26 November 2013

To Pray or To Conquer

Prayer is a great method God has placed for us to submit our supplications before Him and to receive our needs. But prayer cannot give answer for all our needs because there are also things God want us to obtain by conquering.

It's quite easy to receive things by prayer because it is like spoon feeding and it's quite difficult to receive things by conquering because we need fight using our power and strength to conquer something. Learning to achieve things by prayer increase our faith, but learning to achieve things by conquering make us warriors. 

After all it's all a part of training by God. A perfect example for this is God leading the Israelites from Egypt. To lead the Israelites from Egypt, God heard their prayer. But in order to acquire the promised land, God wanted Israelites not to pray, but to conquer.

Lack of wisdom and understanding sometimes prevent people of God from realizing when to pray and when to conquer. Basically in order to receive things from God we need to pray. It is simply because it is not practical to conquer and achieve something from God like what Jacob did. Also our God is so good and gracious to answers to those who ask Him. It is clear from the words of Jesus, Matthew 7:11 "how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

But what about the things which is not under the superior control of God or in other words things God has released or given permission to us to go and get by conquering. A perfect example for this is Israelites conquering their promised land, given/released by God for them by war.

Likewise today God has given the permission and authority to conquer our rights, blessings, freedom and healings from all rulers, authority, power and dominion, of this dark world. By the way, the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Our weapons are,
Prayer: To pray and pray until you receive it.

Word of God: Use the word of God to pray and command until you receive the answer.

Name of Jesus Christ: Command in the name of Jesus Christ for your need to be released, to remove everything that is blocking your blessing and to change the adverse situations.

Proclaim: Proclaim to yourselves, others, air, situations, angels and devil what you believe with boldness.

Believe: Believe and believe that all the activities you do by faith will change the situations and hold on to what you believe and proclaim even on adverse situations.

Never Give Up: If you decided to receive something by conquering, never ever give up. Go forth until you receive it.

14 November 2013

Do Not Imagine God

What is wrong with Imagining God?

It's quite human and natural to imagine things which we know and don't know. There are only few things which human beings cannot imagine, like the biggest number, the size of universe, etc. But there is only one thing man can never imagine. It's no one else other than Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of everything in the universe. 

Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God. An after effect of imagining God is why we can see today god limited to papers and metals as idols. Limiting God, the creator of whole universe, by creating any idols and thinking that an idol we create represent God on earth is utter foolishness. It's not a sin to think about imagining God. But it is foolishness as well as sin to imagine and conclude that this is God because God is ineffable. Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God.God is too great and too extreme to be imagined. The imagination of all human beings combined and the combination of all super computers ever made are not necessary to came to a conclusion after imagining God.

According to me, imagining God is an example for the limitation of thinking ability of human beings. They are putting limits to their own imagination and their imagination and maturity has not grown enough to realize that God is ineffable. A perfect example is that if we ask children of different ages or same children at different ages, 'what is the highest number?' Small children say 10 and little more big children say 100 and then 1000 etc. That is what they can imagine according to their age. It will take a while for them to be grown up and realize that actually there is nothing like a highest number because numbers are infinite. Similar to that, those who imagine and conclude that this is God or that is God are setting limitation to God by themselves.

This is why bible teach us to call upon the name of our LORD. It's not asking us to imagine God. Also bible makes it very clear that, God is Spirit and the creature cannot create back the creator. Wherever in bible, someone had an encounter with God, they are realizing themselves that God is ineffable and inexpressible. And what they witness as they have seen God is just a part of what God reveal to themselves, because no human can stay alive after seeing God and bible says no one has ever seen God as He is. When we pray, praise and worship God, all God is asking us to do is to do it in the name of God. LORD(also translated as Jehovah, Yah, YHWH) is His name. And other than Yesuva(Familiar as Jesus Christ), for our salvation, there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. In the period of New Testament, we have to approach Father God Yahweh in the name of Son of God Yesuva.