Friday February 07th, 2025
« You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you »
15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.”
26 “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Some people think that God is doing great things for them because they deserve it.
They think because of all that they do for God, then it is only expected that He would bless them as He does.
Believe me honestly, everything that God does,
- He does for His name’s sake – not for you, but that His name will be glorified (Psalm 106:7-8).
Don’t become arrogant, God could use anyone else.
There are people who pray, study the Bible and are even more talented than you,
but God chose you;
you should be grateful for that.
In any case, if we were to count iniquity, who will stand? (Psalm 130:3).
When people see the things God is doing in RCCG, they think I must be special. The only thing special about me is that God chose me, because even from as far back as when I was a little child, God had promised my Father-in-the Lord that RCCG would go round the world. It had nothing to do with me at all; God just decided to glorify Himself through this Church and it is only by grace that He chose me to be the General Overseer. He could have chosen anyone else. There are people far more qualified than I, but it is by grace that I was chosen.
When you see people still drowning in sin, don’t judge them because you are on your way to heaven; rather, pray that God will save them by His grace.
It is by His grace that you are not the one on the way to hell.
Never forget that it is He who is working something out for His name’s sake.
You are only graced to be a recipient of God’s blessings.
The people of Israel may have thought that God parted the Red Sea and drowned Pharaoh and his army because they were so special.
He did it for His name’s sake.
They were only graced to be the ones He did it for.
Romans 9:17AMV testifies to this
« For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “I raised you up for this very purpose, to display my power in [dealing with] you, and so that my name would be proclaimed in all the earth” »
Application – Father, thank You for Your grace over my life. Please don’t let me ever stop enjoying help from Your throne of grace.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Soul-restoring, mind-recalibrating Praise and Worship sessions – Evangelist Jemps Benoit ; Minister Paola Médi
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