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31/07/2018

Faithland Healing Ministries Intl

We are wishing our Father and Mentor, A man of Grace and Authority. Happy birthday Daddy Chikamso Okechukwu (The Liberation prophet)

05/12/2017

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31/07/2017

Growingseed Ministries Intl is wishing our Father and Mentor, A man of Grace and Authority. Happy birthday Daddy Chikamso Okechukwu (The Liberation prophet)

31/07/2017

Celebrate a legend, A hero, A man with Authority, A dynamic preacher. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO CHIKAMSO OKECHUKWU

27/05/2017

If God is going to ever use you to bring about an intervention in other people's lives, he must first interrupt your own plan and programme. it is divine interruption that begets divine intervention.

18/09/2016

"When He Comes... Beware of Empty
Doctrine"
So when Jesus came, He found that he had already
been in the tomb four days. Now Martha said to Jesus,
'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have
died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of
God, God will give You.'Jesus said to her, 'your brother
will rise again.' Martha said to Him, 'I know that he
will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.'Jesus
said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And
whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do
you believe this?''She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe
that you are the Christ the Son of God who is to come
into the world.
John 11:17, 21-27 NKJV:
The above conversation between our LORD and Martha
has a lot to teach us, as regards the matter of labouring
with Him in Revival.
Martha was a principal seeker of Jesus for the
deliverance of Lazarus. She took the lead in sending for
Jesus; but something seemed to have happened to her
faith in the whole thing. This was revealed in her
discussion with the LORD, on the way.
Let us note here that the determination of Jesus to
come this far was not in consultation with Martha. It
was Christ's deliberate choice. He was already on His
way with a clear focus “I am going to wake him up.” But
two miles to the spot of his intention, Martha kept him
at a standstill, while she fussed around in an act of
unbelief, which appeared to be a genuine display of
knowledge.
1. Beware of Empty Doctrine
“LORD, if you had been here, my brother would not have
died. But even now, I know that whatever you ask of
God, God will give You.”
This was all correct theologically. It was all well laid out
in terms of expression. It was very brilliant but it lacked
latent ingredient in the heart. Martha was committed to
doctrine so much that she could not see the personality
of Christ standing right there with her. “Your brother will
rise again” was the Master's firm declaration because
he had come to wake him up. It was a determinate
counsel he took far away in Judea, even before He
started on the journey to Bethany. Martha could have
asked: when and how will it happen? And that would
have left a room for divine instruction and impartation
of faith ... but she retorted almost by reflex: “I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last
day.”
The presumption that we all fall into severally is to
claim to know, rather than all at His feet to learn what
He is currently doing and teaching us. We fix permanent
interpretations to Scriptures and expect nothing new or
different. We quote scriptures copiously, insisting that
we know what the Author has in mind when he first
gave the inspiration. It turns us to become rigid,
unbending, non-compassionate scribes of the holy writ,
without the grace of His presence. True, Martha quoted
what she must have heard the Master teach in one of
His teaching sessions with the disciples but she missed
a matter here. All Scriptures only become alive and
relevant when He comes and quickens them again.
While we must be faithful to the context of Scriptures
all the time, we must live in the consciousness that it is
the Spirit (who is presently, currently and continuously
abiding and seeking to unveil the mind of Christ and the
purpose of God to us) that brings life and reality to the
Word we read or quote.
Martha was unwittingly rendering the personal presence
of Jesus unnecessary, by holding to the Scriptures she
earlier learnt. This was the same mistake of the
Pharisees. They learnt all the Scriptures. They gave
excellent exegesis of the word of God, but when the
WORD Himself came, they stumbled at Him because of
unbelief. They expected Him not to have come the way
he came. This actually was because “they knew not the
scriptures nor the power of God.”
This to me is the first hindrance we must watch in our
lives. Many great Bible scholars and even well-meaning
evangelical Christians miss out on the move of the
Spirit of God and of the power of God in revival,
because, their commitment to Scripture would not allow
them give attention to Him who has come to the shores
of their situation. They become so rigid at applying the
Scriptures that they become critical and suspicious of
anything or anyone who does not fit into what they
used to know. It becomes more dangerous, when we
silently resist Jesus and His Spirit at work, with our
mental knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.

18/09/2016

So when Jesus came, He found that he had already
been in the tomb four days. Now Martha said to Jesus,
'Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have
died. But even now I know that whatever You ask of
God, God will give You.'Jesus said to her, 'your brother
will rise again.' Martha said to Him, 'I know that he
will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.'Jesus
said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And
whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do
you believe this?''She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe
that you are the Christ the Son of God who is to come
into the world.
John 11:17, 21-27 NKJV:
The above conversation between our LORD and Martha
has a lot to teach us, as regards the matter of labouring
with Him in Revival.
Martha was a principal seeker of Jesus for the
deliverance of Lazarus. She took the lead in sending for
Jesus; but something seemed to have happened to her
faith in the whole thing. This was revealed in her
discussion with the LORD, on the way.
Let us note here that the determination of Jesus to
come this far was not in consultation with Martha. It
was Christ's deliberate choice. He was already on His
way with a clear focus “I am going to wake him up.” But
two miles to the spot of his intention, Martha kept him
at a standstill, while she fussed around in an act of
unbelief, which appeared to be a genuine display of
knowledge.
1. Beware of Empty Doctrine
“LORD, if you had been here, my brother would not have
died. But even now, I know that whatever you ask of
God, God will give You.”
This was all correct theologically. It was all well laid out
in terms of expression. It was very brilliant but it lacked
latent ingredient in the heart. Martha was committed to
doctrine so much that she could not see the personality
of Christ standing right there with her. “Your brother will
rise again” was the Master's firm declaration because
he had come to wake him up. It was a determinate
counsel he took far away in Judea, even before He
started on the journey to Bethany. Martha could have
asked: when and how will it happen? And that would
have left a room for divine instruction and impartation
of faith ... but she retorted almost by reflex: “I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last
day.”
The presumption that we all fall into severally is to
claim to know, rather than all at His feet to learn what
He is currently doing and teaching us. We fix permanent
interpretations to Scriptures and expect nothing new or
different. We quote scriptures copiously, insisting that
we know what the Author has in mind when he first
gave the inspiration. It turns us to become rigid,
unbending, non-compassionate scribes of the holy writ,
without the grace of His presence. True, Martha quoted
what she must have heard the Master teach in one of
His teaching sessions with the disciples but she missed
a matter here. All Scriptures only become alive and
relevant when He comes and quickens them again.
While we must be faithful to the context of Scriptures
all the time, we must live in the consciousness that it is
the Spirit (who is presently, currently and continuously
abiding and seeking to unveil the mind of Christ and the
purpose of God to us) that brings life and reality to the
Word we read or quote.
Martha was unwittingly rendering the personal presence
of Jesus unnecessary, by holding to the Scriptures she
earlier learnt. This was the same mistake of the
Pharisees. They learnt all the Scriptures. They gave
excellent exegesis of the word of God, but when the
WORD Himself came, they stumbled at Him because of
unbelief. They expected Him not to have come the way
he came. This actually was because “they knew not the
scriptures nor the power of God.”
This to me is the first hindrance we must watch in our
lives. Many great Bible scholars and even well-meaning
evangelical Christians miss out on the move of the
Spirit of God and of the power of God in revival,
because, their commitment to Scripture would not allow
them give attention to Him who has come to the shores
of their situation. They become so rigid at applying the
Scriptures that they become critical and suspicious of
anything or anyone who does not fit into what they
used to know. It becomes more dangerous, when we
silently resist Jesus and His Spirit at work, with our
mental knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.
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06/09/2016

"Change Your Mentality… Just
BELIEVE!"
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that
you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him. Then
Thomas , who is called the Twin , said to his fellow
disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with Him.
John 11:15-16 NKJV
In this conversation, there are issues we need to thresh
for our own learning and for our own sakes. Note this
very well. It is not for His own sake, it is not even for
Lazarus' sake; it is for our own sakes.... It is for our
own benefit.
“Lazarus is dead and I am glad for Your sakes that I
was not there ...”
Lord, open Your heart to me on this matter. Grant me
the privilege to see as you see. Let me express You
aright at this point in Jesus' Name.
“I am glad for your sakes...”
If He was there, there would have been healing but no
revival! It would have been a normal routine of ministry.
It would have remained a comparative work, after all,
even Peter's mother-in-law was sick and she was
healed.
What would be new if Lazarus was sick and was
healed...? He wanted them to experience a divine
dimension of Revival! A different phenomenon entirely,
different from routine preaching and healing. It is a
Revival - a raising of His friend from the dead, to
precede His triumphant entry into Jerusalem; and for us
a revival before He comes again in His majestic glory.
There is a matter here that the Holy Spirit wants to
unveil to our hearts. If He had been there, Lazarus
would not have died. He would not have become
anything other than Lazarus of Bethany - a casual
brother of Mary! He would bring no glory to Jesus! No
one would come specifically to see Lazarus and “the
whole world wouldn’t have gone after Jesus”, in the
language of the Pharisees, would not have been the
case.
There is a way a man can live, serve God and die,
without seeing revival in his own days ... his knowledge
of Christ's power remains potential but not dynamic. He
believes, but there is nothing more to it than mental
calculation ... his faith is somewhat active but largely
dormant! There is no opportunity to experience the
valley of dry bones. The rattling of bones; the coming
together of bones to become an army!
LORD, I am glad also that you were not there. It was
for my sake! Revival is a glorious privilege that only few
men are allowed to experience. Many were born when
everything ran smoothly and things were normal! They
had no reason to cry! No need for mountains to melt in
His presence! No occasion for the earth to quake! No
violent conviction that leads to total conversion.
Crusades were only organized, arranged, programmed
and executed. But a revival is not organized ... it only
comes when He, the Resurrection and the Life, comes to
the situation of a dying or rather a dead friend. It is a
divine action of God rather than the activity of anyone.
Yet look at what the disciples said,
“Lord, if he sleeps he will get well.”
This revealed the way they thought; just as every one of
us. We think it is easier to do certain things if the decay
hasn't gone too far. To get well from sleep was much
more conceivable to their hearts than to rise from the
dead. They knew little of their Master's power.
In the same way, our hearts rather seek the easier
option. We prefer what we can conceive, see or even
handle by ourselves, not knowing the power of God! A
divine intervention from heaven in the affairs of men
usually defies all human wisdom and calculation. It
usually silences all human programmes and projections.
This is what He has come to do. It is never too late for
Him to act. There is no stage of death and decay that
He cannot reverse and revamp. This is purely His own
work ... We are just to believe Him to act.
You need to change your mentality. He is not coming to
do what any other man or good planners can do. Why
will He come if massaging could bring Lazarus to life?
Revival is not what a man can organize ... we can only
cry and agonize till He comes to do the impossible. It is
a rare privilege to see God move swiftly into action
changing a death situation unto a vibrant freshness of
life.

03/09/2016

"A CHALLENGE TO ARISE 3: We Do Not Well."

“And when these lepers came to the utter-most part of the camp, they went into one tent and did
eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came
again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. Then they said
one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we
tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go
and tell the king's household. So they came and called unto the porter of the city, and they told
them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no man there, neither
voice of men, but horses tied, and asses tied and the tents as they were. And they called the
porters; and they told it to the king's house within…”
2Kings 7:8-11 KJV
God has given the church in Nigeria an opportunity to affect the land positively, but we do not well.
We emphasize that which is foolish; we do not pay attention to righteousness. We do not well and
mischief is coming on us. Men have learnt our language, and our gimmicks, and they have decided
to use these against us. The young man you did not share the Word of God with may become your
executor tomorrow.
Churches have become so rich that they are beginning to float finance houses and banks. It is
unheard of that Kingdom resources are tied up in the world system. Some mischief will come upon
us if we tarry. Those lepers spoke to one another. I wish you will throw a challenge to the next
Christian Brother around you and speak to him. Ask him if he has shared the little experience he
had. Have you gone to call men that are still groping in darkness to “come and see, the Lord has
pushed down your enemy? Jesus has conquered the devil on your behalf?” There is a leprous
characteristic that has been manifesting in our lives: the characteristic of eating and drinking and
packing and hiding. It is a leprous manifestation. You need someone to tell you. You do not well if
in the midst of your noise, and excitement; in the midst of all we think is happening wonderfully
around us, you do not share it? You do not well. Brothers, though God has given us definite promise
of breakthrough, yet if we tarry with the work of sharing the good news some mischief will come
upon us.
May be there is an open door of ministry that is set before you. God Himself opened it for you. Step
to it, tarry not, otherwise some mischief will come, and these things you think you will live long to
enjoy, you may not be part of them again. God may open some certain doors to you where business
will fall on your own side. That is not for you to change your raiment, nor to drink, and eat and
overeat but that you may share it. If you remain sluggish and unconcerned, some mischief will come
your way and nobody will be able to explain it.
“Now therefore come that we may go and tell the king’s household, so they came and called unto
the porters of the city and told them.” Thank God for those lepers. God is going to make you
supernaturally strong but it is for a purpose: that you might go and tell the Good News, not to keep
coming again and again, asking, “What is the latest?” A few years ago finance houses were
booming in Nigeria, new banks were being opened and people were excited. Then beloved brothers
started carrying God’s resources to hide in them. If they knew that mischief would fall on them I
know they would not have done it. Those things are gone, they are lost and there is nothing you
can do about it. Kingdom blessing is not meant to be hidden.
Every available opportunity that will come your way this year, is to tell the news to every man, every
woman God brings your way. Tell the news. How it is going to change their destiny is not even your
problem because God has already done a work. We ought to move and not tarry for the days are
evil. God has pushed away and held down the hands of the enemy that we may quickly do the work.
If we tarry, some mischief looms over the top of our heads. Therefore come, arise, go and tell it.
Those that will be sceptical to your message God will still demonstrate His glory; they will still see
the power of God break forth, but we must go and tell it. There was urgency with the lepers’
response. They said, “if we tarry till the morning light.” There is a time limit for us to carry out this
work. We live at a time when men’s ears are itching and they are piling up teachers for themselves,
who tell them what they want to hear. The Bible says a time will come when they will not be able
to endure sound doctrine. Right now those itching ears have multiplied, with their teachers. There
are all kinds of teachers and all kinds of fellowships now. If we tarry some mischief will come upon
us. So arise!

26/08/2016

WHERE TO FOCUS IS JESUS

There are situations that threaten to wreck your life as
a person, the church, the Body of Christ or the nation.
For God to intervene, He needs a man who is willing to
arise, who is willing to risk his life. Those great things
and eternal things that took place in the past had
always taken place because someone somewhere
decided to believe God, and to arise. Most men that God
ever used were not men that had great resources in
themselves. But there is one thing they did: they
believed God and arose. They refused to sit where the
devil was putting them. They refused to agree to dwell
in the place of their predicament.
“And there were four leprous men at the entering in of
the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here
until we die? If we say, We will enter into the city, then
the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if
we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and
let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us
alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of
the Syrians...”
2 Kings 7:3-5 KJV
They arose and God stood with them.
One of the things that keep men lower than what God
wants them to be is the fear of death, the fear of
failure, the fear of losing out, the fear of the unknown,
the fear of the unfamiliar ground. Any man that is not
willing to take a step of faith will never experience divine
intervention. A step of faith is often a step of risk. Many
times your intellect, your human sense tells you that
what you are doing is unreasonable and very risky.
People who discover the ability and the provision of God
for their lives were those that were not going to allow
themselves to be glued to their familiar experiences.
They were men who were willing to say, “Lord, if it is
you I will come.”
Peter took such a step of faith in Matthew 14:24-33.
The Bible says they were in the boat and a great storm
was blowing and there was nothing they could do to
calm the storm. They tried all their expertise and some
of them must have felt that the end had come. Even if
you know how to swim, how do you swim in turbulent
water, in a stormy and confused situation? Suddenly
that night, the Lord Jesus began to walk on the water
towards them. As He was approaching them, they began
to fear again, thinking He was a ghost. But the Lord
Jesus said, “Be of good cheer, it is I.”
Peter, right inside that confusion, spoke, “Lord, if it be
Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the water.” Thomas
Didymus must have been shivering and saying “Peter,
Peter, Peter you are too daring. You like to take useless
and unreasonable risks. We said that thing that is
coming is a ghost; you want to compare yourself with a
ghost? And you are married; you want to die for
nothing? Andrew must have said, “Peter, we are from
the same family; what do you want me to go and tell
our father at home?” But Peter said, “If it is you bid me
to come.” The Master said, ‘Come’. As long as it was
the Master who told Peter to come, Peter had every
reason to arise, to arise from that confusion, from that
gloom, to arise from that storm and to step out in faith.
Others were calling, others were shivering, some were
saying their last prayer because they knew that any
moment, they could perish. But Peter seemed to have
said, “even if that boat is going to capsize, it is not
going to meet me there. Since the Master says, come, I
will go to meet Him.”
The man took the first step, not on a bridge and
remembers that by the time he arose, the storm had not
stopped. The wind was still blowing. But he heard only
one word from the mouth of the Master, which kept him
going: that word, “come.” Others might be shouting
'Peter! Peter!! Peter!!!' Peter could have said, “Leave me
alone. The Master has said 'come' and I go to meet
Him.” He took the second; the third step and he did not
sink because he was acting on the word from the
Master. He must have been repeating that word in his
heart, and as he was doing that he was focusing on
Jesus. As long as he focused on what the Master said,
even if the storm became twenty times stronger and the
wind more boisterous, it could not overcome the word
of command from the Master.
The moment you learn to walk by the word of God and
not by your feelings, not by environmental conditions,
you are bound to prevail. Others must have wished they
followed Peter when they saw the confidence with which
he went especially as the storm had not subsided in the
boat. But when Peter decided no more to look at the
Master, the Author and the Finisher of our faith, he
began to sink.
A great lesson God must teach us is never to shift our
focus from Jesus as soon as we take steps to arise
from our present situation. One thing is certain: that we
can also arise. We can refuse to sit here yet, without
being presumptuous. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit
will particularly speak to your heart. He will speak to
your spirit and cause you personally to arise. As you
arise things will change concerning you, your family,
your business, the work of God, the Body of Christ and
concerning our nation in the name of Jesus Christ

19/08/2016

"WHERE ARE MY STORING MY GOODS"

“And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the
inheritance with me.”
Luke 12:13 KJV
Jesus’ response to this man’s simple request remains yet a matter on my heart to keep on
chewing. That my Master did not just say to the man, “sorry I cannot interfere in your family
conflict; but went ahead to call for caution: “Take Heed and Beware…” , and to illustrate His
response with a parable, makes the matter one that I cannot also easily dismissed.
“And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth
plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where
to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and
there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.”
Luke 12:16-18 KJV
“What shall I do? Because I have no room to bestow my fruits.” The rich man’s problem was where
to store his goods. He thought and analyzed his difficulty: finally, he came to a conclusion. I
wonder what my conclusion would have been. You too, what conclusion would you have reached in
your case? It is this quiet conclusion that usually forms the basis of the outward manifestations of
our action. This quiet conclusion normally determines our choice, our focus and our direction in life.
The rich man in the Bible said, “This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there
will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.” In barns and not in people; not in heaven but in barns.
That barn could mean anything. For some, civilization will not allow them to start building barns so
they keep their goods in banks. Some would however say, Bank? No, I don’t like banks. Their
interest is too small and there could be inflation. I want to put my goods in shares, so that even in
ten years’ time, when I would have retired, when the economy would have changed, that is the solid
quiet money that would be coming in. I would just relax, sit down and cross my legs and enjoy
myself while money comes in. So, the barns could be shares, banks or property development or it
could be investing in solid minerals. Some will look for asset that appreciates with years. Some will
say, “Let’s invest in a name. Let’s buy that company off the market, so that we can collect their
name.” That name could be a barn.
Where am I investing my life? Where am I investing my intelligent and my ability? I need to find out
what the pursuit of my life is. Do I quietly desire to possess all that I will need tomorrow, today so
that I can secure my future?
Look at what the man said,
“I will say to my soul, Soul…”
When we read it, it appears as if it is not real. Excuse me; don’t you think it is real? Don’t you think
these are the kinds of thoughts that have crossed our minds many times? Several things that many
of us have done are along this line. That is why you will hear some people say, “…if the government
decides to be foolish, I will never be poor again.” The reason is because they believed they have
secured their future and so nothing can shake them.
“I will say to my soul: enough of running around. Thou hast much goods laid up for many years,”
the man seem to say. Let’s face this fact frankly; how many people are not working in order to
have something laid up for many years? What actually is the issue pushing many people up and
down? Is it not the desire to have some certain things laid up for many years? As I say this you
may be tempted to think that it applies to businessmen only; so you may excuse yourself because
you are not a business man. Even you that is a civil servant, what is the reason why you have not
resigned despite your complains against how the government is treating workers? What is your
thought? Are you not probably saying, quietly in your heart, “Let me just clock thirty years in service
so that my gratuity – the reward of working for many years - will increase?”
Why do even Pastors sit tight over their churches, inscribing their names, the names of their wives
and their children on the properties- the corporate properties of the church? It is because of the fear
of tomorrow. They are quietly thinking, how can I lay my life down in a ministry like this and
somebody will just come tomorrow and push me out and my children will have nothing. No! Let’s
entrench my name in it. This is the same conclusion, they are but goods laid up for many years.
It is for this reason? Jesus said, “beware of covetousness”. It is capable of killing one. It can
make one lose one soul and end up in hell where you never planned. The weight of these
instructions is enough to again cause my heart to bow in God’s presence, seeking His divine
enablement to escape this hidden pit that may have swallowed many who went ahead of me. None
of them ever hoped to end their pilgrim journey where and how they ended but covetousness, who
never always come as such, overtook them when they least expected.
Oh dear Lord, please give me light that I may correctly evaluate where I conclude to bestow my
fruits. Save me from the deceptiveness of today’s barns. Cause me to know that the fruits coming
out of the ground of my life are not really mind but yours, and that I am but a mere steward over
all that comes into my hands.
Lives are better place to bestow my fruits than in barns, no matter what such barns may be! This is
my conclusion!!

19/08/2016

WHY JESUS DELAYED

While His love for His Church (Lazarus) is not in doubt,
His action raised a conflict - in several hearts. This is
probably because we cannot see as He sees. Our own
understanding of love and care is from a different lens
other than His own.
“So when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two
more days in the place where He was. Then after this
He said to the disciples, “let us go to Judea again."
John 11:6-7 NKJV
This is very confusing, more so that the scripture
pointed out that “So when He heard that he was sick,”
it was not deliberate. It was not because He was
ignorant of Lazarus' sickness nor the pains and the
decay that crept all over him... He knew that Lazarus
was facing dark moments, yet He stayed two more days
in the place where He was... He stayed put. He
remained unmoved and unnerved about the urgent
message sent to Him by sisters Mary and Martha whom
He also loved. Isn't it a conflict in our hearts that we
have prayed and fasted for the LORD to intervene in the
decaying situation of the Church - in several lands -
most especially in Europe, yet He stayed away? He kept
facing other directions, as it were. It is painful that
many intercessors cried to the LORD at the very
beginning of the sickness and He stayed away until this
moment when everything is dead and stinking. Some
wept sore, looking on the way, if He would suddenly
appear... He did not come until they also fell asleep.
Others got frustrated and began to deny the
genuineness of His love. They became embittered
against the LORD and the Word of His promise. We
have had many questions, many dark moments, many
doubts; simply because of His delay. Many of us have
had to review our theology and have quietly deleted any
hope of revival. We went into the theory of
“dispensationalism” and fatalism. We concluded that
this is the apostasy prophesied about. Others felt, God
is not going to revive these old Churches anymore; let
us better begin new ones. All of these are because we
did not see as He sees. His thoughts are not our
thoughts. His ways are not our ways. We see dimly, He
knows the end from the beginning. Look at what he saw
concerning this situation, and what He still says about
His church even today.
“When Jesus heard that, He said, This sickness is not
unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of
God may be glorified through it."
John 11:4 NKJV
This sickness is not unto death! And that is the verdict
from Him who Himself is the Resurrection and the Life.
He calls the things that are not as though they were. He
speaks to wombs that were long barren and there
springs forth life. It is enough to see His own
perspective. This sickness that has come upon us ( and
upon His Church severally) is not unto death -
Modernism, Secularism, Pluralism, Humanism, Socialism,
Communism, Hinduism and all the 'isms' you can coin
out that have come like germs and infections against
the Church in our time. They are biting so hard. Some
have even gone so deep into the fabrics of the church
leadership, attacking her from her very roots. Every
passing day it seems this sickness will finish Christ's
Church. But, let me re-echo this again as I hear my
LORD declare very firmly: “This sickness is not unto
death.” “The gates of hell shall not prevail against the
Church.” He is coming for a victorious and glorious
Church, without spot or wrinkle.
“...But for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be
glorified through it.”
This deadness is not the end of the story. There is a
glory coming forth: the glory of God in our uttermost
weakness. Roses come forth brightly out of thorns.
Light shines brightest in the darkest darkness. Even in
this complicated situation all over the world, the Son of
God will be glorified.
First, we must note that this was His first comment as
He heard that Lazarus was sick. He saw the end from
the beginning. The end of the matter is what matters
most...and it is that the Son of God will be glorified
through it. Even as we follow the LORD Jesus into the
ministry of waking up His friend Lazarus, we must do
so with our eyes and our hearts fixed on the end he has
in mind. Whatever intervening conflicts we find;
whatever stiffness has come upon His Body; whatever
disintegration has taken place is not the end of the
story. We must learn to see as He sees, so we can walk
along with Him as calmly as He would. Though we
would love to rush on to the scene and perform some
acrobatics... He takes firm steps in divine timing, with
confident knowledge of the end before it all began. It is
wonderful to gain a deep insight into the heart of the
LORD. The Church is not going to die out... She will
spring forth again and the Son of God will be glorified
on earth, even through the Church.
“...That the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
This “Lazarus” (the church) must still play a key role in
bringing glory to the Son of God. She would silence the
gainsayers and subdue the principalities, while by her
and through her “the Son” shall be glorified.
Let this settle in your heart, my beloved brother and
sister. Those who labour in God's vineyard must do so
with this assurance. There is going to be a revival: a
rising up; a breaking forth from the tomb; a rolling away
of stones and tearing away of grave clothes... a
gathering of men and women into the kingdom, because
of the revival of this “Lazarus” - the Church. Even if
“Jesus stayed two more days in the place where He
was,” let us just follow Him confidently. Wherever He
goes now and whatever He goes back to Judea to do,
let us follow Him... this is the point of trial for several
of us... can we follow Him back into Judea again... can
we endure staying while He stays two more days at the
same spot, as if he is stagnant? Can we endure a
seeming dryness in ministry while we watch our
“Lazarus”- friend and brother die? We may be tempted
to rush and try to do some more massaging, just to
satisfy our emotions that we are doing something. Yet,
our only wisdom is to stay where He stays, to go to any
Judea He wishes to go back into until He is ready to go
and wake up His friend.
I pray that henceforth, I will only walk in step with Him.
Even if I go ahead of Him, I can only shake the dead
body and do no more... His coming is the answer to
this death... He knows what to do and when to do it.

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