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Know Your SOURCE! (2)

An encounter that will last you a life time! That was what I promised you will get in this instalment of my series on 3 Simple Steps System That Pumps Money Into Your Bank Account Like An Invisible Paymaster published here last week.

What a bold promise that was!

But be rest assured that I will deliver. I know I will because I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me and gives me the grace to keep my promises.

Okay, let’s get started. Would you feel offended if I told you you didn’t know the way to the house you live in? I mean, you’ve just returned to the same house from wherever it was you went to, and here I was saying that you didn’t know the way to the house. Wouldn’t you think I was crazy or something?

You would? Great!

Now, suppose you describe the way to the same house to a friend, showing him landmarks and other objects that will make it easy for him to locate the house, and your friend still fails to find the house, would that change the fact the house is where you live and that the way you described for him leads to the house?

The answer, obviously, is “No!” Right?

Fine. Now that I was able to get you to agree with me on both points, then let me tell you an amazing story. This event took place in 1974. Prior to the time it happened, I was flat broke. The reason I was broke will not surprise you. I was engaged in a hopeless venture. I was betting on pools, with the hope of making more money than the Nigerian Army was paying me at the time.

Long story short, I didn’t make any money from the pools. Instead I got deeper and deeper into debts. It got so bad that the only way I could feed my family within three days of receiving my pay was to borrow money or beg the women selling provisions in the barracks to sell to me on credit.

This was the case until one Friday in April of that year when I decided, for once, not to sneak out to the pools betting shop during the hour the authorities devoted for worshipping GOD. Rather, I found my way to a place of worship.

And it happened. The minister of GOD made an altar call. I stepped forward. I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. And things began to happen. Instead of studying the pools, I started to study the Bible.

Then I found Mathew Chapter Six. When I got to the 24th verse and started to read from there all the way to the end, what the Author of the Book was saying to me was pure music to my ears.

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink….” When I got to this place, I had to pause. Did He just say I shouldn’t worry about what I would eat? I had to read that sentence again and again to be sure I read it correctly.

“Oh well,” I said. “That’s what I do everyday, worrying about nothing else but what me and my family would eat. So are You going to provide it? And if You say ‘Yes,’ how would it happen?”

As I continued reading, I found the answer in verses 31-33: “Therefore do not worry, saying ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink? or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all things. But seek first the kingdom of GOD and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

“Wonderful!” I exclaimed. “Here at last is the answer to the question that had been tormenting me.”

But it took me time before the promise could be delivered to me. No, the delay was not from the One who promised it. It was me that was getting in His way. I was too anxious. And I hadn’t learnt to heed one of His instructions that says I should be anxious for nothing.

So I was anxious. And when you’re anxious, your faith is not in place. But gradually I learnt to trust Him. I learnt to believe that whatever He says, He will deliver. He’s not a man that He would lie.

It’s more than 35 years now. And in all the years between 1974 and now, I have never gone to bed one night and had reason to worry or even think about what me and family would eat the next day. The Author of the Bible, who made that promise that I believed, has never failed to fulfill His promise even once.

The Author of the Bible, the one I encountered in 1974, the Living WORD, is the SOURCE of everything that is. This is how Colossians 1:16 – 17 reveals Him: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consists.”

And the Gospel according to John confirms it. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” [John 1:1-5].

Yes, that is your SOURCE! If you have an encounter with Him today, I guarantee it will last you a lifetime.

Just think about it: 1974-2009. And counting still. And He has not failed me. Even when I went astray, He was still faithful, patiently waiting for me to come to my senses like the Prodigal Son.

And guess what? He is not a respecter of persons. Whatever He did for one person He will do for another, provided that person did the same thing the other person did to provoke His favour [Acts of Apostles chapter 10 verse 34].

Are you already doubting my story; that He was not responsible for my testimony; that what I’ve just shared with you is not true?

That is because you don’t know GOD as much as you thought you knew Him. Anyone who truly knows Him, who has had genuiine encounter with Him, will not doubt my story. And even if you persist  in doubting my story, that does not change the fact that I know for a truth that what I’ve just shared is the truth and nothing but the truth.

It’s like me disputing the fact that you know the way to the house you’re living in. Come on now!

Okay, now that you know Who the SOURCE is, how do you connect with Him and stay connected? That is what I will be sharing with you next week. Don’t miss it!