REV. BUSUYI OLABODE
The things that God wants to do with us are not things our minds can capture. Man is at his weakest and it is good for us because if God wants to come when we are strong, we will try to fight back.
If the fullness of Christ is revealed in us, restoration will become normal. Man’s restoration will bring fullness on the earth. The whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Anytime the gospel comes, it comes as weak because it looks like it cannot restore the earth to order but it contains the wisdom of God to get the earth restored. The gospel is the power of God or the government of God to change souls. It is usually disseminated with patience because once souls are saved, nations are saved. God is raising armies on the earth here that will change systems.
Fruits are important when talking about harvest. In harvest, the fruit is the major expectation. John the Baptist baptized with water. It was a time of faithlessness in Israel and he had to stir up faith in them. As small as John’s commission was, there were expectations. God expects harvest at various levels and the gospel is able to achieve that.
COLOSSIANS 1:3-6:” 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:”
There is a way the gospel can bring our own results and not God’s result. This is because we have been used to results. You cannot get born again in your own way. When God raised the Son, He made every provision for every soul. It is time to know the Son because He is the answer to every soul. We should not take our attention away from Christ. The gospel is the answer every soul needs and God wants us to keep consistent focus on the Son for it.
JEREMIAH 5:23-24: ” But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”;
JEREMIAH 8:19-22: “Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”;
The essence of the harvest is to bring about salvation. What is to be done at harvest is healing and that healing is salvation. The former rain came because of righteousness. The only way we can move into God’s fullness is to understand God’s righteousness. God is the only One that watches over the investment of souls in order to give increase. It is not about the one who sows or waters but about the one who gives the increase. It is the increase that is called salvation. As we increase, we are being saved. You can increase in yourself and on the earth and not be saved.
The inability of a soul to respond to God is a disease ([biblegateway passage=”I Peter 2:24″ display=”I Peter 2:24″]). ‘By His stripes we were healed’ is not just for our body but for the healing of the soul and the fact that it does not work for you does not mean it has failed. When man fell, so many things went wrong in his soul.
GALATIANS 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
When we got born again, there was a level of joy and peace that we experienced but there is peace at various levels that are required to bring the soul to different levels of fullness. There is a rest He gave us when we became born again but there is a rest we have to find for ourselves. Peace can be a fruit of the spirit but He is asking us to come into a higher level of peace. Jesus does not wear a crown, yet He is the King of kings. God want us to understand that there is a lot being deposited in us and He wants it to remain with us.
II CORINTHIANS 9:8-9:“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.“;
PSALM 72:1-3: “Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.;
ROMANS 8:5:”For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”;
II TIMOTHY 1:7:”For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”;
ZECHARIAH 10:1: “Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.”
There is something that God has that is given to only those whom He can trust with it. If you do not understand His righteousness, you will not understand the extent of His dominion. Peace depends on righteousness. When you see a righteous life, it results in peace. Anytime you move out of God’s righteousness, you will begin to lose your peace. Each time you have fear, something has happened to you. For God to give His Son righteousness, the Son had to ask for it.
The rain of God is the rain that will raise the seed of God. He is mindful of you. There is nobody God has in mind that will be less than the image of the Son. God’s design is to make us conform to the image of the Son. God wants us to know how to be righteous and advance by righteousness. God is speaking all the time to make us advance in the light of His righteousness.
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God’s expectation is that we increase in knowledge and that will change our judgement or perception of things. God does not use human excellence. The righteousness of Jesus exceeds because it is ever knowing. If the Lord is with you, you will discover that you are ever increasing. The revelation of righteousness is meant to move us to the realm of excellence. When sin came, the law had no answer although it was good. Righteousness is not afraid of sin. God is bringing us to the realm of grace and by grace the harvest will be kept.