GOD'S SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES
PART 1
Psalms 89:20, Deuteronomy 7:6
System refers to a set of principles or procedures according to which something is done, an organized scheme or method, while structures refers to pattern set in place for doing a particular thing in order to achieve a certain kind of result.
Men are God's system. Just as the devil creates systems and structures through men, God too set up systems and structures through men.
When God wants to get something done on earth, He looks for men who will coperate with Him to birth His purposes on earth.
He looks for only one man or a nation or a people and use them as His system for getting that dimension of HIM across to every other people. Such people or nation or group of people are called God's system.
A man can be God's system for faith such that God can say if you want to understand faith study this man. If you want to understand commanding power study this personality.
Oral Roberts was God's system for healing in his days. You want to learn how God's power heals, then you must study his ministry.
If you want to study encounter with God, study Jacob, if it is intimacy study Enoch. If it is patience and perseverance study Noah and Abraham.
For ministry, relationships, marriage, raising children, disciplship and mentoring, finances, sex, politics, master and subordinates relationships, Goverment and citizens.
God has in men systems that he can refer us to to study in order to understand how these things could be achieved or done God's way.
When we study Bible like this, that is by studying men that God has dealings with in different aspects of life, it makes reading the bible a lot more interesting and our growth very constructive.
Say for example in a new month like this God can say I want to teach you on patience.
You might have been doing well working by faith but because you are not yet seeing the answer, you are already getting weary.
So the Holy Spirit can say, for the month of June we will be dealing with patience as an inherent part of faith.
And then He tells you to study Noah, Abraham and Job. Your entire Bible study for the next 6months can be on these three men.
But by the time you are done studying these men, you have recived an impartation of patience such that you tell God even if it takes longer, I am ready to wait.
Like Job you can say all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come because you have been immersed in a baptism of patience from studying the lives of these three men for six months.
These men that God refered you to are His system for faith and patience and there is no way you will understudy them that something will not drop into your spirit.
Such men are not only in the Bible, we have men who lived or is living in our day that are God's system on earth that God can point us to study their life and walk with Him.
Because by reason of His dealings in their life He brought out a specific testimony from each of their lives.
For some it could be contentment in ministry, for another it could be walking in the blessings of the Lord.
For another it could be holiness while yet for another it could be PRAYER or healing or Deliverance e.t.c.
When you sum up their entire life it is just one thing: Prayer or Faith or Holiness or Evangelism or Healing or Deliverance or Wealth and prosperity.
Such men and women are called God's systems. They introduce or re-introduce a dimension of God that has not yet been revealed or has been lost back to a generation.
These men are not only Men and women of God. Sometimes God uses day to day people that are close to us to teach us vital lessons of life, not as God's systems now, but as a way of training and preparing us for our place in life and destiny.
A man or woman of God can be too far away for us to study their lives in detail, so God can say for example of Administration and Management study your boss.
She is a woman with five kids yet she is the first to get to work. She is so organized ans mericulous that no detail is left out when she is making plans for the company.
She may not be a very good example for you to emulate for spirituality but a perfect example to study for administration and Management.
For discipline, Gid can say study your Father and for raising godly children study your Grandmother.
Where the problem often arise many times is that as we study these men we study other things too that God doesn't want us to imbibe into our own lives.
We see their shortcomings, their weaknesses, their failures and imperfections and if we don't know how to separate the precious from the vile we swallow every thing hook line and sinker.
Your Father may be a perfect example of Administration and Management but a very bad example of a husband.
Your boss may be just what you need to study for excellence but when it comes to marriage, he is a bad example.
We must learn to separate the precious and the vile and keep to what God asks us to study in the life of a particular person.
If it is discipline, stick to discipline, don't also adopt that personality for marriage or for spirituality if they fall short in those areas.
This does not only apply to secular people, it applies also to spiritual people in the Bible as well as well as men and women of God in our days.
David was an excellent model when it comes to leadership and love for God, but a bad example when it comes to marriage.
So, when you study David you must emulate his leadership style but not his marital life style.
His marital life can be an example of what you must avoid in your own marriage.
So when you study people study to know what to emulate and what not to emulate.
Unfortunately sometimes what makes us strong in one area is also what makes us weak in another area, not everytime but sometimes.
But with the help of the Holy Spirit, He brings us into balance. And with the help of teachings like this it helps us to stay balanced.
This is why in all our studies, whether study of scriptures or men we must never leave the Holy Spirit behind, otherwise we get into blind followership and and up as a copy of another person's life and destiny instead of the original that God intended us to be.
Looking up to a personality as an example of faith or God's system for long life or Holiness is not intended to make us another copy of that person but to help us become the original that God intends for us to be.
Nobody grows and become all that God intends for him or her to be in life and destiny in isolation, we need others, their experiences with God, their faith, their stories, their boldness, their mistakes and fears as well as their weaknesses to help us all the way.
This is why the Bible say we should follow them who through faith and patience have obtained the promise, Hebrews 6:12.
Somewhere else it says whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, Hebrews 13:7.
In another place for an example of faith and how he blesses men, God commanded us to look up to Abraham and Sarah, Isaiah 51:1&2.
I remember when I started my walk with God and was learning how to pray. After I had prayed for 10mins it would look like 1hr.
Then one day I came across a book called "Tongues", written by Kenneth Hagin and how he experienced what I was experiencing in prayer.
I looked at where he started from and where he is now. You can imagine what that did to my faith.
I said if this happened to Kenneth Hagin and he is where he is today, then I am not doing too badly and I continued.
In my next post by God's grace I will continue from here.
Meanwhile, we are going to pray and ask God to show us specific examples both from the Bible and in real life that we can look up to for different aspects of our lives whether ministry, political career, family and marriage, academics, business e.t.c.
Ask the Lord to show you your specific model in the Bible, someone that your journey of life and destiny look like his or her own.
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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