on nothing! If He could do that, then what is healing your
sickness, or mending that broken heart of yours? What can’t He do for those ones
He loves so much? What won’t He do? He
said it himself, “nothing is impossible to them that believe.”
There is absolutely nothing God cannot, and
will not do for us. In 1 Kings 17, He held the rain because Elijah asked. He made
the sun stand still for Joshua (See Joshua 10). Oh yes! The sun, stood still! I
believe that these two great men of God in the Bible prayed such daring prayers
because they KNEW who God was, and what He can do…and they BELIEVED He could do
it! That knowledge mixed with faith gave them the strength to not only ask God
for what seemed impossible in the eyes of man, but to also accomplish all the
things they did during their tenure on earth. There are even more examples in the Bible, of incomprehensible
things God did.
And because God is
unchanging, He can still do ALL that and even more. 1 Corinthians 2:9 states
that: eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered into the
heart of man what God has in store for those who love Him. This means God will
even exceed His own greatness. He will do more than what we know He has done…
what we know He can do! Not only will He do great things for us, but HE will do
great things through us. How awesome to know!
So when I asked God
to show me what is in the works for this month of April, I believe He was
telling me that we need to begin to see things from a different perspective. We
need desire to know who He is, who He is to us, what He can do, and have the
faith that He is who He says He is.
We can get this
knowledge by taking off our human (carnal) eyes and putting on the eyes of the
Holy Spirit especially when we read and study the word of God. When we view God’s
word through the lens of His Spirit…we will begin to see God for who He really is,
and not who we perceive Him to be. We also should yearn to get more deeply intimate
with God…for He will surely reveal Himself to those who get close to Him. Draw
near to God, and He will draw near to you…the Scripture says.
When we truly come
to know God and add faith to this knowledge….absolutely nothing shall be
impossible for us! We shall be strong and do great exploits!
Thus says the Lord.
HAPPY NEW MONTH!
