TIME FOR EVERYTHING [2]

THERE IS TIME FOR EVERYTHING!

I welcome you again into the concluding part of the message I started a couple of days ago, it is my prayer that the intending change and revival God expect from this instruction will begin with you and you'll not recover from it until our territory is recovered from the hand of the devil, and Jesus is finally enthroned on our national and judicial seat in Jesus name.

In order to wrap up my narrative experience with my dad, I was blessed in the end following his advise to accompany them to the occasion. There is a challenge I envisage in our forth coming crusade which the Lord used that occasion to handle, as I met someone who is ready to lend a helping hand. It would not have happened gift wrapped like that if I tried to prove any right and renounce his fatherly counsel.

Notwithstanding, Elisha never deviate in his godly characters in the face of all the glory, fame and prosperity that grace his ministerial banquet, until heaven deemed it fit to expand and extend his ministerial border to another nation. The hunger for expansion and increase was there. He was not satisfied with a national glory and identity; he by virtue of his consecration and commitment to God sue for international recognition until heaven see the need to introduce him and his ministry to another mighty kingdom and her nobles.

Elisha recognized the promise and plan of God for man to be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; to have dominion and possession over kingdoms and nations by virtue of the grace and gift of God deposited in him (Genesis.1:28). So he was sensitive and receptive to divine move when the opportunity comes. He has his spiritual antenna operating at a very high frequency, such that he knew what was going on around him and even in the presidential villa. He was a prophet per excellence!

Unlike many of our notable ministers today who have allowed gift and praise of men to block both their spiritual ears and eyes, continually feed the nations with fake prophecies that lack God's backing. How many of their predictions about the current administration actually see the light of reality? May God have mercy!

As for Elisha, even when the king had not called him, he knew what was going on at the Aso rock. He was such a capable man in that office! He had an uninterrupted communion and relationship with God over the affairs of the kingdom of Israel and Judah, to instruct, put on check and advise so much that when there was a confusion in the palace he knew and said, "...why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." vs.8 . What a great grace! What a confidence in God! What a complete, capable and genuine man of God! He had nothing to fear. While the king was confused and confuse the move of God for a national war, Elisha stepped in and turned the tide around to the glory of God and pride of his nation.

However, while Elisha was walking faithfully with God, and carefully following the godly footprints of his predecessor and guard the treasure he inherited jealously with a view to pass it on to subsequent generation, Gehaz was not careful to follow in his master's steps. He was following Elisha but not faithfully and wholeheartedly. Instead of asking questions over some of Elisha's sharp reactions to issues and events, he simply doesn't care. He was always after spoil. His divine office and placement he came to win under the auspices of Elisha was not precious to him like the material gift that comes to his master. What was precious to his master was not precious to him until he lost his eternal inheritance to the spoil of that Syrian man.

This is a man God has been using to raise the dead and perform many wonders under Elisha's watch, but unfortunately was distracted at the verge of laying hold on eternal inheritance and succeeding such a kind of kingdom general by the spoil of Syria. What a great mistake! While Elisha left the presence of Elijah with a double portion of anointing and got a prove by the mantle, Gehaz left the presence of Elisha leprous and as white as snow because he was not studious and conscious of time. He conferred cause and calamity upon himself and his generation because he could not wait for his own time. He allowed the spoil of Syria to spoil his bright and glorious destiny.

Looking at that verse 8, Bible confirmed and approved Elisha as a man of God, but Gehaz has no place in this glorious heritage, he could not wait for his day of approval before Satan trapped him and forfeit the plan of God for his life.

Beloved, what is the condition of your life at the moment? What is the bait Satan want to use to destroy your glorious future, ask God to take it away. The reaction of Jesus at that moment of test is, "get behind me Satan!" Nothing between me and my heavenly crown of glory!I would have stopped weeping if only Gehaz suffered the consequence, what about the innocent generations? Bless you!