Never Again! (2)
Yes, you will recover all you lost and you will never be ashamed again! Praise God! But before we go on, can we just briefly look at what exactly brought the terrible situation on the children of Israel. This is very important if we actually want to avoid the same unpleasant experience. They were to go through that humanizing experience because of their disobedience to divine instructions. They were forsaking the laws of their God. When you disobey God or abandon His ways, you pay heavily for it. You invite punishment, problems, famine, battles (both seen and unseen), sicknesses, shame, defeats, etc. True!
I want you to look into your life right now. Look into our nation and you will see what brought us to this very unfortunate situation. We have for long carried on as if God does not exist. We have consistently, deliberately lived as if we are not answerable to anybody. We have exceeded Sodom, Gomorrah and Babylon in wickedness, immorality, ungodliness, disobedience, materialism and Satanism. The people, the leaders and even the priests today compete in this unholy race. Now, tell me why the divine anger will not be let loose on us. God is even merciful on us. We have indeed exceeded Sodom and Gomorrah who were totally wiped out of existence because of their wickedness and immorality. Yes! We must run back to God now before the worst comes. You must come back to Him.
Look at the level of wickedness and corruption among our leaders. It's like once you're elected or appointed to a position in the land, then; you've been automatically sentenced to hell, because you must steal public fund. How many of our leaders will make it to heaven?? Tell me. Most of them, if not all will after all these worldly glory end up in eternal bondage, weeping, torment and gnashing of teeth in hell fire. They keep stealing and stealing away the common wealth while the masses die of hunger, accidents, preventable crimes, diseases, frustration, unemployment, etc. Let me leave this topic for another day. (I am already doing a write-up on it). Look at the priests (both the genuine and the fake). It is corruption, immorality, occultism, murder, materialism, worldliness, vainglory, vanity and strife everywhere!
The people, the leaders and the priests must immediately repent and come back to God. We must seek His face now. I mean, now! Collectively and individually we must do this. As a nation we must repent. As individuals we must look inwards. Why are all these happening to us? If we ignore this, then, we better get ready for the worse. Yes! Listen to this, "Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring everyone - the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. The priests, who minister in the LORD's presence, will stand between the people and the altar, weeping." Joel2:15-17. Everybody must get involved immediately. Individual, mass, national repentance!
As an individual, I want you to look into your life now. Are you currently standing right with God? Or is your attitude towards the word of God the cause of what you are going through. Return to Him today. Repentance will always precede divine intervention and deliverance. You're already moving out of that disgrace. We will comment more on some of these next week. God bless!
Rev Agbo is the author of the book Power of Midnight Prayer and a minister with the Assemblies of God Nigeria. Website:http://www.authorsden.com/pastorgabrielnagbo.Tel:08037113283
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