Rom 8:37
Midweek/Communion Service: Topic: Breaking through hardships in life.
Introduction
That we are in Church is not a
freelance to enjoyment without huddles.
It takes strict obedience to godly principles to breakout from the norms
of this life. Every child of God is
ordained to go through the challenges of life.
We are not ordained to die in it. It is through that hardship is real
but what is more real is that we are more than Conquerors. Rom 8:
35-37
Christ suffered hardship to
take us to where we are today, so it is not something new! Someone paid the
price for our salvation! The gospel of
Christ that we are enjoying today, some saints paid the supreme price to get it
to Africa and we need to do same.
Nothing of value is ever free.
There is always a price to be paid Rom
8:16-17. As soldiers of Christ, we are to endure hardness (2 Tim 2:3). Ask any successful man or
woman today, their story is that they endure hardness! It is my prayer that God give you more grace
in Jesus Name!
As believers, the through
proofs of your divine calling must be tested! For example, when God has created
you to feed the poor, then you must taste some hard poverty to know what it is
to be poor. The processes of life are
ordained to make us strong and not to mar us.
God has giving all things
freely to the Church but we must work for it.
Rom 8:29-37.
How do I breakthrough the
hardship of life?
1. Operating with
absolute love for God and the things of God: Rom 8:38-39. We must
understand that “all things work together for good to them that loved God” Rom 8:28. Love the things of God. Love prayer, fasting, sowing, evangelism etc.
2. Be a covenant
practitioner! Be a giver, be a
sower. Gen 8:22. It is a spiritual
law. We must understand that whatever
promise God has promised us, He is faithful to also bring it to pass.
Rom 9:9. Faithful is he that promised who also will do it. (1 Thess 4:24), Eccl 11:6. Gen 26:12. Believers must learn to release their Isaac
so that they can become a generational blessing. Gen 22:13; Heb 11:17 and Jam 2:21.
3. Be diligent in your
Work! Harvest precedes a work. Don’t be a lazy fellow. Even prayer is hardwork. You must do the work that God has ordained
for you diligently. Let him that does
not work never eat. God your father worked and He is still working, so you must
work. Gen 2:2. Eccl 7:13a. Eccl 9:10.
John 6:28-29. It is an error to
mandate the people to live their various work in the morning for prayer
meeting. Eccl 3:1.
To be continued!
