RISE, TAKE-UP YOUR BED AND WALK
JOHN 5:8
What those it means to rise? it means to move from a lower position to a higher one; come or go up; it means get up from lying, sitting, or kneeling; to increase in number, size, amount or quality; an upward movement; an instance of becoming higher; to assume an upright position.
Before you can ask someone to rise up; it means the person has fallen down or lying down or sitting down or kneeling.
Many youth have lose the track of God and destiny running after shadow and vanity of life. They have been encaged and camped in the destination of ruins beacause of vanity. Many have sold their destiny to Satan through worldliness, living, eating, walking and behaving like unbelievers, hardly will you distinguish a believer youth from unbelievers. Worldliness has enter the church through the youth by introducing the things of the world into the house of God; dressing in anungodly way; changing the world music into gospel music no more inspirational and spirit filled songs again in this generation of viper, boaster, lovers of money than God. They have turn church to party center, where they have to showcase their best dress, hair do and the latest dancing steps in the world; it is good to dress well and look attractive but in a modest apparel with moderation not half naked and not covering of hair to church. This has brought youth, men and women into lying state of confusion and murmuring.
THINGS THAT CAN MAKE A MAN TO BE IN A LYING, SITTING OR KNEELING POSITION
- Disobedient to God words
- worldliness
- unholy
- fornication
- perverseness
- lovers of pleasure than lovers of God
- pride
- perilious time
- impatience
THINGS THAT CAN RISE A MAN FROM LYING, SITTING AND KNEELING POSITION
- obedience
- holiness and righteousness
- praying and fasting
- evangelism
- daily study of bible and christian literatures e.t.c
Arise, oh people of God, wake up from your slumber, think of what you can do for God; seeking first his kingdom now that you have everything and strength it takes.
TAKE UP THY BED
Gather your pieces, join them together and start something for God today. You have something in you that the world needs to buy; that needs to change their testimony and destiny for good. Their is a giant in you that needs to awake to deliever some destiny and life from captivity. Their is an army of war in you that needs to fight for others victory and your own freedom.
Take uo thy bed; pick up your life from where you are. you can still become what God wants you to be. Arise, oh brethren; you are not finished yet; those that are finished are in the grave. forgive yourself, stop complainng that there is no body to help you; stop murmuring that you did not have money, what is left in you is more than enough for you to be grate and known through out the world.. break up your fallow ground; ready to till your ground now; God is ready to rain righteousness upon you. sow that last seed that you have (sow yourself; your life; your passion). God will bring out abundance in it and you will reap in mercy during the time of harvest.
WALK
Now that God has renew his hope in you; now that you have retrace your path back to God and have risen from that slumbering, lying and sitting position don't stay in remain idle, thinking of what to do. start something now: that your social media turn it to social evangelism media, preaching the word of God with it; edifying sould with the word of God through that. Join a department or group in your church, if you dont have a church find a bible believing church. Open a blog site for teaching and evangelism. Impart your talent in other people, intercede for ministers and missionaries on field. you dont have to remain stagnant at a point.
OH YOUTH, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, ARISE. THIS IS YOUR TIME
WRITTEN BY: PST IBRAHIM BABATUNDE B.
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