2 Cor. 7:1-3
Observation: –
Why is it that after many years of dealing some remain the same? Some individuals have a forceful will; some have strong emotions, some have badly wounded emotions, others have a strong mind. Since the Lord is able to heal these why is it that after many years some are still unchanged? We believe there are two main reasons.
First, many who live without a revelation, are not seeing the hand of God. While God is working, while God is crushing, they do not recognize it as being from Him. They are devoid of light, seeing only men opposing them. They imagine their environment is just too difficult, that circumstances are to blame. So they continue in darkness and despair.
Second, another great hindrance to the work of destroying the carnal man is self-love. Let us remember that the one reason for all misunderstanding, all fretfulness, all the discontent, is that we secretly love ourselves. Thus we plan a way whereby we can deliver ourselves. Many times problems arise due to our seeking a way of escape—an escape from the working of the cross.
Application
We must have this light to see that whatever the Lord has done, we accept and believe ; the Lord can do no wrong.
Prayer
May God give us a revelation to see what is from His hand, that we may kneel down and say to Him, \”It is Thou ; since it is Thou, I will accept.\” At least we muse recognize WHOSE hand it is that deals with us. It is not a human hand, nor our family\’s, nor the brothers\’ and sisters\’ in the Church, but God\’s. We need to learn how to kneel down and kiss the hand, love the hand that deals with us.
We must ask God to take away the heart of self-love. As He deals with us in response to our prayer, we should worship and say, \”Oh Lord, if this be Thy hand, let me accept it from my heart.\”
- Pray that more changes will be effected in African nations with effective removal of the old paradigms.
- Pray that we will not act out of time! Moses acted outside the boundaries of the Kairos of deliverance and killed the Egyptian. The power of God and the revelation of God is bound up in the Kairos time.
- There is something bound up in the season of fruitfulness. When Moses was not positioned inside the Kairos boundaries, the power needed to shake an empire did not flow.