28/12/2024
Isaac ononivijesu, you supposed to start doing video, because I think people may not have enough time to read your articles. If God has asked you to be a writer, don't start doing videos because people don't read anymore. God has a purpose or a reason for every assignment He gives us.
For instance, the Bible, which is the greatest and wisest book, is still in a written form. If all the inspirational writers turn into video creators, I fear that the reading culture of believers will not be preserved.
I do not see a future where the bible will be translated into videos, even the audio bible that we have today isn't very effective. The written word or letter is still the most effective way to get correct revelation. There's something about beholding the written text that inspires the spirit of man. Psalms 107:20-21 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Psalms 119:89-90 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
I get alot of requests to do videos or at least convert my articles to audio. Our people have no problems watching a sermon on YouTube or listening to an audio message on their phone, but when it comes to opening their bible or a book to read, it's always a difficult task.
If you want to hide anything from young people today, just put it in a book. Your secret can only be safe in a book, as far as this generation is concerned. They have over 100 sermons they are listening to but is not transform them when they behave you will be asking yourself are they Christian?. Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Reading your Bible is very very important more than listening to sermon. When God want to voice out to you, He will refer to Scripture not sermon. You can hear a voice telling you to go an open this so so chapter an read. There is nothing bad in listening to sermons, messages but it must not take the place of study scripture away.
I read a story of how a father wrote his last will and kept the portion that belonged to the son in a bible. While the lawyer read the will and distributed every other person's inheritance, the only thing that was given to the man's son was the bible. The boy was angry, dropped the bible in his shelf and never opened it for many years. His anger for his late dad made him venture into many terrible things. Finally, he encountered the Lord and wanted to go to church. He unboxed the bible, and to his amazement, there was a letter in the very first page. That letter contained everything that was willed to him, including the father's companies.
When the lawyer read the will, it sounded as though the father willed the companies to the executives of the company. But in actual fact, they were to manage the company until the boy finds that letter which is in the bible. Long story short, he got his inheritance.
Now that's natural, imagine the quality of inheritance you'd find if you sit down with your Bible and study. There is so much that God has willed to us, and they are written within the pages of the Bible. As much as I'd like to make it easier for you to access them, audio or video bibles may hide some details that only the Holy Spirit can reveal to you. Everytime you think of your Bible, think of that boy. There's nothing that could be done to convert that letter to audio or video, he had to open that bible by himself. We all have to develop a habit of reading the Bible by ourselves, so that we can see our own inheritances.
How then do you hear God? The Bible and other spiritual books would teach you how to hear from God, but if you don't read them, how then do you know when God speaks?
There's no case that has come to me that doesn't have a root in lack of reading. I pray at night, but no matter how many hours I spend praying, I still take time to read afterwards. When I wake up in the morning, I still read my bible. Why wouldn't I be different from you? I know my inheritance and I walk in them, but you've chosen to watch videos and sermons alone. The more complicated ones are those who just watch Shorts and Reels on Tiktok or Instagram. Shorts can only help you for a short time, and Reels aren't actually real life.
Please, before you watch a Christian video on Reels, read a real bible or a Christian book. You have to be aware that not all inspirational contents are related to your inheritance. Just because the video inspired you doesn't mean it's your inheritance. Read your Bible! Read your Bible! Read your Bible! You can only have inspiration by reading not by listening to sermon.
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. John 5:39-40
[39]You carefully study the Scriptures. You think that they give you eternal life. These same Scriptures tell about me!
[40]But you refuse to come to me to have that life. Deuteronomy 28:58
If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Isaiah 29:18
And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
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