The Message – Anger! Anger! Can Cut You Off From Your Treasures: [Not in your own strength] for it is God who is all the while effectually at work on you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. (Philippians 2:13 AMPL)
I was determined to know what God was trying to convey to me, as I remained on my knees pondering over the whole issue. He spoke to my spirit the following words: “ANGER! ANGER! CAN CUT YOU OFF FROM YOUR TREASURES.” Immediately I heard these words, I said to God, Lord help me! And He said to me, “Go preach it.”
When I heard these words from the Lord, I said to Him, Lord! You want me to expose myself? There was silence, and I didn’t hear anything again. Whenever God gives an instruction and then remains silent, know assuredly that He has closed His lesson for that class and is expecting you to do your homework, and until the lesson is driven in He will not open another class for you for a new lesson
The essence of the class is for the production of good works “For we are His WORKMANSHIP created in Christ Jesus for GOOD WORKS which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
Students who remain on old lessons become old students God does not have old classrooms for old students. Christians should be new every day. Our inward man can only be renewed every day through new lessons in His Word. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Stop Hiding What God Delivered You From
I recall here the story a man of God shared many years back on a national television, of his encounter with God in a dream He was on a voyage and at point he had to use the rest room. He got in and something like an incision on his head. He touched the particular spot and felt something and proceeded to remove what was there. He started pulling ow something, and the more he pulled it the more it was coming out. Soon, someone came in to use the rest room and as quickly as possible he grabbed all the stuff and hid it away. He waited long enough for the man to leave the rest room before resuming what he was doing pulling out the staff and putting them inside a hag Immediately, God spoke to him, (something like this)
“Don’t you think it’s time for you to stop hiding from people the stuff you are delivered from?
O! How we all yearn to hear God speak to us! How would you really like to hear him tell you to go preach about your weakness? How would you truly love Him to tell you (after you have just had an encounter with him in the area of anger) during the wee hours of Sunday, just to deliver His message and not your sermon- “Anger can cut you off from your treasures”?
When God told me to go share this, I asked Him to help me, and He did. I knew I had to obey the Lord this time when He told me to go give the church His message, “Anger can cut you off from your treasures.” The message He gave me was His message: the people He sent me to share it with were His people and I am His instrument of use. He must use His instrument to deliver His message. Having received enough courage therefore, I stood that Sunday morning (27 July 1997), and boldly preached His message which I titled, “ANGER”.
The Testimony
After preaching the message, which wouldn’t have been complete without revolving around the incident between my wife and I and all that happened physically and spiritually in my dream; some people shared with me their testimonies of how God spoke to them through this message. I recall what one brother said to me, ‘Pastor, I was the one you were talking to.’
Another Chance
I want to reiterate at this juncture, that I have truly been in a remedial course for a long time with God over this subject of anger; it wasn’t even that encounter in the month of July 1997 that brought a turnaround in the way I handle this inborn gift but that which I had in 2006. I had a dream that I was in a convention, and an angel walked up to me and gave me this warning from God, ‘If you do not desist, I will take you home.’ From the tone in the angel’s voice, I knew that God was not happy with me, or should I say that God was really sad at my over-reactions against my wife’s sanger.
I am sure you would guess right, how humbly and fearfully I prayed… ‘O Lord! Give me another chance! This is where I really started becoming born again in my emotions. Oh! How those who enjoy their display of untamed anger really need just one visitation from God. Then nobody will waste any single effort in begging them to ‘cool their pipes’.
God has been my help ever since; and as I write, I can boldly say that through His grace I have been able to understand in a greater way than ever, how not to let anger have a hold on me I am still learning how to maintain this every day because offences are bound to happen each day. But I have made up my mind not to allow satan drag me down anymore. I have always prayed the simple prayer that my pastor,
Pastor Taiwo Odukova taught me and that in LORDI HELP ME’.
But I want you to know brethren that the things which happened to me have actually mened out for the furtherance of the gospel (Phil 1.12)
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