There are so many things happening in Christendom that a lot of us are becoming confused. You are seeing people holding the Bible and serving God wrongly, but anointing keeps flowing in those places they minster. You are seeing fornicators, occultic people, fraudsters, liars and adulteress; men of God marrying and divorcing their wives and re-marrying and they go behind the pulpit, and testimonies flow. Large crowd of people keep following them! If you try to follow the Bible, people are not ready to listen to you. They will call you names! But as Apostle Paul said, ‘’I will show a mystery’’
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And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel’’- Ezekiel 14:9
Can God deceive somebody? Yes. And there are people holding the Bible and going to church, it is a lying spirit from the Lord that is leading them to serve God the way they are serving him. Take what I am saying to you seriously because it is an answer to a question in my heart and in the heart of all that truly want to serve God. This message will achieve two things;
One is for you to take and inward look at your life. This is why Apostle Paul said, ‘’Examine yourself if ye be in the faith’’ it makes you look at yourself and know whether you are on the right or wrong path. In which part of God’s programme are you?
This is because the deceived and the deceiver are his. It is a mystery. God said he created the good and the evil. He created the evil, he will release the evil. Is God not the creator of Satan; Lucifer? Did he not know that Satan will turn against him? I caught something also in the Bible where God says, Nebuchadnezzar is his servant. He told Jeremiah to prophesy to the people and all the nations, including Judah that he has given them to ‘’My servant Nebuchadnezzar to rule over you’’
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Nobody should argue with anyone that says God called him. The question is; what type of call? The Bible says, ‘’make your calling and election sure’’ this is because it is not everyone that is called that is chosen. Yet many are called but few are chosen. You have to catch this because Peter was called and Judas was equally called by the same Jesus. But where did Judas end? And where did Peter end?
That is the mystery. Every Christian wants to walk in the perfect will of God and so before we take any major decision, it is normal to enquire of the Lord. That was why there was an office of a prophet in Israel and that is why we also have prophets in the church
For instance you are coming to God to enquire whether to relocate from Nigeria to Vietnam (because that is the present destination of choice for our Igbo brothers now) and you have made up your mind to go there because you know your purpose of going there; to you, nothing will stop you from going there. Even before going to the prophet, you have already applied and processed your visa through you agent. It is after you have done this that you will remember that it is necessary to see a prophet to enquire from God. That is the idol in your heart! You have already made up your mind. God is saying that because you have this mindset, He (God) will come and talk to you through that prophet according to the idols of your heart- ‘’Thus saith the Lord, your way is open to go to Vietnam’’
We should therefore know that it is not every, ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ confirming something for you that is actually the perfect will of God for you. It is God that may be confirming what you want for you.
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There should be a standard in your relationship with God and if you are not ready to live your life ruled by the Word of God, then you are not qualified to be called his seed.
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Another example is Balaam whose went back to confirm to God if he should cause his children even when God told him not to. Balaam proceeded in causing the Israelite when the money given to him was doubled and when he asked God again, God permitted him so he will be destroyed.
Another thing to put in mind is that if you carry your church on your head, you and your church will perish! Why because the Bible tells us God’s chosen place of worship is not in any church but in the temple of your heart. If you come to church and you are still living the life of an unbeliever, then you are just a religious person.
My dear Christians do not allow the wiles of your flesh lead you into deception by God, follow Christ, do not come to him with cunningly devised fables, be diligent in making your calling and election sure and add virtue to your faith
May God not deceive you, let your hope be built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness
Shalom