Job 22:23 “If thou return to the Almighty, thou shall be built up, thou, shall put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.”
This is the time to return to the Almighty God. Many people have strayed away from the truth. Many are working in their own ways.
Many are no more living the life that is in Christ. And there's no way you can be in the presence of the Lord, if you don't walk in this way because - John 14: 6 “Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.” So the Lord is beckoning every one of us, that this is the time to return to the Almighty God All the things that have been happening is a message, is a clear message that many have derailed. The world itself have derailed.
The world has rejected the truth and have derailed. And this is the time as true Christians, we must show the example of Christ. This is the time we must know to walk in the ways of the Lord. Proverbs 14:12 “There’s a way that seemeth right. But the end of that way is the destruction” (death).
This is the time you must choose to walk in that narrow part that the Lord has given to us in the scriptures (Mathew 7:13-14) This is the time you must not follow the multitude to sin. There is a way that is broad, that is acceptable to many. But not acceptable to the Lord and many are following it. This is the time we must begin to set good examples, especially those of us who are the Ministers of the Gospel.
We must begin to show good examples because we are supposed to be under Shepherd. Let us not continue to mislead and derail people from the truth because there's no truth outside the Word of God. What you are teaching these days what you're making people to believe is it based on the Word of God. This is the beginning of a message of Revival, the Lord has given to me. I'm going to as God, the Spirit of God leads me.
I'm going to release them one-by-one how to return. But returning starts in your mind. You should realize that you have already walked away and you are doing your own thing. This is the time we must purposely focus to live the life that is in Christ, even if others are not living that way. We must purpose to live that way, the life that is in Christ. This is a call to return, this is a call to repentance.
This is a call to stop going further the wrong way. This is a call to stop misleading people in the wrong way. Or taking the people to the wrong path. This is a time we must begin to ask ourselves. What are we proclaiming? Are we proclaiming the true Gospel?, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ? Or are we preaching our own Gospel. This is the time because the Lord is at hand. Be prepared.
So this is the time you must come to realization and ask basic questions to yourself - the way you are going, the way you are leading people, the way you are teaching what you are teaching, is it based on the Word of God? This is the time we must not look at Ministry success because of numbers.
This is the time we must not look at Ministry success because of how many cathedrals and how many branches we have. This is the time we must begin to look inward and ask ourselves the way we have been living, is it pleasing the Lord? The Lord created us for His good pleasure. This is the time we must sit up, this is the time that judgments begin in the house of the Lord. We must know it. It is in the time of difficulty that we know those who are truly serving the Lord in Spirit and in Truth.
Many are complaining now about the different laws that are being made by the different governments in their land. But it is in the time of this kind of period, that you know, those who are true Christians, those who really call upon the Lord. God knows how to make a difference for his people in the difficult time. Are you afraid of persecution?, persecution is needed to purify the church, persecution is needed to bring back the church to the Truth. This is the time, we must know that the church is the body of Christ.
This is the time, we must know the church does not belong to anybody. This is the time we must purpose to walk in the Truth. This is the time we must raise men and women for Christ, not for ourselves. This is the time we must realize that the Lord is reminding us of the command he gave us to go and make disciples of all nations, not disciples unto ourselves. Who will believe in only the doctrines we preach which is not even doctrines based on the word of God.
This is the time that true disciples should be like the Berean Christians (Acts 17: 10-11) whose searched the scriptures to know what they were told whether it was so. This is the time, you should not swallow everything, everybody says. Christ is preparing every believer to be Priest and King to reign with Him and to reign for Him.
This is the time we must ask questions whether what we are being told is so. This is the time we must learn to search the scripture, even after what we have been told, or be preached to, or taught. We should search the scripture to know whether it is so. We should not swallow everything without searching the scriptures.
This is the time we must yield to the Holy Spirit because He is the Spirit of Truth. Do not allow any spirit, or any other thing to manipulate or control you. This is the time we must know to walk by the Spirit. We walk by faith, we walk by the Spirit of God, not by human wisdom. This is the time, we must not yield to the wisdom of men and the teachings of men that are not based on the wisdom of God.
This is a call to return.
Dr. Iheme N. Ndukwe Revivalist revival@innwordrevival.org