IF you fall down, you must get back up AGAIN!
In life we sometimes trip and we sometimes lose our way and forsake our paths, this causes us to fall on our faces and lick the mud, the important thing to d is to get back up again!!
Regardless of how many times we fail, fall and falter we must realize that God is not finished with us yet and His ultimate for us all the time is good and NEVER evil, and better days are yet ahead of us if we are alive and well in God!!
We must never see our fall as the end of the road; we must get up from the ground and get back on the path of righteousness, good and power. Life is fraught with ups and downs especially when we’ve missed our paths in God as a result of sin, ignorance and disobedience and even when we are on the straight and narrow sometimes troubles comes, but God in his power, love and providence has promised us the VICTORY!!
Whenever we fall, fail and falter we must by the grace of God ARISE and by the help of God rebuild and recoup for we have two hands in life, one is to build constantly and the other is to fight, this truth was expounded by Bishop T. D .Jakes.
Time waits for no one so we must jealously guard our days and not allow times and seasons that seem devastating to steal our joy and destroy our hopes.
Life sometimes deals us all kinds of blows seasons of adversity when the bills are high and the funds are low, when friends are nowhere to be seen and even family members are all busy with their own life’s share of troubles, at such times we must hold on tenaciously to God and pray and believe in the saving grace of the Almighty the creator and maker of the universe whose prayer is the we succeed regardless of all the odds for God is never against us but always for us. For God has clearly made it clear in His Word that He does not wish that any man perish but that we all come to the knowledge of repentance and renewal.
Whenever we fall, and we are in the terrible situation we must remember the story of the 4 lepers in the Bible. These four lepers were lepers so that made them outcasts, men who were despised and hated by the rest of the community. They were simply not wanted and they had to stay far away from everyone but even though they were lepers God still loved them and cared about their well being.
One day they began to think to themselves because there was famine in the land. They began to reason amongst themselves, “if we stay in the city we will die”! “if we go outside the gates of the city into enemy’s territory we will die, but there is no food in the city, so they chose to move forward and leave their comfort zone where they had not been able to record any significant success because they were despised and hated anyway.
They chose to take a step of FAITH forward, they were prepared to die going forward, and they were tired of status quo and chose to die moving forward! God Almighty saw their FAITH and decided to honour their faith and reward their courage.
As they moved into enemy territory, their enemies heard the sound of war and believed that the Israelites were upon them, even though all that happened was that God Almighty made them hear that sound. God CAN DO ANYTHING if we believe! He is the God that makes the impossible possible! When God sees faith He responds and He rewards.
Like the four lepers I have personally chosen to move on and move forward and if I perish I perish!
Personally my month of April was threatening to say the least but I thank God today that I not only came through but I am determined to forge forward and make progress regardless of the oppositions and the troubles life brings my path.
I also know that in Christ Jesus VICTORY is sure and VICTORY is guaranteed!
Perhaps you are at a place in your life where you do not know what to do, who to see and who to trust?
Perhaps life has dealt you a fatal blow and you feel like sitting still and making no further movements of progress.
Perhaps you have achieved all and have plateau, well my brothers and my sisters regardless of where you are there is a greater place and a higher destination in God.
You might have lost all, maybe from a wrong business venture or you have just not been able to get if off the ground, fret not yourself because God is at work in you both to will and to do of his great pleasure.
You are not alone; God is your ever present help in the time of trouble. As they say it is darkest just before dawn and just because you failed does not make you a failure. According to John Maxwell one of my most cherished authors, you can fail forward!
The moral of the story of the four lepers includes the following:
1. Never look at your condition to determine your prosperity; because when they got to enemy camp the enemy had fled and they left so much bounty that the famine that had ravished Samaria the home of the lepers disappeared in one day! Yes in one day!
2. Never die where you are, go forward regardless of the pain you are going through, if you have to crawl, crawl, if you have to wade through the waters wade, whatever you have to do against the strain do it! As long as you are not doing anything illegitimate!
3. Trust in the providence of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! God rewards Faith and courage!
4. When you think it is over that is when God begins his work of rebuilding, reconstruction, renewal, and releasing. Like Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo will always say, “IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL YOU WIN”!
5. You might not understand the path that you take as an individual but ultimately God knows, sees, and understand and His will, plans, purposes and counsel will always STAND because He is your creator, maker and king! Or is He not?
As you forge ahead in the month of May believe for greater days ahead and may the God of Peace, Power, Pleasures and Possibilities grant us all grace, mercy, truth and more than anything may we experience His love which is so great it is incomprehensible and so wide it is unimaginable.
Welcome to May the month of Grace, beauty, dignity and power!
Copyright @ VICTORIA fadeyi May 2010
