Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be
moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear: Heb.12:28
Welcome family to the month of August which the Lord
has graciously tagged for us our month of stewardship. In this great year of
divine visitation, God wants us to see one of the things He does when He visits
His own. Since the completion of the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Church has been looking forward to His return to the earth to rule the
earth for a thousand years showing all what true leadership is as well as a
true state of utopia.
As we approach the end of time, the Lord has been
signaling to His Church that His soon return was getting nearer by the day.
Anyone who has been a student of bible prophecy would have observed that almost
all the signs preceding the return of the Lord foretold in the Bible have come
to pass already. At the end of last year, the Lord declared this to be our year
of divine visitation and He gave us the following scripture with another as our
anchor scripture for the year:
“And, behold,
I come quickly, and my reward is with me; to give to every man according as his
work shall be” … Rev.22:12
The other scripture He gave us is in Genesis 21:1
where we are told that the Lord visited Sarah as He promised and did unto her
as He had spoken and she conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his
old age even though the promise was made by God about twenty five years earlier
to Abraham. God brought it to pass as part of His reward to Abraham and his
wife when He told them to leave for an unknown location and they obeyed Him
without question.
In our year of divine visitation also, God has
promised to visit us and fulfil for us especially long standing promises He has
made to us. However, there is something we ought to understand in our walk with
God and that is the fact that for God to visit and reward us, there must be
some form of commitment from us to Him which will constitute the basis of His
reward. When we walk with God, we serve His interest and He in turn blesses us
with His reward.
Since the commencement of the kingdom of God on earth
from the day of Pentecost, the Church has been planted by God and is growing by
the day through the activity of the Holy Spirit among us. From the first
Century when the Church was planted until now, the Church has grown
exponentially.
The foundation of the Church is the revelation that
Jesus is the anointed one and the builder of the Church. See Mt.16:18-19. He
sends his Apostles and prophets to plant the Churches and causes others to
build on it but He is the one who is responsible for its increase. [1Cor.3:6-7]
Since then, everyone who is part of the body of Christ has been engaging in one
form of service or the other in the Kingdom of God. Everyone who is born again,
is a part of the body of Christ and belongs to this great kingdom of the Son of
God prophesied of by men of God like Daniel in Dan.2:44.
The time draws nearer now when this ever growing
Kingdom of God is about to be brought down to concrete existence with the Lord
Himself reigning physically on earth with us and ruling over it for a thousand
years preceding the final end. The Lord promises to come quickly with His
reward to be given to everyone laboring in His kingdom according to the
quality, content and quantity of his or her labor.
For our stewardship which means service in God’s
Kingdom to qualify for a reward, God has to certify it as acceptable as we have
seen in our first text scripture. Make no mistake, serving in God’s Kingdom is
the best place to be because no institution pays like God does. For example in
the Old Testament, we are assured of divine provision, protection, no
miscarriage or bareness and fulfillment of our days if we subscribe to serving
the Lord. In the New Testament, we are guaranteed divine health and prosperity
– wholeness with nothing missing and nothing broken together with fertile
mentality and divine presence. See Mt.28:18-20;
Mk.16:15-20; 3Jn.1:2 and 2Tim.1:7. At the end when He returns we are also
promised eternal life and multitude of packages to go with it as indicated in
Revelation Chapters 2 and 3.
In light of the foregoing, we shall be embarking on an
adventure this month to understand what the requirements for acceptable
stewardship are from God’s perspective and how we can line up with them to
be positioned for His reward. Thus we shall be looking at a series I title: Exploring the Adventures of Stewardship
This month God wants to set us up to be positioned for His reward. In fact, stewardship
is stage by stage and in every stage God rewards those who serve His interest.
The beauty of service in God’s Kingdom is that it is open ended and you can
therefore choose to serve anywhere you deem fit to further God’s interest. In
addition, stewardship is not a gift; it is a choice you make. If you have made
the choice to serve God, then you do not wait for opportunities to do so; you
create the opportunity. As soon as Saul who became Paul encountered Christ, he
began to preach the gospel; he was not originally an apostle; he became one
through His service of God’s interest. This month, I see God helping each of us
with His zeal to live ready for Him as we serve His interest in any capacity in
anticipation of His soon return.
Someone may be reading this blog now that is yet to
make that noble decision for Christ; I have good news for you, you can do so
right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will become
initiated into the family of God through the new birth experience:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you
raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus
Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of
Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this
father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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