The Power Behind Your Visible Progress – How God Validates You For Progress – Part 2 – Pastor Odim Awa Odim: God will always want to authentic His call on our lives in this natural world, in preparation to the size of the assignment that we are carrying. He does this so that we will remain grounded, unmovable to the faith.
The Power behind your visible Progress- How God validates you for progress.(Part 2)
Psalms 115:14
[14]May the Lord give you increase more and more, You and your children.
The word validate, came from the word, valid, which also means justified, Brethren, it took the Lord to come to this natural world, to die and to ressurrect, to lay claims for our justification, in other words to validate us.
Romans 8:33-34
[33]Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
[34]Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
So, it is an abberation when the children of God seek validation from men, when, Jesus Christ has already endorsed us.
God will always want to authentic His call on our lives in this natural world, in preparation to the size of the assignment that we are carrying. He does this so that we will remain grounded, unmovable to the faith.
Psalms 105:17-22
[17]He sent a man before them— Joseph—who was sold as a slave.
[18]They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons.
[19]Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of the Lord tested him.
[20]The king sent and released him, The ruler of the people let him go free.
[21]He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all his possessions,
[22]To bind his princes at his pleasure, And teach his elders wisdom.
Joseph was a man that was carrying a great and divine assignment of preservation of the nation of Israel, the Lord spoke to Abraham about the captivity experience of the children of Israel.
Genesis 15:13
[13]Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
What is striking in this context from the scriptures, that we read above, about God, is that, He told Abraham about the event that will befall the children of Israel but not the process, He did not tell him about how they will enter into such situation that he narrated in the book of Genesis.
Child of God, the process is where the validation occurs.
Whatever that you have gone through or still going through is the Lord’s natural process for your manifestation.
Please kindly be aware that He has already laid claims for your spiritual Justification or validation, so that, you will make progress in this natural world, Jesus Christ took care of everything that has to do with the spiritual aspect for your destiny.
So whatever process that you find yourself, in this natural world, is the Lord, authenticating His mandate or plan on you.
Joseph was betrayed by His brothers, infact they almost killed him, before they sold him because of the assignment that he carried.
Genesis 37:18-28
[18]Now when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.
[19]Then they said to one another, “Look, this dreamer is coming!
[20]Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!”
[21]But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”
[22]And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.
[23]So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.
[24]Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
[25]And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
[26]So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
[27]Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers listened.
[28]Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
Child of God, you are carrying a divine assignment in your Spirit for your generation, No devil, can stop it, Jesus Christ has already laid claims for your validation, Praise God!
They did not succeed with Joseph, who is not of the everlasting covenant of the new testament, what made you think that they can succeed with you, who is a partaker of this everlasting covenant.
2 Peter 1:3-4
[3]as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
[4]by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Child of God, you ought to understand, that there are effectual promises that have been made in the time past by God, that you are here now to bring to pass or to fulfill. You are a divine project, you God’s building.Hallelujah!
Ephesians 2:10
[10]For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
How God Authenticates your validation .
The trying of your Faith.
Child of God, the times that we are faced with life’s challenges, does not signify that we are no longer under God’s plan, but, that is a sign of God’s Love in preparing us for a glorious future. Praise God!
Hebrews 12:6-11
[6]For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
[7]If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?
[8]But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
[9]Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
[10]For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.
[11]Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
So, Child of God, Joseph went through this spiritual evaluation, which represented the trial of his faith towards the only true God.
These painful situations he had to go through till when the Lord announced him and fulfilled His plans for him. Glory be to God!
2 Corinthians 4:17
[17]For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
Brethren, on this note you must understand that there is no visible Progress without a conquest.
In this scenario, Apostle Paul admonished the church to fight the good fight of faith.
1 Timothy 6:12
[12]Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
During the process of our natural validation, we are expected to go through with the virtue of patience and resilience, to come out from every situation triumphantly, Hallelujah.
How to maintain God’s Validation.
1.By trusting the Lord.
We must trust in the word of God, during the process, for divine direction.
Proverbs 3:5-6
[5]Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
[6]In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
By Remaining resilience with determined patience.
This virtue, child of God, you must embrace, so that your faith will be grounded in God’s love for your lifting.
Romans 5:3-5
[3]And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
[4]and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
[5]Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
By focusing only on the Lord.
We must maintain an uninterrupted attention to the will of God for our lives in prayer.
Matthew 6:10
[10]Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
Conclusion.
The knowledge of will of the father for His children is extreme and must be communicated effectively to His Children so that they can be grounded in faith.
Jesus Christ, birth, death and resurrection is the Father’s Love moves to assure us of His spiritual validation and endorsement.
So, when a child of God experiences challenges in this natural world, does not necessarily mean God has abandoned him, hates him, punishes him, for what he has done in the past, but it is a sign of God’s Love, authenticating you for the great and effectual promises over your life and destiny.
Child of God, trust in the Lord, when you go through the process, for you are carrying within you the seed for generational impact. Hallelujah!
