This was the final day of the leader’s conference and our man of God sent us back into the world fully fired up. Our final ministration had to do with taking personal spiritual initiative. We were told that God blesses us for doing what he tells us to do. Our man of God told us that if we hear from our spirit and we do not do anything about it would reach a stage where our spirit is deceived and stops acting in a way that would ensure us eternal life. Our man of God emphasised to us that when we take spiritual initiative we function in a higher realm doing things before the lord tells us to do so. He gave several examples in the bible of those who did what they were told and more and profited tremendously. To emphasise the importance of pro activeness. Those that were blessed because they took initiative were blessed for their entire generations not just themselves.
We say in Numbers 25:1-13 where Phinehas took initiative and acted on behalf of the lord and so was blessed exceedingly as seen in verses 10 – 13 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
He took initiative for the sake of the gospel. No one told him to do it but he did and saved the entire land of Israel from thwarting wrath of the lord. Many times we are waiting to be told before we do something. Our man of God let us know that when we give, we should give like we are the only people giving for the task and not try to calculate how much others would give before we give because as he who takes spiritual initiative would be rewarded exceedingly .
Other examples of those who took initiative are David who took the initiative to fight Goliath and we all know how that ended, Joseph who after interpreting the dream for the Pharaoh took initiative and proffered a solution. We also know how that ended. There are numerous examples of such situations in the bible and our situations would be similar only if we can take spiritual initiative.
God would reward us for what he tells us to do but the extra. We do would God would bless us even much more that the act itself.
As members of The Super Church we should try and take spiritual initiative and our Man of God also charged to make sure we take not of things and situations where we can be of help and act without waiting to be told to do so.
I thank our exceedingly good Lord for giving me the opportunity to be a part of The Super Church and the opportunity to serve him. I pray the lord gives me the privilege of doing more things for him. I also pray that everyone reading this also is given the same privilege.
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