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Confirmation

1 Samuel 10

In every confirmation, there is always a confrontation. When God decided to chose Saul as the first king in < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel, the enemy took a stand of confrontation. God has confirmed you for advancement in a certain area of your life and you are set to go. Know that God will see you through. Confrontation will come, but your continuation will not cease because God has called you. Did He not call you? God anointed Saul to become a commander over His people. God directed Samuel as we read in 1 Samuel 10:1, ÒThen Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said: ÔIs it not because the LORD has anointed you commander over His inheritance?ÕÓ Man did not call him, people did not anoint Saul, it was God Himself that called him and anointed Him. One typically expects a smooth sail and no confrontation. 1 Samuel 10:27, ÒBut some rebels said, ÔHow can this man save us?Õ So they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.ÕÓ Does that sound like your situation? Is your confrontation coming from inside your family or from your closest friends? Let it be known to you, He that called you will back you up. The word of God is not a decoration it is for us to operate in it. Learn from King Saul. He held his peace because it is of God. If yours is not of God then there is problem. If you know it is not a scheme in any form, go ahead and hold on to peace of God that surpasses all understanding.

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Jude 1:1-7

Salvation through Jesus Christ is a gift from God. Romans 6:23, ÒFor the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Ó A gift remains a gift until it is taken and unwrapped around the receiver, then it becomes given. Have you opened yourself to the love of God, the gift that is from above to deliver you? Also, salvation is a vehicle and the driver is the ability to believe. Do you remember the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel that left Egypt? It was salvation that became a vehicle for them out of bondage of over 400 years. As they journeyed through the wilderness, the lack of belief is what terminated them from getting through to the promise land — the final destination. In fact, it can not be clearly spelled out better than how the word of God came through Jude. Jude 1:5, ÒBut I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.Ó You have been given the free gift, stop carrying it around with the gift bag. Open your gift; open yourself for the gift of God to become your identity. Let the gift of God begin to carry you, trust in the gift of God, believe in the gift of God and you will get to the expected end. A failure to open up to the gift will lead to eternal damnation.

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2 Peter 3:8-18

With spots, you are on the missing avenue. The word of God is not to be taken for a joke. He meant His requirement for Kingdom qualification. 2 Peter 3:9, ÒThe Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.Ó The word said you have to be spotless. Where there is a spot, there is no transparency; when there is no transparency, there will be no transformation in you. Are you an acting Christian or a practicing Christian? You yourself know for sure where you are in the race of life. Your pastor only knows about you and no one knows you better than yourself. Trusting in the Lord is the identity of those that are transparent. The transparent one is the one that has nothing to carry because he or she is being carried by trusting the Lord. The Lord meant His requirement, and if it was impossible to meet, He would not have requested for a church (you) to be blameless and spotless. 2Peter 3:14, ÒTherefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless.Ó It is a plain and simple fact that Light is what will terminate all those dark spots in your life as a Christian. Today, let Jesus, the Light of life, have His way in your life and you will have life.

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Job1:1, 2:1-9, 42

Are you wandering how sudden things went down for you? You love the Lord, you are serving Him with all your heart, and you are faithful in all areas as much as you know. All that were booming for you is looming in the lowest level for you. You have prayed, you are praying but it seems you are getting no where in the midst of it all. Remember Job? With the level of his relationship with God he suffered the worst compared to your situation. Job was described, Job 1:1, ÒThere was a man in the < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.Ó The description of the man Job, should have kept him from all weapons formed against him. However, the weapon of the enemy sailed through, because God allowed it to be. This is not a suggestion that your story is the same, however, if you are standing in the Lord, it s worth it for you to consider the story of Job as a written message for you. Because God allowed it was the reason why the enemyÕs weapon that sailed through could to stand. Job knew His God, Job1:22, ÒIn all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.Ó How are you responding to your challenging time? How you respond will also determine how you overcome. Remember, the good time will come again and it will be bigger and more magnified. Go back to God and give a great and hearty thanksgiving for all He has done and all that He will do.  Job said, shall we accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? (Job2:10). If He allowed yours He will see you through, just like He did for Job.  

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Luke14:11-32

The prodigal son wanted to change the plans of God for his life. He could not wait any longer so he decided to have the time changed. He went to his father and asked for the portion of goods that belonged to him. He went and journeyed to a far country. He changed the hand of the clock for his life but could not change the timing of God for his life. Consequently, he could not wait for GodÕs time. Luke15:14, ÒBut when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.Ó He began to be in want because he could not wait. Famine, which represents lack, became his portion. The consequence of turning the hand of the clock to catch up with the timing of God will cause you to be wasted. The prodigal son tampered with GodÕs time and he was hammered by an unbearable situation. Luke 15:16, ÒAnd he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.Ó Are you seriously considering turning the hand of your clock to usher yourself into GodÕs business? It is not possible to wait for GodÕs timing and waste. Turn and take it all to God. Do not turn to your clock by taking things up by yourself. The prodigal son came to himself and went back home to avoid self destruction. You might not come to yourself before it is too late; you need to wake up and let God have His way in your life.