Saturday, June 9, 2007

DON'T GIVE UP


For ye have need of patience that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry. (Heb 10:36)
A village pastor had two young boys as members of his little congregation who were very committed to the church and to their pastor. Because these young men loved their pastor, they spent most time with him doing the work of the church. Several times they heard their pastor pray out loud to God in frustration to send help to him due to the heavy financial burden he had incurred many times. It was as though his prayer hit the roof and fell back on the pastor’s head.Not long enough after then, the young boys felt restlessness to relocate to the city, leaving their pastor behind. Before leaving they told their pastor that when God blesses them they would come back and help him. The news of their decision to relocate had a drastic effect on the already frustrated village pastor who had spent endless weeks and months fasting and praying for God to send him helpers to carry on with the work. The pastor of the village church concluded that his prayers were not answered and began to contemplate on closing down the village church.

The two young men soon fond themselves in the city and settled down to further their pursuit. Through some miraculous intervention they got a breakthrough and traveled abroad within a short time they ran into a lot of money. They decided to visit him in Johannesburg for the Christmas.Just before leaving overseas for home they remembers their poor village pastor back at home and decided to buy a bus for other church and a personal car for the pastor and reserved some money to help build a befitting church edifice for worship. Back at home the village pastor woke up one morning and decides to leave his village church and relocate to another city and pick up a job. While leaving, he left no forwarding address. He abandoned his parishioners and decided to take his destiny into his own hands. Not long after his disappearance the two young men arrived at the village with so much excitement to lift their pastor’s status only to find that the pastor had left. They searched and searched and in frustration gave all they brought o another village pastor who had remained steadfast and patient for Gods intervention in his life.My dear reader I believe you have tried and made all efforts to practice God‘s word with the hope that things will turn around. In the name of Jesus, I beg you don’t give up even when things do not seem to change in the immediate now. The word of god says “for ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while and he that will come will come and will not arty. This period that looks like heaven is silent, God is working out something new for you. From the day you sowed the seed of prayer in the ground like a plant some things began to happen. Outwardly, nothing seem to be happening but patience and time will only reveal a manifestation of a plant shrouding out of the hard ground in a matter of weeks or months and sometimes years, you will enjoy the fruit of your seed. Keep sowing seeds of money, fasting, confession of God’s words concerning your life and as you do so add patience.I pray for you right now, from the crown of your head to the very soles of your feet be healed and be delivered, I pray for supernatural intervention off all sorts in your life in Jesus name.

Rev Frank Ogagba +27 83 480 7992; +27 11 643 5773
Ever-Increasing Faith Churches

88 Kotze Street Cnr Banket, Hillbrow

P. O. BOX 87433, Houghton 2041 Johannesburg South Africa

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