What to do when in tight corner (2)
By Patrick Enilama [pastorpatrick@sunnewsonline.com]
Sunday,
July 15, 2007
“How Forcible are right words”. —Job 6:25
“Whatever
he said unto you, do it”. —John 2:5
Do you pick a phone call
that is not dialed? Do you open a door that is not knocked at? When you are in
a fix, ask God what step to take. That is one way to enforce a change of story.
Do not settle for the condition you are presently facing. It is not your portion.
You must build up a reaction that will trigger revelation for the right solution.
You must wake up. Ask and do what the word says and you will be off your messy
state.
Daniel and co were to be executed along with other astrologers for
the latter’s inability to tell the king the meaning of his dream. The king
had a dream, he had forgotten and needed his magicians to reveal his dream. They
could not.
Daniel took the bull by the horn. He decided to do something. He
took the matter to God. He asked genuine questions. The Lord is waiting for you
to call upon him for an answer to your pressing problems.
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not”. Jer. 33: 3
“The Chaldean astrologers had said: “There
is not a man upon the earth that can shew the Kings’s matter: therefore
there is no king, Lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician or astrologer
or chaldean.
“And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there
is none other that can shew it before the King except the gods whose dwelling
is not with flesh”. Dan 2:10-11
Daniel decided to take the case to
the court of the most High God whose “dwelling is not with flesh”
God is a spirit and they that are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
Ask
God sincere question whenever you are in a fix. Daniel sought God for an answer
to his problem. “Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known
to his companions, that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning
the secret” that Daniel and his fellow should not perish with the rest of
the wisemen of Babylon.
“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel
in a night vision.
Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Blessed be the name
of God for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his.
And he changeth the
times and the seasons, he removeth Kings and setteth up kings, he giveth wisdom
unto the wise, and knowledge to them that have no understanding. He revealeth
the deep things. He knoweth what is in the darkness and light dwelleth unto him.
“I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given
me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee,
for thou has now made known unto us the kings matter.
“Therefore
Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the King had ordained to destroy the wise men
of Babylon. He went and said thus unto him;
Destroy not the wisemen of Babylon.
Bring me in before the king and I will shew unto the king the interpretation”
Dan. 2: 16-24
God is waiting for you to ask him for an answer/way forward.
Do not sit and brood over your problem. Enforce a change of story.