TEST OF FAITHFULNESS
LUKE 16:10
God is still in the business of looking for faithful men to commit things to, 2Timothy 2:2. Many wants God to commit big things into their hands before they will be faithful, John 2:23-25.
Our text says, "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much", Luke 16:10.
You will hear people say if God can just give me the anointing of this great man of God or the wealth of this successful business man I will go round the world preaching to every creature and healing all the sick or I will build a conglomerate of businesses all round the world.
Even in the secular world, in private organizations and in government establishments, people don't just become boss they rise to become one.
The Bible says for who has despised the days of small things? Zechariah 4:10.
The Lord started rejoicing immediately he saw the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel, when as yet not one stone has been laid upon another, just a plumb line only.
The test of faithfulness always start with something small and seemingly insignificant.
It can be your consistency in giving 50cents to an orphan as his money for snacks on a daily basis. You may not be able to pay his school fees or clothe him.
Something as small and inconsequential as that can be the key that will open the door to the financial anointing you have been asking God to give you.
It may be giving something small as your contribution in advancing the work of God on earth. It may not necessarily be money.
Beware of prayers that don't lead to what to do on your part, many times they don't deliver any result.
Your prayer must lead you to an instruction at some point, it may not be in the beginning but at some point.
I am happy when God gives me an instruction to obey in response to my prayer, that way I know He has committed Himself and something is about to happen.
It could be something as small as consistently washing the chairs in the church or toilet or a regular phone call to a new convert or a regular follow up of a new member and God will say I have found my servant....(put your name)....... and with my Holy oil I have anointed him.
You will want to say just for running after one unserious brother? Yes, just as small as that! God doesn't see things the way we see them, 1 Samuel 16:7.
He is running after one unserious brother with all his heart and God is watching and saying if I give him 1000 brothers that is the same way he will run after them with all his heart and resources.
The time when God finds His men is not when they are doing big things for the kingdom.
He found them when he gave them seemingly inconsequential and irrelevant things to do and they remain faithful to it.
Gordon Lindsay was faithful in documenting and publishing the healings that was taking place in William Branham's meetings and in the healing revival of that time.
In the process of doing that, the healing anointing came upon him too. Faithfulness made him a partaker of that grace and delivered his portion unto him.
What many don't realize is that we don't get result by working for them God is the one that gives results.
He said in Psalm 2:8, "Ask of me and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance and the innermost part of the earth for your possession". When we are faithful, God then gives us results.
Bill Johnson said when we are faithful in stewarding the promise of God then He brings us into the realm of anointing associated with that promise.
Who would have known there was a time, the highly anointed man of God, Apostle Joshua Selman was randomly sending salvation messages to people. He would just cook up a number and send salvation message to them on his phone. Nobody knew him that time, but God was watching.
If you happen to be his friend that time, you would have laughed at him and call what he was doing foolish, not knowing that he is qualifying himself to enter into greater levels of the anointing through faithfulness.
When God found David, it was not in Saul's palace or on the battle field with Goliath. He found him in the bush when as yet not one person has taken notice of him or what he was doing.
Right there in the bush God was saying I have found my next king who will sherpherd my people according to the integrity of his heart and the skillfulness of his hands, Psalm 78:72.
At that time David has not yet led one person not to talk of an entire nation. At that time, Samuel did not even know David, not to talk of anointing him, 1Samuel 16:1.
The time of consistently going for hospital evangelism and nobody was getting healed or saved but you kept going because it was an instruction from the Lord.
You thought nothing is happening but you kept going because you don't want to disobey Him.
A lot is happening actually because you are being made partakers of His suffering and you are becoming comformable unto His death, so that you can qualify to carry the power of His resurrection, Phillipians 3:10.
God is weaning you from being result and accolade driven to becoming driven by obedience and pleasing Him.
I remember a time when the people that the Lord gave me to disciple were not doing well and it looked as if I was just wasting my time on them.
One day, I was praying, asking the Lord to take away time wasters from my life and bring builders. But the Lord said to me that those that I am calling time wasters are actually my builders.
I will continue from here in my next post.
Salvation is found in none else, for there is no name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved, except the name of Jesus.
You may be reading this post and you have not yet given your life to Jesus. This is another opportunity for you to make that decision for Jesus by saying this prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus, I love You with all my heart. I believe that You are the Son of God that died and she'd His blood for my sins. Today, I receive Your life and I declare that I am Yours.
Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
SALVATION PRAYER
Anything short of you being born again and living a life of holiness and purity hurt Jesus so much. But you can make things right here and now by saying this simple prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus I come to you today. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. I repent of all my sins and I forsake them. Jesus, I invite you into my life, be my Lord, be my Saviour.
Wash me by your precious blood, forgive my sins and write my name in the book of life. From this day, I promise to follow you all the rest of my life. Help me Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
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