14/10/2017
Service: Deliverance Hour
Date: September 22, 2017
Message: ENVY AND JEALOUSY
Text: Genesis 26:11-17
Envy is the godfather of retardation, it’s a lover of unproductivity – Senior Pastor, GCFC.
Envy is the manifestation of satan’s true nature. Satan is a hater of progress (esp.) when it concern God’s children.
Envy causes disaster in the mind of its carrier. Be steadfast with an envious person! Envy thrives immensely in our world today. Nobody want to see you making progress in life. That is why this message is here to enlighten the average Christian to sit up and tighten the knot, knowing quite well that the blessing of God creates envy among friends and foes.
As a true believer, it is certain that God is going to water the seeds (maybe through tithes, offerings, good deeds etc.) of our hands in due course. When this time finally comes, envy and jealousy will and must be establish. A believer must have it in mind that it is either he sustain the blessings of God or loose it amidst jealousy and envy. Disheartening, is the fact that so many supposed-to-be-prosperous believers were stopped by enviers.
Believers should be aware of these set of people while asking God for blessings. Unknowingly to you, someone might be jealous of your possessions, children, achievements, societal high-ranking and many more. We as believers, we are blessing carriers, the earlier we admit the presence of envy around us, the better, because it gives us grounds to prepare for whatsoever comes may. The bible, in the book of Genesis, recorded the first event where envy took place. It happened in the time of Cain and Abel, though they were close pals but the manifestation of this evil (envy and jealousy) caused great damage and at the end a true child of God lost his life. You may ask, where was God? Well, God is responsible for blessings, He is not responsible when evil befalls His blessing. Refer back as at the time Satan was cast down to earth… the bible recorded an exclamation, “Woe unto the inhabitant of the earth…” Woe means, ‘great sorrow or distress, troubles”. What makes you think there will be no more troubles when your prayers are answered, when you finally take-in (pregnancy), when you finally get your dream job, when you finally drive that car, when you finally get married, who told you there will be no problems, Wait! Problems are ahead at every given step you make in life.
Several others like Esau, Samson lost what was theirs to those who envied them. You may want to know how.
- ESAU
This man was supposed to be the backbone on which the covenant between Father Abraham and God will be resting, but never knew how envious Jacob his brother is, knowing that the first child is to claim all rights and belongings of the father. This troubled Jacob for so long, waiting for a chance to restructure God’s plan. Believers must not take chance to destroy every trace of envy on their way. Esau (as an average Christian) sold his blessings foolishly to Jacob the envier. Esau was fooled into setting the cart before the horse. A child of God must be wise when it comes to making crucial decisions especially, one between a jealous person.
- SAMSON
The most foolish Judge Israel has ever had. God gave him all. Till date, no one has possess such strength like Samson’s. Amidst the blessings God bestowed on Samson, he was reckless, disobedient and unwise. Though, his powers during his reign was useful/meaningful until those (the enviers, Palestinians) that say he must not journey to the end of his destiny succeeded in mapping out a way to destroy Sampson through what he like best (womanizing).
When a jealous person mean harm, he will be a friend to those around his victim so as to ignite every bit of information gotten about his victim for effective destruction. Samson lost his blessing in his enemy’s camp while eating and dining with people of envy and jealousy. Why call a person “A Friend” when you have little or no knowledge about him or her. Sometimes our friends are our problem, the earlier we recognize the fake ones, the nearer we are to the solution to our problems.
With much studies, it is observed that 95% of our problems are caused by us. God made it a necessity that His children must prosper no matter the circumstance, it is left for us to know if the beneficiaries of our prosperity are happy for us or not.
Isaac was another man who succeeded and marched pass the line of prosperity in the land Gera while the people (inhabitants) of Gera continue failing, though the this guys (people of Gera) did not know the source of Isaac’s success and that is why your enemies must die for fighting the unknown. God’s blessing is never hidden. You can be a nobody today, but when God finally bring you to limelight, people must say something good or bad about you. Read. 1 Samuel 18:7-9, 10-11, Daniel 6:1-5, Matthew 27:15-18.
Brethren! Even our Lord Jesus Christ suffered ENVY AND JEALOUSY. John 7:38, John 8:12
PRAYER POINT: Lord Jesus give me the power to sustain your blessings in my life.
Remain bless.