THE JOURNEY YOUR FATHERS COULD NOT FINISH, YOU WILL FINISH IT
THAT YOU HAVE DONE WHAT OTHERS HAVE NOT DONE DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED
UNTIL WE SEE JESUS FACE TO FACE THERE IS ONE MORE STEP TO TAKE OR SOUL TO BE SAVED
THOSE WHO THINK LIFE IS A VACATION END IN FRUSTRATION
DO NOT GET CARRIED AWAY WHEN MEN CLAP FOR YOU WHILE HEAVEN IS CRYING FOR FAILURE TO GO WHERE YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GO.
WHEN MEN CLAP FOR YOU, IT DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED BECAUSE YOU CANNOT MEASURE YOURSELF WITH THE SCALE OF MEN.
WHEN YOU STOP MOVING, EVERYTHING STARTS DYING.
– Dr Pastor Paul Enenche on ARISE, SHINE || Kingdom Power and Glory World Conference || Glory Dome, Abuja || Day 1 – Evening Session || PART B
2. To Arise from a position of rest or relaxation.
This position of rest or relaxation is more like an accomplishment. It’s more like the position of arrival.
It’s more like the position of achievement, of success. There are people today who are settled. They are settled. Settled with a level of result or a level of success. And it is a tragedy, it is calamitous. That was the challenge with Abraham’s father. How many of us know that Abraham was not the first person that wanted to go into the land of Canaan. His father was the first person.
But his father came to a place, maybe he felt like he had tried, he had succeeded, so he tested there. Genesis 11:31. He was going into the land of Canaan, but he came into the land of Haran and dwelled there. He settled that is what it means.
When you stop moving, you start dying. Everything around starts dying for the man who has stopped moving. I know of people who stopped at the place God wanted them to start.
I was reading the biography of a man many years ago and it came to the point where this man stood on a large crusade ground and made a very terrible blunder.
That became the end of his ministry. As I read it, the Holy Ghost spoke to me so loud. He said, This man stopped where he should be starting. Am I communicating at all?
Arise from this position of complacency, of premature contentment! People are clapping for you with smallness when Heaven is crying for you, for failure to go where you are supposed to go. It is very easy for human beings to clap for you when they think you have succeeded because the vision of man is limited. Man can’t see how far God sees.
So with their limited vision, they compare you with other people and they conclude that you have succeeded, you have arrived and they begin to clap for you and you settle and God said there is a glory you have not seen! There is a point you have not touched, Arise! The fact that you have done what others haven’t done does not mean that you have succeeded.
It does not mean you have succeeded because you cannot measure yourself with the scale of men and conform your success. You only measure yourself with the scale of God and you are able to be sure whether you have succeeded or not.
When you stop moving, everything starts dying. I am one of those who believe that until we see Jesus face to face, there is one more step to take.
For when we see Him, we shall be as He is. Until that day, there is one more step to take, one more move to make, one more impact to make, one more devil to cast out, one more afflicted person to be healed, one more soul to be saved, until we see Him face to face.
When Abraham’s father stopped and died, God came and picked Abraham. Abraham finished the journey his father started but could not finish.
-I speak to someone here today, the journey your fathers couldn’t finish, I declare you shall finish it! The realm of glory and the realm of favor and the realm of resources this that went ahead of you couldn’t touch, God shall enable you to touch it!
If you believe that, shout the loudest Amen!
You got a car, you haven’t arrived yet. You move to a new, very beautiful house, you haven’t started yet.
You built a very big church, God said there is one more to build. Even if it’s not that location, somewhere else around the world. Is God speaking to someone here?
Issachar had a problem initially. Even though they later became known as men of understanding, that was not the story initially. Genesis 49:14 shows us a tragedy that happened to Issachar.
That is the tragedy of those who decide to rest when it is time to move.
Who decide to rest when they are meant to rise. They become servants unto tribute.
The man, the woman who fails to embark upon acceleration has surrendered to oppression.
He saw that rest was good, the land was pleasant and he became a servant unto tribute. Those who think that life is a vacation end in frustration. For them the whole of life is a holiday.
My wife told me, How can you bring me all the way to so and so place and you cannot even go out to go and do shopping.
One day we went to Dubai, and they said Oh, let us go to a shopping mall. We drove almost one and a half hours to get to the shopping mall.
When we got to the place, after 2 or 3 minutes, I told them, You people ‘refund’ me back to the place you picked me from. ‘Refund’ me to where we were staying. I didn’t have patience to go and look round. My body was itching for work.
This Monday to Friday, last week that we went to America is the longest we have been there. There are times we did 3 days, 4 days.
One of the officials at the airport said, You mean you flew all the way to come and spend 3 days, 2 days? We said, Yes we have too much work where we are coming from.
That was the first time they were seeing somebody coming and he’s not coming to spend one month, 6 months or 3 months or 2 weeks. I have never spent a Sunday there. How?
Except God counsels or instructs otherwise. And it has to be on assignment. The first Sunday I spent there, I think flight was the issue. Then I went to a mega church somewhere to just look around and see what is happening.
Issachar saw that rest was good, that was the end of his freedom. He aligned to relaxation. He aligned to a life of ease. That was the end of his freedom, his relevance, his impact.
Well, there is a time to rest.
God rested after all His work. When rest becomes too much, you rust. Everything you do, rest, you are hiring yourself to ease, life becomes unease.
One day the Lord told me that the bird that stops flying in the sky is set to fall. So Arise! God is deliberately speaking to someone here tonight.
Like the children of Israel, you are still holding on to this mountain, it is time to Arise and take up your journey. Deuteronomy 1:6.
You have stayed too long. You have hung around this victory, you have hung around this testimony for too long. Arise, take your journey .
I was speaking in a church in America, 26th anniversary of church met us there. I told them that I have been in thought since. Are there things that justify 26 years of assignment? They said what are you talking about. Even my own children said, Then what will you say about our own lives?
I could talk like that because nobody was there when God showed me what He wants to do.
And in the economy of things that must to be done, there are things that need to move faster than…
To rise means get up from the position of rest or relaxation.
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