Are you a single man or woman who have been praying for a faithful spouse and it seems as if Jehovah is not answering your prayers? Are you a married person who want a child yet nothing is working in your favor? Are you an individual who is living from pay check to pay check; one who just cannot seems to get out of debt? Or have your personal burden or desire been a problem for some time now? Have you been praying long and hard for the desires of your heart yet the object of your prayer seems to evade you. Are you on Jehovah’s list of person to ignore?
Have your situation force you to ask, why Jehovah is not answering my prayers? Can you honestly say that you are living according to Jehovah's expectation and you are experiencing a Job situation? Well, I have good news for you, the type of news that the conventional preachers are not honest enough to tell you, the type of news that will guarantee your prayers will be answered ASAP, the type of news that will relief you of your stress and relief you of all your care.
It is important for us to know that among all of the unfathomable qualities that make up Jehovah character, two of these qualities come into play when he (Jehovah) is dealing with man in his sinful condition. These two qualities are: his Justice and his righteousness; in other words, Jehovah is a Just and a righteous God. How is the fact, that Jehovah is a righteous and a Just God preventing me from having my prayer answered and denying me of the desires of my heart?
Let us get to the core of the matter, we will begin by explaining who Jehovah is and how his qualities of righteousness and Justice affect each of us. It is important to know that Jehovah is the creator of every thing that exist and he is the one that is responsible for the function and sustenance of everything that exist.
How does Jehovah's quality of righteousness and Justice affects me?
The Bible said God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sow that to shall he also reap. This is true because of Jehovah’s righteousness and his Justice. Ezekiel speak of the judgement, which will come upon those who fail to walk in Jehovah's will. If Jehovah is willing to punish those who do evil and live in rebellion to his will then Justice demands that he with the same vigor reward those who are faithful to him.
We have been speaking about Justice but what is Justice?
Justice is the impartial treatment of another; in other words, it is giving a person that which he deserved. Because Jehovah is perfect in the dispensation of Justice, he cannot withhold from you, what you deserved. Righteous simple means, doing that which is right; it means nothing more or nothing less. Similarly, because Jesus is a righteous and a just God and because he is perfect in his righteousness and his Justice; there are somethings that he cannot do. Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ cannot withhold from you that which you deserve, be it punishment or reward and in the same manner he cannot give to you that which you do not deserve. It is as simple as that.
Although the forgoing is true; however, there is a conditional exception. The death of Jesus Christ give us the rights to escape the eternal death which each of us deserve. but because of Jesus' death; we can now claim this rights under the condition that we love the lord Jesus and Jehovah with all of our might, heart and soul and we are ready to allow his love to lead us into total obedience to him.
Let me without reservation declare that Jehovah is eagerly waiting to bless us. Psalms 84: 11 clearly states that: "No good thing will he (Jehovah) withhold from those that love him;" however, the reason Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and the reason we have not received the desire of your heart even though you have been praying without ceasing for that thing, or even though you go to church, or serve the church and have been preaching the gospel, it is because our love and our faithful to and in Jehovah is not seen, heard and felt. Everyone knows that love must be consistently demonstrated and if love cannot be seen, felt and heard it does not exist.
The good thing is, we know when we are not faithful to Jehovah; we may fool others when we play church, pretend to be faithful or shake the pulpit in the name of Jesus in whatever capacity we do such in but our love and faithfulness must be seen, heard and felt. In most cases we were faithful to the church, a religion, a pastor, to our spouse, children, our family, to money, material things etc but not to Jehovah. When Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and grant us the desire of our hearts it is because we are not faithful to him.
When you are faithful to Jehovah, there is only one answer he provides and that answer is yes. No is never an answer, for righteousness and Justice requires that Jehovah satisfies the desires of our hearts immediately. for Justice delayed is justice denied.
Let us take for example the father of the faithful Abraham, Jehovah called Abraham and instructed him to leave the land of his father when he was 75 years old, at this point Abraham was married but childless. One of Jehovah’s promises to Abraham was that he will be the father of a great nation and this promise meant a lot to Abraham. However the righteousness and the Justice of Jehovah prevented Jehovah from fulfilling his promised to Abraham, until Abraham was truly faithful to him.
Abraham fail to demonstrate his faithfulness to and in Jehovah when he choose to break Jehovah’s law by violating the eighth commandment. In Gen. 12: 12-16 he encouraged his wife Sarah and his younger more impressionable nephew Lot to violate Jehovah’s law. In doing so Abraham forfeited the opportunity to be a witness for Jehovah but rather he misrepresented Jehovah when he lie to the princes of Pharaoh and to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and in the process disowned his wife and his marital status.
Was this a one time situation or was Abraham a habitual liar. I will like to submit to you that Abraham was a habitual liar. It is one thing to lie to an individual but it takes a certain degree of dishonesty to include others in that lie. Another criterion that tells the quality of liar a person is, the level of persuasion with which that lie is delivered/told; the level of truthfulness with which that lie is delivered and the third criterion is the level of the authority we are willing to tie to.
Here we see that Abraham not only lie but he coached his wife and nephew until they were able to deliver that lie with such a level of truthfulness that they deceived the princes of Egypt and the King himself. I do not have to tell you how hard it is to deceive such category of people. These people did not get into the positions by being naive.
Abraham and his wife were such liars that in Gen.18: 12-15 when Jehovah’s messengers declared the fertility of Sarah’s womb she laugh and mumbled to herself, unfortunately for her, her reaction were not as concealed as she wanted it to be. When Jehovah’s messenger confronted Sarah about her behavior, her first response was to lie to them and by doing so she declare the messengers of Jehovah liars.
Then the father of the faithful when he was about eighty five years old he voluntary broke the Six commandment when he adhere to the foolish counsel of his wife and had sexual intercourse with Hagar his Egyptian slave. Does it make sense to violate Jehovah’s will to fulfill his will for your life? To do such is not only comical it is foolish. Was it a situation where Abraham went into Hagar one time and on that one occasion she conceived? Although this is possible it is highly unlikely. So it may be safe for us to conclude that Abraham have been knowingly defy Jehovah’s law and authority by committing adultery over a period of time. Abraham’s sexual indulgence with Hagar was so regular that she was seen and recorded as his wife. Ishmael was the fruit of that unholy union.
It is important for us to understand that Jehovah did not allow the day to day experiences of any of the prophet’s life, to be recorded in the bible; he allowed only the significant events that can be teaching moments for future generations to be recorded in the holy book. This was so even with his only begotten son Jesus Christ the sinless one. So we can conclude that the countless events of Abraham’s indiscretions were omitted for such would not have been of value to our salvation.
Then in Genesis chapter 20 1-4 a few years later Abraham in his old age moved to Ge’rar to sojourned or to lived there. Once again, Abraham made the calculated decision to lie to A-bim‘e-lech the King of Ge’rar and to his entire kingdom. In order for Abraham’s lie to have worked, he not only had to convinced Sarah’s to skillfully participate in the lie, he had to convinced the other members of his house to participate also. Abraham had to request or instruct his hired servants, his slaves, his slave wife Hagar and his illegitimate son Ishmael to lie to A-bim‘e-lech and his people. Here Abraham squandered another perfect opportunity to witness for and of Jehovah and his awesome power to provide and to protect his people.
It took Abraham twenty five years to mature to the point where Jehovah could actually bless him and thus bringing to pass the promise. This significant event was marked by Jehovah declaring to Abraham the fulfillment of the covenant between Jehovah and Abraham and he mark such a worthy event by changing Abraham’s name from Abram to Abraham, which: means the father of many nation.
So it is only when Abram put his total trust in and became consistently faithful to Jehovah that he received his blessing and that which Jehovah had promise to him. It is the same with us; Jehovah can only bless us base on the level of our faithfulness to him. The quality of our life is a testimony of our faithfulness to Jehovah.
1. Are you satisfied with the quality of your life?
2. Are you living a victorious life?
3. How does the people in your community see you, are you the head and not the tail?
4. Have you been receiving Jehovah’s unhindered blessings?
5. Is your cup full and over flowing?
6. Are you the one to provide help to others or are you the one who is looking for help?
You will be able to answer these questions in the affirmative when you are totally faithful to Jehovah.Until then, know that, you have your destiny in your hands and such destiny is linked to your faithfulness to Jehovah.
Have your situation force you to ask, why Jehovah is not answering my prayers? Can you honestly say that you are living according to Jehovah's expectation and you are experiencing a Job situation? Well, I have good news for you, the type of news that the conventional preachers are not honest enough to tell you, the type of news that will guarantee your prayers will be answered ASAP, the type of news that will relief you of your stress and relief you of all your care.
It is important for us to know that among all of the unfathomable qualities that make up Jehovah character, two of these qualities come into play when he (Jehovah) is dealing with man in his sinful condition. These two qualities are: his Justice and his righteousness; in other words, Jehovah is a Just and a righteous God. How is the fact, that Jehovah is a righteous and a Just God preventing me from having my prayer answered and denying me of the desires of my heart?
Let us get to the core of the matter, we will begin by explaining who Jehovah is and how his qualities of righteousness and Justice affect each of us. It is important to know that Jehovah is the creator of every thing that exist and he is the one that is responsible for the function and sustenance of everything that exist.
How does Jehovah's quality of righteousness and Justice affects me?
The Bible said God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sow that to shall he also reap. This is true because of Jehovah’s righteousness and his Justice. Ezekiel speak of the judgement, which will come upon those who fail to walk in Jehovah's will. If Jehovah is willing to punish those who do evil and live in rebellion to his will then Justice demands that he with the same vigor reward those who are faithful to him.
We have been speaking about Justice but what is Justice?
Justice is the impartial treatment of another; in other words, it is giving a person that which he deserved. Because Jehovah is perfect in the dispensation of Justice, he cannot withhold from you, what you deserved. Righteous simple means, doing that which is right; it means nothing more or nothing less. Similarly, because Jesus is a righteous and a just God and because he is perfect in his righteousness and his Justice; there are somethings that he cannot do. Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ cannot withhold from you that which you deserve, be it punishment or reward and in the same manner he cannot give to you that which you do not deserve. It is as simple as that.
Although the forgoing is true; however, there is a conditional exception. The death of Jesus Christ give us the rights to escape the eternal death which each of us deserve. but because of Jesus' death; we can now claim this rights under the condition that we love the lord Jesus and Jehovah with all of our might, heart and soul and we are ready to allow his love to lead us into total obedience to him.
Let me without reservation declare that Jehovah is eagerly waiting to bless us. Psalms 84: 11 clearly states that: "No good thing will he (Jehovah) withhold from those that love him;" however, the reason Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and the reason we have not received the desire of your heart even though you have been praying without ceasing for that thing, or even though you go to church, or serve the church and have been preaching the gospel, it is because our love and our faithful to and in Jehovah is not seen, heard and felt. Everyone knows that love must be consistently demonstrated and if love cannot be seen, felt and heard it does not exist.
The good thing is, we know when we are not faithful to Jehovah; we may fool others when we play church, pretend to be faithful or shake the pulpit in the name of Jesus in whatever capacity we do such in but our love and faithfulness must be seen, heard and felt. In most cases we were faithful to the church, a religion, a pastor, to our spouse, children, our family, to money, material things etc but not to Jehovah. When Jehovah is unable to answer our prayers and grant us the desire of our hearts it is because we are not faithful to him.
When you are faithful to Jehovah, there is only one answer he provides and that answer is yes. No is never an answer, for righteousness and Justice requires that Jehovah satisfies the desires of our hearts immediately. for Justice delayed is justice denied.
Let us take for example the father of the faithful Abraham, Jehovah called Abraham and instructed him to leave the land of his father when he was 75 years old, at this point Abraham was married but childless. One of Jehovah’s promises to Abraham was that he will be the father of a great nation and this promise meant a lot to Abraham. However the righteousness and the Justice of Jehovah prevented Jehovah from fulfilling his promised to Abraham, until Abraham was truly faithful to him.
Abraham fail to demonstrate his faithfulness to and in Jehovah when he choose to break Jehovah’s law by violating the eighth commandment. In Gen. 12: 12-16 he encouraged his wife Sarah and his younger more impressionable nephew Lot to violate Jehovah’s law. In doing so Abraham forfeited the opportunity to be a witness for Jehovah but rather he misrepresented Jehovah when he lie to the princes of Pharaoh and to Pharaoh the King of Egypt and in the process disowned his wife and his marital status.
Was this a one time situation or was Abraham a habitual liar. I will like to submit to you that Abraham was a habitual liar. It is one thing to lie to an individual but it takes a certain degree of dishonesty to include others in that lie. Another criterion that tells the quality of liar a person is, the level of persuasion with which that lie is delivered/told; the level of truthfulness with which that lie is delivered and the third criterion is the level of the authority we are willing to tie to.
Here we see that Abraham not only lie but he coached his wife and nephew until they were able to deliver that lie with such a level of truthfulness that they deceived the princes of Egypt and the King himself. I do not have to tell you how hard it is to deceive such category of people. These people did not get into the positions by being naive.
Abraham and his wife were such liars that in Gen.18: 12-15 when Jehovah’s messengers declared the fertility of Sarah’s womb she laugh and mumbled to herself, unfortunately for her, her reaction were not as concealed as she wanted it to be. When Jehovah’s messenger confronted Sarah about her behavior, her first response was to lie to them and by doing so she declare the messengers of Jehovah liars.
Then the father of the faithful when he was about eighty five years old he voluntary broke the Six commandment when he adhere to the foolish counsel of his wife and had sexual intercourse with Hagar his Egyptian slave. Does it make sense to violate Jehovah’s will to fulfill his will for your life? To do such is not only comical it is foolish. Was it a situation where Abraham went into Hagar one time and on that one occasion she conceived? Although this is possible it is highly unlikely. So it may be safe for us to conclude that Abraham have been knowingly defy Jehovah’s law and authority by committing adultery over a period of time. Abraham’s sexual indulgence with Hagar was so regular that she was seen and recorded as his wife. Ishmael was the fruit of that unholy union.
It is important for us to understand that Jehovah did not allow the day to day experiences of any of the prophet’s life, to be recorded in the bible; he allowed only the significant events that can be teaching moments for future generations to be recorded in the holy book. This was so even with his only begotten son Jesus Christ the sinless one. So we can conclude that the countless events of Abraham’s indiscretions were omitted for such would not have been of value to our salvation.
Then in Genesis chapter 20 1-4 a few years later Abraham in his old age moved to Ge’rar to sojourned or to lived there. Once again, Abraham made the calculated decision to lie to A-bim‘e-lech the King of Ge’rar and to his entire kingdom. In order for Abraham’s lie to have worked, he not only had to convinced Sarah’s to skillfully participate in the lie, he had to convinced the other members of his house to participate also. Abraham had to request or instruct his hired servants, his slaves, his slave wife Hagar and his illegitimate son Ishmael to lie to A-bim‘e-lech and his people. Here Abraham squandered another perfect opportunity to witness for and of Jehovah and his awesome power to provide and to protect his people.
It took Abraham twenty five years to mature to the point where Jehovah could actually bless him and thus bringing to pass the promise. This significant event was marked by Jehovah declaring to Abraham the fulfillment of the covenant between Jehovah and Abraham and he mark such a worthy event by changing Abraham’s name from Abram to Abraham, which: means the father of many nation.
So it is only when Abram put his total trust in and became consistently faithful to Jehovah that he received his blessing and that which Jehovah had promise to him. It is the same with us; Jehovah can only bless us base on the level of our faithfulness to him. The quality of our life is a testimony of our faithfulness to Jehovah.
1. Are you satisfied with the quality of your life?
2. Are you living a victorious life?
3. How does the people in your community see you, are you the head and not the tail?
4. Have you been receiving Jehovah’s unhindered blessings?
5. Is your cup full and over flowing?
6. Are you the one to provide help to others or are you the one who is looking for help?
You will be able to answer these questions in the affirmative when you are totally faithful to Jehovah.Until then, know that, you have your destiny in your hands and such destiny is linked to your faithfulness to Jehovah.
