Why cant you try Him today
BY: Peter Qeko Jere
The Old Testament books of Exodus and Daniel have some of most interesting real stories with great lessons for Malawians today. These are stories that happened in the lives of real people who lived on this planet. The one unique character revealed in these books is that God almighty will do and use everything and anything at His disposal as God to intervene in the lives of His dear children.
To begin with, in the Old Testament book of Exodus we have two accounts that show how caring God is that he physically came down and intervene in the lives of His children in Egypt. In chapter 3:7-8, we see the children of God in Egypt where for 400 years they lived under the oppressive regime of Pharaoh. This was a situation where they lived and stayed as slaves, which mean that they had no rights whatsoever, and they followed every little instruction ordered by their Egyptian autocratic masters. However the bible says that time came when the oppression was too much for them and they cried and remembered the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In response to their cry, God remembered His dear children in Exodus 3:7-8 He said the following, “ I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptian and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey”.
Therefore, the four things that we need to know about God is that He firstly, sees every little thing done on the lives of His children (Saved). Secondly He hears His children when they are crying and He gets concern about their situation. Finally, He comes down to physically rescue them from whatever situation they be in. Now we need to know that whenever God comes down, the whole of heaven comes down with Him and this is no big joke. The later chapter of Exodus shows how God punished Pharaoh and the whole of Egypt just because He cares a lot about His children. He came down to intervene and He used every available means to rescue them. Thus there is a huge advantage of being a child of God saved by Christ precious blood because in difficult and painful times, you are more assured that there is God in heaven who can fights and intervenes for you.
As if this was no enough Exodus 14:13-22 gives us an account of what God did when His children came at the edge of the water of the Red Sea. After their victorious liberation and deliverance from Pharaoh, they later had the Red Sea to cross. When they came at the very edge of the Sea, God had no problem in reorganizing the Red Sea waters by ordering it to stop flowing for a while so that His children should cross peacefully. Upon the word of God something extraordinary happened, the kind of thing and event that baffled the mind all men. The water did not only stop but the bottom of it became dry and beautiful carpeted. In fact this was a VIP carpet from above. So they walked on a God made carpet with a wall of water to the right and left till they reach the other side of the sea. While God’s children walked safely to the other side, the Egyptians horses, chariot and horsemen were all swept into the sea when Moses commanded the water to go back to its original place. This is what God is able to do to protect His children. Those who give headache, pain and heart attacks to God’s children better read this writing on the wall. This is because no-one tortures oppress and cause pain in the lives of God’s children and go away with it unpunished. The principle is this: God will always fight for His children and we better be careful the way we treat and handle those we live, stay and work with so that we avoid facing the heavy penalty from the almighty.
In addition to the Exodus account, God is seen intervening mightily in the lives of His four Hebrew children in Babylon, Daniel, Shadreck, Mesheck and Abednego. In Daniel 3: 16-18, King Nebuchadnezzer ordered that the whole world should worship the golden image that he made. Anyone refusing to follow this order had to be thrown in the burning furnace so that they be burned and killed alive. But the three Jewish young men, Shadreck, Mesheck and Abednego were so courageous that they told Nebuchadnezzer and said, “we don not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it and he will rescue us from your hand. But if he does not we want you to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up”. What a bold and courageous statement of faith! God did rescue them and were not harmed by the fire. This means that God is able to rescue His children from whatever kind of fire and situations prepared by agents of darkness.
As if this was not enough Daniel 6: 1-28, we have an account of Daniel who was thrown in the den of lions by King Darius who later took over the kingdom from Nebechadnezzer and Belteshazzer. King Darius ordered that for 30 days people in his kingdom should pray and worship him. This was against the Jewish tradition of praying to Yahweh the God of heaven and earth. Daniel refused to obey this order and was thrown in the den of lion. However God intervened and did the following according to Daniel himself, “ My God sent his angel and he shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me because I was found innocent in his sight”. The angel of the Lord shut the mouth of the lions and they could not hurt Daniel. The God of heaven will do everything possible to protect his children.
The God who came down and destroyed the whole of Egypt, commanded the Red Sea waters from flowing, made Nebuchadnezzer’s burning furnace useless and finally shut the mouth of lions in the den of lions, is the same today, tomorrow and forever. He is still able to do abundantly in our lives and He will open up a way where there is no way. This God, Jehovah Elohe Abothekem (God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), will shut the mouths of the many lions around us and even making useless the many Nebuchadnezzer’s burning furnace prepared for our destruction.
BY: Peter Qeko Jere
The Old Testament books of Exodus and Daniel have some of most interesting real stories with great lessons for Malawians today. These are stories that happened in the lives of real people who lived on this planet. The one unique character revealed in these books is that God almighty will do and use everything and anything at His disposal as God to intervene in the lives of His dear children.
To begin with, in the Old Testament book of Exodus we have two accounts that show how caring God is that he physically came down and intervene in the lives of His children in Egypt. In chapter 3:7-8, we see the children of God in Egypt where for 400 years they lived under the oppressive regime of Pharaoh. This was a situation where they lived and stayed as slaves, which mean that they had no rights whatsoever, and they followed every little instruction ordered by their Egyptian autocratic masters. However the bible says that time came when the oppression was too much for them and they cried and remembered the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In response to their cry, God remembered His dear children in Exodus 3:7-8 He said the following, “ I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptian and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey”.
Therefore, the four things that we need to know about God is that He firstly, sees every little thing done on the lives of His children (Saved). Secondly He hears His children when they are crying and He gets concern about their situation. Finally, He comes down to physically rescue them from whatever situation they be in. Now we need to know that whenever God comes down, the whole of heaven comes down with Him and this is no big joke. The later chapter of Exodus shows how God punished Pharaoh and the whole of Egypt just because He cares a lot about His children. He came down to intervene and He used every available means to rescue them. Thus there is a huge advantage of being a child of God saved by Christ precious blood because in difficult and painful times, you are more assured that there is God in heaven who can fights and intervenes for you.
As if this was no enough Exodus 14:13-22 gives us an account of what God did when His children came at the edge of the water of the Red Sea. After their victorious liberation and deliverance from Pharaoh, they later had the Red Sea to cross. When they came at the very edge of the Sea, God had no problem in reorganizing the Red Sea waters by ordering it to stop flowing for a while so that His children should cross peacefully. Upon the word of God something extraordinary happened, the kind of thing and event that baffled the mind all men. The water did not only stop but the bottom of it became dry and beautiful carpeted. In fact this was a VIP carpet from above. So they walked on a God made carpet with a wall of water to the right and left till they reach the other side of the sea. While God’s children walked safely to the other side, the Egyptians horses, chariot and horsemen were all swept into the sea when Moses commanded the water to go back to its original place. This is what God is able to do to protect His children. Those who give headache, pain and heart attacks to God’s children better read this writing on the wall. This is because no-one tortures oppress and cause pain in the lives of God’s children and go away with it unpunished. The principle is this: God will always fight for His children and we better be careful the way we treat and handle those we live, stay and work with so that we avoid facing the heavy penalty from the almighty.
In addition to the Exodus account, God is seen intervening mightily in the lives of His four Hebrew children in Babylon, Daniel, Shadreck, Mesheck and Abednego. In Daniel 3: 16-18, King Nebuchadnezzer ordered that the whole world should worship the golden image that he made. Anyone refusing to follow this order had to be thrown in the burning furnace so that they be burned and killed alive. But the three Jewish young men, Shadreck, Mesheck and Abednego were so courageous that they told Nebuchadnezzer and said, “we don not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it and he will rescue us from your hand. But if he does not we want you to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up”. What a bold and courageous statement of faith! God did rescue them and were not harmed by the fire. This means that God is able to rescue His children from whatever kind of fire and situations prepared by agents of darkness.
As if this was not enough Daniel 6: 1-28, we have an account of Daniel who was thrown in the den of lions by King Darius who later took over the kingdom from Nebechadnezzer and Belteshazzer. King Darius ordered that for 30 days people in his kingdom should pray and worship him. This was against the Jewish tradition of praying to Yahweh the God of heaven and earth. Daniel refused to obey this order and was thrown in the den of lion. However God intervened and did the following according to Daniel himself, “ My God sent his angel and he shut the mouths of the lions and they have not hurt me because I was found innocent in his sight”. The angel of the Lord shut the mouth of the lions and they could not hurt Daniel. The God of heaven will do everything possible to protect his children.
The God who came down and destroyed the whole of Egypt, commanded the Red Sea waters from flowing, made Nebuchadnezzer’s burning furnace useless and finally shut the mouth of lions in the den of lions, is the same today, tomorrow and forever. He is still able to do abundantly in our lives and He will open up a way where there is no way. This God, Jehovah Elohe Abothekem (God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), will shut the mouths of the many lions around us and even making useless the many Nebuchadnezzer’s burning furnace prepared for our destruction.
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