check well first! Some years ago, I was involved in the technical organizing of a healing concert organized by a friend where I worked with a team to handle the stage lightening effects for the event but while the concert was in top gear, the generator we were using to power all the lights just went off, suddenly! Myself and all the technical hands in the auditorium quickly rushed to the generator set and each one of us began to take turns to restart the generator. Was it the fuel? NO! because there was still enough fuel in the gen. Was it the plugs? NO, they were invariably new. So when we had run out of clues, we quickly switched over to prayers and took turns laying hands and attempting to switch it on. We bound the devil, casted out the demon sent by hell to frustrate the generator and tamper with the meeting, We decreed, prophesied, commanded, we even used praise at a point and when someone’s anointing seemed not to be solving the problem, another man took over, then at a point the gen would quickly come on and then go off…So at that point, I knelt down to God holding the generator, speaking all manner of mysteries that once the gen came on… it must not go off. I prayed with every grace I could muster shouting as the gen started… Alas! After two minutes, it just went off… To be sincere, I felt God disappointed me, even publicly! Then, the generator technician arrived and asked me to step aside. He didn’t pray! He just went straightaway to the oil compartment of the generator, opened the lid and announced, “Sir, there is no oil!” Kai! You can imagine how stupid I felt having prayed all manners of prayer as in Eph.6:18 and was already sweating. The technician’s announcement made me imagine how God would have been looking at us since the generator went off. I just hissed as if to say, “So there is no oil in this thing and we were prayingand doing deliverance for generator!” What a misuse of spiritual energy we engage in prayer before God when we do not check whether the ball was yet in our own courts! I learnt that lesson, that day… Next time, before you pray, Check well first! 2Co 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Eph.6:3-14: …Having done all to stand… Stand therefore… See how easy it is for us to blame God for our so called “un-answered prayer requests” while we have right in front of us the little simple things we left undone that would have made all the difference. Before you conclude that God is not being fair to you Or blame Him for your failure, Check well first! Before you resolve that your husband is a cheat OR your wife is a big mistake and you need to divorce? Check well first! Before you conclude your plans are not working and God is not answering your prayers, Check well first! Before shutting down that business opportunity, calling quit that relationship, given up prayers, loosing hope on a possible turn around /change, Check well first! Could it be, that there is something right there that if only you had done, the story would have been different? Sometimes the winning step was just yours to take. Sometimes it was you God had been waiting for as the next step to take in the line of your victory was your step not God, so while God is waiting on us, many times we are busy blaming God for being slow! Before you look at God with that bad eye… Check well first! Segun Coker SOV President Tel: 08055009977, TWITTER: @segcok , Facebook: Segun Coker, E-mail: seguncoker@ schoolofvirtue.org (mailto: seguncoker@ schoolofvirtue.org ) © 2013,"
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