21/05/2018
May Healing Service Message Summary
Preacher: Pastor Isaac V. Olori (The Int'l Director)
Lesson: Psalm 46:1-11
Topic: Be Still and know that I Am God
I don’t know whom you are or what you are passing through; the Lord God has a word for you today. He says in Psalms, “Be Still and know that I am God”. He is the Almighty; The I Am that I Am; The Omnipotent , Omniscience and Omnipresence God .
Who is God assuring in the passage?
Firstly, God is addressing His children: the Christians, particularly those who are facing one challenge or the other. And their sources of dependency for solutions have failed them. God is addressing you today, and still saying, “be still and know that I am God”.
Secondly, God is addressing those who are not His children: those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and personal Saviour. This is because if you have not accepted Him, you don’t have the right or authority to claim sonship. Hence, you are required to know Him as the God that can save.
Thirdly, God is addressing circumstances, powers and forces that are warring against His children, which restrain them from being what God wants them to be. Therefore, principalities and powers over your life shall be retrained, and their activities brought to a halt because God is an Omnipotent God.
What does it mean, “To Be Still”?
The word, ‘still’ is derived from the Hebrew word: raphe, which means to be weak; to relax or a state of lack of power. One thing you must know is that God will not take over your battle until you cease from fighting the battles by your own strength; until you recognize that He is the Almighty. Most of us are carrying our load of problems all by ourselves; always looking-out for, and relying on possible alternatives! There won’t be any need for God to help the strong and the mighties who rely on their abilities. But, when God sees the weak that depends on Him, He takes charge; He steps in and intervenes in situations that be. II Cor. 12:9, implies that God’s Strength is made perfect in our weaknesses. We have to see God as the only option for a way-out of every situation. To be, “still” implies to be weak to the point of identifying and depending on God as the one and only source of our strength and hope in life.
From the dictionary definition, “still” means as a state of tranquility. In 1Peter 5:7, God is asking us to cast all our cares/anxieties upon Him, because He is willing and able to bear them for us. Many of us are worried about so many things; we even grumble and say, “God has forgotten me”. But be reminded and reassured today that God is here to reach you at the very point of your needs, only be willing to submit wholly to Him with all your heart, so that He can take total control of you and your situation because He is a Sovereign God.
From age to age, God neither sleeps nor slumbers. We must refrain from being anxious. Our acts of anxieties go further to show that we rely more on ourselves and in other things, rather than on God alone. It is only when we are not anxious that we can be still and know that God is God indeed.
Why do we need to be still?
Deut. 4:7, Psalms 34:18 and Psalm 46:1 indicate that God is our help and refuge. He is ever near to all who call upon Him in truth. God is always available, all that we should do is to reach out to Him in absolute trust and dependency, and He will definitely show-up in our situations.
If you are not yielded to Him completely, you cannot experience His power in your life. We need also to give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word, in order to experience other levels of divine manifestations in our lives. The basis of all is that you must surrender your life to Jesus as your Lord and personal saviour.
