13/11/2025
We serve a mighty God who is zealous for His people.
Last Sunday, the Combined Churches of Whanganui gathered to witness a renewed zeal of the Lord for our city and nation. The message was clear ‘Don’t just wash and hang your nets. Launch out into the deep.’ The Lord is zealous for His people and is willing to fill us to the overflow. But it’s not by our might, nor by our power; but by His Spirit!
The word Zealous is the Hebrew word, “Qanah” which means ‘full of emotion; to be passionate; highly possessive of something’. Zeal helps us serve God and his people with passion and purpose. The Holy Spirit gives us this zeal to grow in the knowledge, humility and obedience to the will of God.
We see the zeal of Jesus when he overthrew the tables of buyers and sellers off from the Temple of the Lord, and proclaimed, that His house will be called a house of prayer (Matthew 21:13). The moment He cleansed the Temple of all worldliness; there was a release of healing for the blind and lame, and the praises of children filled the House with the shout of “Hosanna!”
The Church is called to be ‘the House of Prayer for all Nations’ (Isaiah 56:7). As we continue to fast and pray and seek the Lord, He promises to fill us with joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. We will witness an overflow of multitudes of people from every nation and the abundance of the end time Harvest.
The Lord who is zealous for His people would say, ‘For long my people have suffered, but now I will prosper them and make my name glorious. The Lord alone will supply and multiply the seed. His people will reap where they have not sown, and they will have abundance of grain and new wine. The zeal of the Lord will accomplish it.’
The Lord's promise in Zechariah 8:12, “The seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew – I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these.”
Jesus gives us his zeal, we read in Titus 2:13-14, “as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Shalom
Monica
