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Sermon #27: THE BATTLE BELONGS TO THE LORD

  “But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand …” Exodus 3: 19-20 I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him,” God said to Moses. I rephrase this statement as follows: “I know that the devil will not leave you alone unless a mighty hand compels him.” That sounds totally true. Satan has to be compelled to leave you alone, to let you go. He will never willingly let you go. This goes to show the determination that Satan has when it comes to constraining the children of God; he wants to keep them in bondage forever. Christians, therefore, need to be more determined than the devil to free themselves from his shackles. Unfortunately, a number of Christians are too lukewarm or absent-minded to even think of getting their freedom; such Christians, therefore, remain under Satan’s bondage in various areas of their lives. The devil is determined to bind you forever. If the devil i...
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Sermon #11: A LAND THAT BECKONS


“The LORD had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.’” Genesis 12:1


I will approach the above-cited Bible verse from a different angle.

I will refer to spiritual migration, not physical migration. I believe that is what the Bible verse was pointing to in the ultimate.

“Go from where you are, to a different place that I will show you,” God told Abram.

There is a place one can get to, a place one needs to get to, and only God can point one to such a place.

There is a spiritual place that is beckoning to each one of us.

God shouts “Go!”

“Come!” the spiritual place beckons.

I prefer to look at this matter this way; the spiritual place beckons not only to the unsaved but also to the saved. For both the saved and the unsaved, and until we depart from the earth, the spiritual place will always beckon to each of us.

The unsaved are invited to enter the spiritual place for the very first time. For the saved, this involves journeying within the spiritual place to even higher dimensions.

Journeying means moving from Point A to Point B.

If you do not move, then you are not journeying. However, many people forcefully claim to be journeying or to have journeyed even though they remain at Point A according to irrefutable evidence. It’s not in the talking, or the claiming, but in the actual steps evidently taken.

Spiritual migration does not necessarily involve physical migration. You can migrate from your country, your people, and your father’s household while you still live with them, and cordially so, under the same roof.

In the spirit, you can be totally different from the next person without necessarily engendering any kind of friction.

So, this is the call – we have to be always journeying, everybody!

Is this the kind of encouragement you are prepared to heed?

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