For anybody to look
into or attempt to answer this question, I think it is important first of all
to know who is God. For most at times when we hear the sentence “THE LORD SAID
“what always come to most minds is God. So who is this God we always believe or
assume is speaking. Whatever you take or know God to be, know this also. God is
a spirit being who has no beginning or end. He is the uncreated creator. He
made all things came into existence and He was not made. The almighty; the most
powerful, the master of universe, omnipresent, omniscience and omnipotent God.
For me he is a being who is far bigger than whatever you can think. And at the
same time too smaller than whatever you can think of him. He is younger than
the youngest, older than the oldest, the unknown knowing being, the mystery
himself. He introduces himself as the consuming fire, the living water, I AM
WHO I AM, the first and the last, the holy one. There was a saint who wants to
understand the whole mystery of God. Because of this, He got into study,
fasting and prayers seeking and asking both God and men questions so that he
can understand fully the whole mystery of God or about God. But one day he saw
in a trance where he was walking by the sea shore he met a very young boy who
dug a small hole and going to and fro into the sea fetching water with a spoon
emptying it into the small hole and he asked the small boy what are you doing? The
boy replied, I want to fetch all the water in that ocean into this small hole
that I dug with this spoon. He was mad at the boy’s foolishness and
ignorance and he said to the boy stop at once! For you don’t know what you are
doing. Then the boy turned to him and said, and you think you know what you are
doing? Immediately the trance disappeared, he didn’t see the pictures again. With
this and all you know about GOD, as I earlier said, God is more than whatever
you can think of or know.
You can’t talk about the LORD SAID
without first of all agreeing on whom and who the Lord is. So who is the Lord? Put aside all you already know about judges,
bishops, some high ranking individuals or people in higher positions or offices
because of the power they have over their followers who addressed them as lords.
The word lord can sometimes be ambition, lust, desire, deity, spiritual power
or forces. What is lord: lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority,
control or power over others, acting like master, chief or ruler. JESUS is the
Lord. And the Lord said to me, did he? Yes THE LORD speaks but the question is
which of lords is speaking. Is it the LORD or lords? For the fact that you
agree with me that there are lords and there is LORD, all of them do speak. They
have their agents and servants who they speak through. That’s what brought us
to how do they speak? The ear of the
spirit in a mortal is the mind. It is through taught that you can hear the
spirit be it the LORD or lords. They also speak through dreams, trance, and
visions. Some lords can be consulted through divinity. Let us not talk or waste
our time on who is the servant of the LORD, or servants of the lords. But let
us look at the confusion in who speaks because once you hear the lord said
actually someone or something is speaking. Most at times when lords speak, we
assume that the Lord is talking. Who are
you hearing from, the LORD or lords? Who is speaking to you? Who do you want to
hear from? When someone who is not faithful with his/her marriage, job, or
profession, when his/her marriage crashes or loses his/her job, then they will
start running around, let him/her know who he/she want to hear from.
A Rv. father (fr) came to our parish and
told us a true life story. In fact he told us that he knew the person in question.
According to him, "There is a sister of mine who believes that enjoying life is
to live a wayward, immoral life, jumping from one man to another. Everybody
close to her advised her but to no avail. Until she got married, she continued
in her old way of life, been unfaithful to her man and marriage. To the point
that her husband called the Rev father himself and complained to him about his
sister’s behavior in so many occasions. He called his sister, talked to her but
she refused to change until her marriage crashed due to her character. So she
went on with her life after so many years, when she discovered that age is no longer
on her side and men no longer come her way as usual, she started running around
for prayers".
"The Rv. father said that one day he was in his office and his
phone rang, he picked and it was his sister on the phone. She requested for an
appointment and he granted her request. On the day she came she started by
telling him how prayerful she has become. She told him how she has been going round
meeting so many powerful men of God who have been helping her to pray. On why
she visited, she said I want to reconcile with my husband and children. She
explained that she has been praying about it and the lord told them that the
reason why her marriage crashed is because of their ancestral foundation, the evil
tree in their compound/family house. That the lord said, for her to bring the marriage back and for their family to move forward, they need family
deliverance." As I was listening to the
Rv. Fr so many questions came to my mind, how can somebody say that a family
that produced a pharmacist, a lawyer and a Catholic priest is not doing well?
Yes it is possible, they may need family deliverance, there may be ancestral curse
in their family but is that the reason why that marriage crashed? And the lord
said, did he?
To that young man who is staying late at
night as a way of life, who made beer parlor more comfortable than his home,
who don’t know the difference between working hours and family time, spending
more than your income on expensive wears and luxury life just to be acceptable
or please the public and over looking or neglecting your responsibilities at
home, is the lord not talking to you?
TO BE CONTINUE…………….
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