FINISHING STRONG AND WELL

Post date: Aug 31, 2012 7:15:26 AM

God’s mandate on you is never to fail, but to finish strong and well. You have begun the race well through your dreams, visions, and desires, and by God’s unfailing grace and love, you will finish well and strong. There may be some pertinent questions your parents, family members, friends and colleagues are asking you, and you are asking yourself, but despite the questions, despite the people, despite the answers you are contemplating to give on that disturbing issue, despite the rising opposition and difficulties, and despite the lack of resources or ability to prove yourself right before men, God is watching to ensure you end well and provide you with amazing solutions beyond the answers you can give, answers that will stun people around you. There will always be a time that you will not be able to give satisfactory answers to some question. That does not mean you are stupid and out of your ways as people may think.

Every call and assignment from God will be opposed irrespective of the clarity of the vision or vision, and if it is from God, know it that before He gave you the assignment, He had judged you competent and able. When God concludes on a matter, it cannot be reversed. Your call and assignment from God are scheduled to finish well. Romans 11:29

Finishing well is a guarantee from God that requires us to do a lot of things, but the most important of them all is praying, patience and watching with all diligence. Besides every other known strategies, prayers works and is very effective, and capable of producing results that physical weapons cannot produce. The bible says it is effective in all forms of battles, physical or spiritual. The devil fears and without fault and question, respects all prayers honored by God.

“But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and in a great rage, and he ridiculed the Jews. And he said before his brethren and the army of Samaria, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things [at will and by themselves]? Will they try to bribe their God with sacrifices? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him, and he said, what they build, if a fox climbs upon it, he will break down their stone wall. And Nehemiah prayed, Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn their taunts upon their own heads, and give them for a prey in a land of their captivity. Cover not their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before You, for they have vexed with alarm the builders and provoked You. So we built the wall, and all of it was joined together to half its height, for the people had a heart and mind to work. But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were going up and that the breaches were being closed, they were very angry. And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem, to injure and cause confusion and failure in it. But because of them we made our prayer to our God and set a watch against them day and night.” Nehemiah 4:1-9. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

The commission on you is to finish strong and well. Let the enemies rise, let the people imagine whatever they like, let the road be rough and tough, God had mandated you to finish well. Don’t look at the names the people are calling you and your project, fixe your attention on the God who called you. Don’t look at your strength when the enemies come, trust in the strength and power of God. Don’t complete with others, stay focus and you will finish well. Nehemiah did not finish well because he had assistance from the king, but because he was committed to praying, watching, trusting God and determination to finish strong and well.  For prayer, click here