02 Jul God is for You by Dr Mike Okonkwo
‘’So what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? Romans 8:31 (MSG)
What a joy to be alive and well to be a part of the grand finale of this year’s edition of Word Celebration. Indeed, God has visited us as individuals, families and as a ministry. I want to specially salute all the men and women for the input they made in this year’s conference. I also use this opportunity to salute the various planning committees at the different levels. You have done a great work and the Lord will surely fill your mouth with testimonies in Jesus name.
Without doubt, God has used this period to deliver valuable keys into our hands in order to ensure that His word becomes a reality in our lives. I am sure you are very familiar with the above-mentioned scripture in Romans 8:31. All God is trying to remind you of in that scripture is the fact that He is for you all the way. If you back up a little from verse 28, you will notice that God is indeed committed to making all things whether good or bad work together for your good. When you read from verse 26, you will realize that God is so interested in you to the extent that even when you don’t know how or what you should pray for, the Holy Spirit helps your weakness by interceding for you with groaning that cannot be uttered. What the scripture is revealing to you is that God will go to any length to prove that He loves you. That is the God you serve. He ensures that head or tail, you win.
Beloved, do you realize that even your salvation was not your idea? It was His idea and you had nothing to do with it. Ephesians 2:1 puts it this way: ‘’And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…’’ Did you see that? You were already dead in sins and there was nothing good about you, but look at what the scripture says in Romans 5:8… ‘’But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’’ Simply put, when you were headed in the wrong direction, it was He who turned you back, cleaned you up and reconnected you to the destiny that He had prepared for you in Christ.
Like I said at the beginning of this conference, your present circumstances and challenges does not change the fact that God is for you. Let the devil jump up and down, God has your back covered. Nothing has the capacity to diminish His love for you. Remember you were saved by grace and not by what you did or didn’t do, so don’t feel condemned. Understand also, that that grace which saved you is also able to keep you till the end. In other words, God is not going to give up on you now. He does not jump ship. He has loved you with an unconditional love and nothing can change it. When He looks at you, He see you through the eyes of Jesus. There is absolutely nothing you can add to what He has already done. Your addition and sacrifice will be too cheap and cannot save any person, so go to bed and rest in His finished work.
Beloved, this conference was put together to equip you with the word of God so that you can truly live the word and manifest the power therein. Like you already know, the evil in the day and hour we are living in is really unprecedented, so you cannot afford to just take things for granted. The arrows that are flying around are unimaginable and the only place of safety is the word of God. If God watches over His word to perform it, then you cannot afford to live outside the word of God. Stand on the word and let the word truly be more important to you than your necessary food. I therefore implore everyone both men and women, to buy copies of the messages preached during this conference in whatever format you are comfortable with. You need to hear those messages over and over again for faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
As this conference comes to a close, I want you to go forth with a knowing that the world out there will bow to you, because God is for you. Child of God, you have been empowered, now is the time to go out and shine. I declare to you by the authority in the word of God that you will not be put to shame. Your expectation will not be denied. You will not labour in vain nor bring forth for trouble. The Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing upon you.
As you go into this week, as always, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. As a father in the house, I bless you.
In His Royal Service
Dr. Mike Okonkwo, The Presiding Bishop
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