Telescope of Faith: The Results are Coming (3)

Welcome to part 3 of this article. One problem some people have in their “faith walk” is that they are so preoccupied with what the witches and wizards, enemies of progress and satan and his agents are doing that they have no time to reflect on what God is doing for them.

In their mind and in their confession, they underestimate the power, greatness and love of God. In their despondency, they keep asking themselves: “Where are the results of my efforts? Where are the answers to my prayers?” The danger of despondency is that it renders people blind and so they can’t see what God has been doing and is doing for them. In that situation, they become despondent the more.

The solution to the problem and indeed all problems is to put your trust in God. The Book of Success, the Bible says: “Thou wilt keep Him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee” (Isaiah 26;3). If your mind is completely stayed on God, you will never be troubled by what your enemies are doing to you.

You can stay in the midst of adversity without being troubled. The secret is surrendering yourself to God. Focus your mind on the greatness, goodness, mercy, love and power of God. God is doing a lot of things for you. The reason you can’t see what God is doing for you is that you have sunk yourself into the sea of negativity.

Negativity is so destructive that some people who claim to know that the Everlasting Father, the Creator of heaven and earth is Supreme and there is nothing that is impossible with Him, still find it difficult trusting Him in times of trouble.

This, I believe, is the handiwork of satan. The aim of satan is to keep people in bondage and destroy them in the end. He does this by disconnecting them from their Source. Satan knows that as long as you remain connected to God your maker, he can never defeat you. Therefore, he uses problems to distract people from worshipping God.

Instead of staying connected to God, you become too preoccupied with the problems satan places on you. And this is what is defeating you. If your mind is not focused on God, but on problems, you would not be thinking of worshipping and thanking Him for what is He is doing in your life.

Anything that will cause you to doubt the power, greatness and love of God is not of God but of the devil. It doesn’t matter who or where the distraction is coming from. You have to take a stand and RESIST the devil.

One great assignment we should take very seriously in times of trouble is that we should practice taking our eyes off our troubles and focusing our mind on God and what He is doing for us.

In all things, we should learn to always give thanks to God, for it is His perfect will concerning us. Many people find it difficult to believe that the trouble they are passing through is God’s perfect will for them. The reason for this may not be far-fetched.

Over the years, they might have been holding the belief that as children of God, they ought not to have problems at all, and that any problem that will come their way, God will take it away. When these people encounter some problems, they become despondent and frustrated.

Only the truth can set these people free. In the first place, God doesn’t promise any person a trouble-free life. Jesus, the only begotten son of God, wasn’t exempted from troubles. He encountered rejection, was in constant confrontation with the hypocritical religious leaders, was betrayed and crucified; but He rose up from the dead.

Again Jesus didn’t promise a trouble-free life. Jesus said: “These things I have spoken unto you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

If you want to live a victorious life, you must jettison the erroneous belief that because you owe allegiance to God, you should not have a problem to contend with. Believe it or not, problem will come when it will come. “It is impossible that offence should not come.”

It is because there are problems that we are talking about victory over those problems. This is what CFVL (this blog) is preaching – VICTORY. If there are no problems, we would not be talking about victory. And victory is what God promises us: “For what soever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).

If, instead of focusing on victory, you keep whining and complaining, you will be displeasing God. For every problem you are passing through, you have a thousand and one reasons to thank God. But if you don’t have strong faith in God, you are not likely going to focus on what God is doing for you or thank Him for those.

Dear reader, NEVER ALLOW THE DEVIL TO BRING YOU TO A SITUATION WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE REASONS TO THANK GOD. If you are praising God for what He is doing in your life, He will be committed to do much more for you.

If you lose contact with God, you make yourself vulnerable to satan. Always stay connected to God. If you remain connected to God, there is no battle that comes your way that you cannot overcome.

The storm will come. Distraction will come. Your enemies will attack you. The devil and his cohorts will do anything they can to frustrate you. But because you remain connected to the Everlasting Father, they will never prevail over you.

There are battles we would have won easily, but because we fail to focus on God and what He is doing for us, we get defeated. Thankfully, we still have the opportunity of putting everything right. Downfall of a man is not the end of his life. The results and answers to your prayers will not come if you quit. You have to be up and running.

Complaint and excuses will not deliver to you the results and answers to your prayers. The only thing I know that can grant you the results and answers to your prayers is FAITH. “THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH.”

There will come easy times and hard times, rain and sunshine, comfort and discomfort, pleasure and displeasure, but if you hold unto your faith, you will prevail in the end. Arm yourself with the shield of faith which you will use to quench all the fiery darts of the devil. 

There is victory for you. Get up and fight today. Take up your telescope of faith and look. Can you see the results and answers to your prayers? If you can see them, they shall be yours.

SUBMIT YOURSELF TO GOD NOW AND RESIST THE DEVIL. He will flee and you will be victorious now and ever! Till I come your way soon, go and live victoriously!