"ARISE AND REIGN IN ME OH LORD"

Post date: Apr 26, 2018 3:42:14 AM

God is not willing to remain idle and dormant in the life of any of His children and truly, He does not want you to be idle and dormant physically and spiritually. He does not like it and is not willing to encourage it in you. As He does not want to remain idle and dormant, He does not want you also to be idle and dormant. He desires to be very active, very useful and very helpful to you in all things and to reign over everything that is associated with you. When you are idle, you equally make your God be idle thereby giving the devil the chance to afflict and create problems you do not deserve in your life and in things that concern you.

God will forever love and will support all forms of activities that will produce and reproduce the kind of joy and excellence that will lift His name in your life, in your location and profession. When God made Adam and Eve, He commanded them to be reproductive by being active. It is only activity that gives birth to productivity which brings the desired increase from God. This is what God said to Adam and Eve after making them: “So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God bless them and said to them, be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28. You can only be fruitful and be able to multiply, subdue and have this pronounced dominion when you overcome spiritual and physical idleness by being and remaining very active. Through His word, God gave man the desire for more and the grace to overcome idleness. Did you know that same grace, that same word, and same command is still active and effective today?

This was what God did for them after those words: “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight or to be desired, good, suitable, pleasant for food; the tree of life also in the center of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity. And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it.” Genesis 2:7-9; 15. He enabled them to be able to fulfill His words and command.

Did you know that you are a direct descendant of Adam and Eve in the flesh and of Jesus Christ in the Spirit through repentance, forgiveness, and regeneration? That same grace to be active in the flesh and in the spirit is also extended to you as it was to Adam and Eve, and Christ Jesus our Lord and savior in their time on the earth.

Did you know that it is not enough to only invite God into your life without asking Him to reign and make you productive? When God dwell and reign over a city, His radiance will definitely be noticed from a distance in the life of the people and He will take away their hindrances. When He dwells and reigns over an institution, He opens the eyes of the people in that organization to see beyond their knowledge and to act beyond their capacity, and when He dwells and reigns in the life of an individual, irrespective of the situation in that life, He brings miraculous changes. When God dwells and reigns in you, He creates rewarding opportunities that will marvel your skeptics by doing extraordinary things in and through you.

God cannot reign in a place or in the life of an individual without turning things around, but He can dwell without turning things around. When you sincerely allow God to dwell and reign in your life, good and unthinkable things begin to happen immediately. Besides dwelling, when He reigns, He replaces old things with new ones. He is willing to reign in your life. Just ask Him to do that in you now.  For prayers Click here