THE CHURCH IS NOT YET SAFE The more I study Jesus words line by line, the more I repent daily and the more I pray for the church to repent also. The church is not safe until our communities, societies and nation is saved. Let me show the words in the Lord’s Prayer that open me to this kingdom secret. Our father…..Give us……forgive us…..lead us…..deliver us……Matt 6:9-12 The connotation ‘our and us’ in the Lords’ prayer denotes the followings: • God is our father and not just your father. Father in Hebrew and Greek is Abba and pater which mean source and sustainer. He is the source of the earth, everybody and everything in it. He is the father of the sinners, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Indus, the poor and the rich etc. The same love He has for you is same love He has for the person you called a sinner or Buddhist or an occult etc. If you come to God in prayers for your personal interest only and not the interest of the community, then according to Jesus, your prayer is wrong. • ‘US’ in the Lord’s Prayer connote a community or a society etc. Prayer is citizens making petition to the government on behave of the community. According to Jesus, never go to the Father for personal interest, but go for the interest of the society. Wow! This is tough. Instead of praying Father give me money…you should pray Father give us money….instead of praying Father, deliver me from evil…you should instead pray deliver us (the community) from evil…or instead Father prosper me; pray Father prosper us (the community). Why Jesus; because until the community prospers, you are not prosperous. Until our society is delivered from evil, we are not yet safe as a church. No wonder we pray and don’t have answers. • ‘US’ also denotes kingdom law of connectivity. This Law state, “We are all connected to one another.” You are not completely safe until everybody is saved. According to this Law, if you are saved in a family and the family is not saved, then you are not yet safe because any problem in your family will affect your daily activities. If you are in a nation and that nation is not saved, then you are not safe because any instability in the nation will affect whatsoever you are doing in that nation. Pastors’ cannot be financially free until their members are financially free. The church is not safe until the world is saved. Any instability is the world, will affect the activities of the church. Therefore for the church to be completely safe, she must ask God to use her to change her community, society and nation not praying to go to Heaven. In Africa, particularly Cameroon, we have heard of bandits breaking in to churches and making away with church equipments. I mean right in church. I think such actions are indications that the church is not yet safe until the world is saved. Anytime you sleep and chain your doors, you are not protecting yourself against animals but against unsaved community. True or False? Mordecai told Esther, “Don’t think you will be saved in the king’s palace.” Esther was busy enjoying her queen-ship when the lives of her people were as stake. The church is busy decorating and building new buildings when the world in is deep trouble. God help us. World leaders are seeking for solution to the worlds’ problem and the church who ought to provide direction is praying for Jesus to come and take them. God have mercy. The church is not safe. We are working hard by His grace to influence our community with kingdom principles because; I’ m not also safe until my community is safe. Please, just pray this prayer with me, ‘Father change me to change my community and nation.’ Please your Questions or comments. Thanks
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:47:23 +0000
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