Today, 17th November 2015, I finished my exam of today @ 9:15am and decided to watch a football match in Lagos Local Tournament tagged "Tikitaka Tournament" played @ Digital Building Institute (DBI), Oshodi, after watching 3 different matches of 6 teams, I decided to go see my friends whose paper was slated for 11 to check whether they are through @ 2:15pm, fortunately they were through, so we took off to go to our respective homes, to cut the long story short, we got to the bus stop and took different vehicles heading to various destinations.
I highlighted @ Ketu and took a bus heading to my place (Magboro), on our way, on the long bridge along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, a trailer behind lost control and smashed the side I was sitting but at this time I was tired and decided to have a nap, it had happened before I woke up, all the co-passengers on board were like "you didn't care and you were asleep, what if you had been crushed" I said "my God whom I serve never sleep nor slumber, his eyes is over me"
What's my point here, my dearly beloved?
Take a look @ this:
Let qoute a verse from the Bible;
"Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. " (Luke 17:33).
If there is one theme that you will see repeated over and over again in many of my articles is the extreme importance that each and every person can never do without RELATIONSHIP not even God.
For this reason, whosoever I meet, I always in one way or the other encourage them to turn their entire lives over to God the Father for Him to fully handle.
But if you have now just made Jesus your Savior. However, there is now one more big thing you must do. You must now make Jesus the Lord over your life. Jesus must now become both your Lord and Savior, not just your Savior.
You must now make the second biggest decision that you will ever make in this life.
The first biggest decision is whether or not you will accept Jesus as your personal Savior through His sacrificial death on the cross.
Now that you have done that, you have become truly saved and born again.
However, you are now faced with the second biggest decision that you will ever make in this life. And that decision is – who is going to run the rest of your life from here on in – you or God?
The Bible makes it very clear as to who should be guiding your steps in this life – and that Person is God the Father through the Holy Spirit!
This decision as to who will be running your life from here on in will determine the course your life will now take. If you decide to run your own life and call all of your own shots, then your life is going to take a completely different course as versus the one it would take if you would turn your entire life over to God the Father for Him to fully handle.
The Bible specifically tells us that if we choose to follow our own way and path in this life – then that path will eventually lead to death. In other words, you will have forever wasted your one and only opportunity to find out exactly what you were created for, and what your true divine destiny was going to be in the Lord.
The Bible makes it very clear that good works will not get us into heaven.
We can only be saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross. However, once we are saved, God the Father expects us to do something with what time we still have left down here on this earth. He now wants all of us to come and "work" for Him.
The Bible tells us that God will be "rewarding" us for the good works that we will do for Him while living down here on this earth. Again, these good works cannot get us saved, but they can get us the bigger and better rewards once we enter into heaven.
Once you are willing to completely surrender your entire life over to the God the Father for Him to fully handle, then what will happen next is that God will be setting you up to follow the specific path that He will want you to follow in Him – and in that path will be your call, your purpose, your duties, and the tasks that you will now be seeking to accomplish for Him. God now has a set plan and a set future for your life.
The Bible also states that "where there is no vision," the people will perish.
What I believe this verse is trying to tell us is that unless you know what your purpose is in this life, what you created for, and what it is you should be striving after – then you will aimlessly wander throughout your entire life never accomplishing anything of any real worth, and never fulfilling the divine destiny to which God has called you.
At this juncture, I want to say if you decide to take this article person, then go to hell!
Your life will "perish" right before your very eyes because you had never sought to do God's perfect will for your life. You thus will have forever lost and wasted the one and only chance you had to do something of any consequence in this life with what little time you had to do it in.
Here are 5 very good verses showing us that we all have a holy calling from the Lord, and that our days have been "determined and fashioned" to do something specific for the Lord.
+ "Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18)
+ "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)
+ "Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them." (Psalm 139:16)
+ Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass." (Job 14:5)
+ "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28)
+ For many are called, but few are chosen]." (Matthew 22:14)
Notice the verse from Psalm 139:16 is literally telling us that God knows exactly what He wants to do with our lives before we have even been formed in our mother's womb! It says that before we have even been born, God already has our days "fashioned" out for us. The next verse from Job 14:5 says that all of our days are "determined" by the Lord.
These two powerful words – "determined and fashioned" – are both telling us that God has our entire lives perfectly planned out for us if we are willing to enter into His perfect will for our life.
But the last verse, where it is stating that many are called but few are chosen, is sadly telling us that most people will never enter into God's perfect will for their lives.
I believe this verse is not talking about our salvation, but about our calls in God.
I believe this verse is showing us that God is "calling" many to come and work for Him, but most are turning Him down for various reasons. Most people would rather control their own destinies rather than turn the reigns of their life over to God the Father for Him to fully handle.
As a result, they will never find what their true divine destinies would have been in the Lord in this lifetime.
God Will Guide Your Steps in This Life
After coming into this full surrender with the Lord where He is now in full control of your life – two things will now start to occur. God will immediately place you on the path that He will want you to follow in Him. And on that path will be your call or calls, your jobs, and exactly what He will want you to do for Him for the rest of your earthly life.
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The second thing that will occur is that God will then start to guide your steps so that you can get to where you need to go to so you can fully accomplish everything that He will want you to accomplish for Him.
If God is going to call you to be a great musician, a great Bible teacher, a great evangelist, a great doctor, or a great policeman – then He is also going to have to guide your steps so that you can make it to the tops of these types of mountains.
These calls will not fruit out overnight. You will have to work and sweat to make it into these types of calls or whatever it is God is calling you to do for Him. This is where the real adventure of life is really at – in the climbing to the tops of these types of mountains.
So not only do you get God's best for your life as to what your divine destiny is going to be in Him – but you will also be getting God's guidance on a daily basis so that you can reach these kinds of specific goals.
If God is going to call you to be a great evangelist, but does not guide your steps on a daily basis on how to get there, then you will never make it on your own. You can only get to the top of your personal mountain in your call with God only if God is anointing you and leading you to be able to climb that mountain.
Otherwise you will never make it on your own. Jesus specifically says that without Him we can do absolutely nothing.
Many people have decided, without consulting God first, what mountains and goals they should be striving after in this life.
They then might make it halfway up their mountain, but then all of a sudden it happens – everything breaks down and they fall completely back down to the bottom of the mountain, literally losing everything they had built up in climbing halfway up that mountain.
The Bible says that unless God builds the "house" of our lives – we will labor in vain trying to do it all on our own. There are many Christians who are now living defeated and broken lives as a result of broken dreams – all because they were trying to do it all on their own without any of God's help, guidance, or power to get them there.
Again, study these next set of verses very, very carefully. These are major, foundational verses in which to ground on in your walk with the Lord. The first verse will specifically tell you that it is the job of the Holy Spirit Himself to guide your steps in this life.
The Bible tells us that the steps of a good man are "ordered" by the Lord, and that it is not in man to try and direct his own steps in this life. And that if he does try to direct his own steps in this life, that its way will eventually lead to death!
The Bible says that the road God will now place us on is a "straight" and narrow road. There is no turning back once you enter in on the path of God's perfect will for your life.
In the second last verse, it specifically tells us that if we seek to go after our own way in this life, that we are looked upon by God as sheep that have gone astray.
All of these verses are extremely powerful. Notice the specific words that I will now number and bold for you, once again to hammer home the point that it is God's job to fully guide your steps in this life.
Led by the Spirit of God
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord
It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps
A way which seems right to a man … its end is the way of death
A man's steps are of the Lord
The Lord directs his steps
Direct my steps by Your Word
Be followers of God as dear children
My sheep hear My voice … and they follow Me
He shall direct your paths
He leads me by still waters
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
Leads you by the way you should go
Lead me in your truth
I will guide you with My eye
Lead me in a smooth path
The Lord will guide you continually
He will be our guide even to death
Led them by day … to give them light on the road which they should travel
When you read all of these key phrases one after the other, there is no question that the only way for each and every Christian to live this earthly life is under a full and complete surrender with God the Father – with God leading your life every step of the way on a daily basis through the Holy Spirit. There is no other way in which to live this life. I do not think God the Father could have made it any more clearer than by the way that He has worded all of the above Scripture verses.
The Consequences of Not Fully Following God
One of the most dramatic examples of one group of people who followed God "fully" and another group who did not were the Israelites who were tested by God the Father in the desert after being rescued from the Egyptians in the story of Moses.
Near the beginning of the 40 year wilderness experience, they were all getting ready to go into the Promised Land to reap their big reward in God.
However, before they went in, they sent in twelve spies to see what their enemies looked like and what they would encounter once they crossed over to possess the land from some of these evil people. When the spies came back, ten of them came back with a bad report. They said the enemies were too big and that their kingdoms were too well fortified.
Mind you, the Israelites had just seen one of the greatest displays of God's power that the world has ever seen when He threw 10 whopper plagues at the Pharaoh to set them free.
Yet, just as they were getting ready to cross over into their Promised Land, they started questioning and doubting that God could take these enemies out for them, even though God had just got done delivering them from an entire Egyptian nation several years earlier!
When God sees their lack of faith and belief in Him that He could conquer these lands for them, He threw up His hands and said that was going to be it.
He pronounced a severe judgment on them, telling them that all of the men 20 years of age and older would not enter into the Promised Land due to their lack of faith and belief in Him to be able to accomplish this mission for them, and because they had not "wholly followed God."
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