The irony of faith: The church ‘comfortability’ in slavery

Many a contemporary Christian is unfortunately preaching passive comfortability in slavery; amplifying eating crumbs in shackles, and just living by and by, avoiding a head-on collation with the controlling forces of the land.

This way, the church becomes weak in power, is rather the opposite of what the kingdom is meant to be.

The modern Christians have become so comfortable in a strange land that they are now denying the power of God to deliver. Such believers have denied the power thereof and turned the faith into an ordinary routine religion.

This type of Christianity is what makes people at ease in Zion as long as they are comfortable and their family safe, it is okay. Such Christians have denied the power of the gospel. Throwing under the bus the scripture that says; “preaching of the gospel is the power of God unto salvation.”

Preaching the gospel is the power that releases people from bondage and make the enemy to bow. We are only too comfortable to only explore the giving dimension of God to meet our daily bread and willing to explore the dimensions of divine power to do exploit.

Today’s Christians are so much engulfed in their daily bread and seem not to be interested in the kingdom of God and His will be done earth, thereby denying the opportunity to demonstrate the power of God to establish His will on earth.

One would have expected that the kingdom glory should be the ultimate focus of Christians, but the reverse is the case.

Many churches these days only focus on events and programmes to gather more funds and many other frivolous activities that have nothing to do with expanding the frontiers of God’s kingdom.

The governments of the world spend huge sums for acquiring modern-day weapons of war and skills to deploy at any simple threat because they know the importance of power to secure their territory.

Should not this be a pointer to Christians that the race which Jesus began cannot afford to stand aloof. The world may not accept the message and personality of Jesus but historically it cannot be denied that a man walked through their land over 2000 years ago nor will they deny the historical background of Moses and the Egyptian experience.

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It’s myopic when all that the Christians are seeking are just to do miracles and not to bring people into the kingdom. As long as I agree with accountability and transparency of the church’s financial status, I believe this frivolous life of opulence has relegated the essence and usefulness of the church to the lowest ebbs in this country.

If the church in this nation has played a kingdom power dimension on a national scale, just like the experience of Elijah to the King Ahab and the calling down of fire on the mount camel, I believe any government will tread softly with the church.

However, the passivity of the church has brought this ridicule unto the name of God and it now looks as if we are serving a dead and powerless God.

Moses challenged the authority of his days as a result of divine backing and that formed the pedestrian upon which the journey of Israel into emancipation was initiated. GOD instructed Moses to face the god of the land in Pharaoh and he did and conquered because the people of the land saw the reality of the power of true God.

No matter how comfortable the church seems to accumulate wealth without the ability to demonstrate the realities of their God, their wealth will be run over at any time the pharaoh of the land desires.

It’s like a slave working hard to own things forgetting the fact he who owns the slave owns his belongings. The church should be reborn, and change the dimension of their operations.

The church is called to stand against the wiles of the devil at a larger scale most especially believers whom God has lifted beyond the bread level should spread the kingdom life to the high place of the political offices not just to be gaining material favour from officeholders and leave the smaller churches for fighting the village people and little demons affecting individual lives.

We are in the days of His power and His people should be willing.

In the days of God’s power, the church will accomplish tremendous feats to defeat the enemies of the church in whatever form.

The church must be sensitive to know when they should launch out on the offensive and when they should fight back in a defensive format. Many believers don’t seem to understand that we are in the battlefront hence we are only interested in wealth accumulation to compensate the live of poverty many have lived over the years.

I watched a clip of a very popular movie series named “Games of throne” Lord Benny man was talking to Queen Sessie saying, “Knowledge is Power’ but she countered him immediately saying, ”Power is Power” it belongs to those who can wield it not just the type of power to know without the ability to control or wield it. To be continued!!!