Vessels For The Next Move (Part 2)

GOG - 19 - 250 - 2019: Vessels For The Next Move (Part 2)

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FOR THE NEXT MOVE PASTOR CHARLES OMOFOMAH (PART 2)

In the preceding article, I mentioned that

She even asked them to pursue after them

Later, this sister was narrating the story to

unlikely vessels are the ones that God is going to use in the next move. When you start seeing yourself as the most unlikely

quickly. Immediately after that, what did she do? She went to meet the spies where she had hidden them and begged to sign a

someone else and she expressed her displeasure at the words Pastor Nkechi used on her. “How could she talk that way to

person, then you are the vessel for the next move of God. When God chooses unlikely persons, He goes very far to prove that He knows what He is doing. In this article, we

covenant with them. These were wanted men as it were, whose lives were on the line. How does anyone sign a covenant with a wanted person? It is evident that she was

a married woman like herself?” She asked.

Do you know why people will say such things? They can say that because they do not know that the excellency of the power is

will look at two more principal actors that God will use in the next move.

sensitive to know what God was doing at that time and in sync with the next move of God. So, she was ready to respect, protect

of God. If they knew, they will realize that Pastor Nkechi is not just a married woman, there is an anointing on her that has called

and follow God’s uncommon ways in this next move even against her own country and people.

her to do what she is doing and to uphold what she is doing now. If you go contrary to that, you are opposing that move of God.

There was a sister in our church. She and her husband were very committed in the church. We later found out that, for almost

Rahab came to the spies and said, “We have heard…” (Joshua 2:10). Who are the “we”?

They are her countrymen, the people of

a year, her husband was not tithing. I called them to talk to them and in the course of the discussion, the woman was trying to

Jericho. Rehab told the spies that she can see what God is doing and she would rather sign a deal with them than sign a deal with

indict her husband. She said, “I told him, I told him,” and she even used some very strong words. Then my associate pastor, at

another. Meanwhile, the rest of the people were busy pursuing after them. There are people who will use their courage to oppose

that time, Pastor Nkechi Ene who was with me during the meeting asked her a simple question. All the while that he wasn’t tithing, if he was bringing money home?

the things of God. You should neither have a negative attitude nor an attitude of rebellion. You should not be opposed to what God is doing. You must be sensitive to

Enthusiastically, she replied, “Yes.” Pastor Nkechi asked her again, if she took the money and spent it? “Yes,” she replied. Then

know what God is doing in the now and protect it with your life because doing that is living by faith. Rehab chose rather to be

she told her that she was also doing what she was accusing her husband of doing. At the end of the day, we took them through

yielded to what God was doing at that time and it saved her. There were covenant people, children of Israel who could not

the Scriptures and counseled with them.

enter the next move because if you do not

God Uses Those Who Will Respect And Follow God’s Uncommon Ways.

Remember that we began to look at how Rahab became the unlikely vessel that God used to preserve the lives of the spies that Joshua sent to spy out the land of Jericho.

Considering the fact that Rahab did what she did, against her own people, one could say that her action was against national interest and therefore unpatriotic. The thing expected of her as a citizen is to support her country, but she did not do that because she was respecting and following God’s uncommon ways. She later did something that looks foolish because of that. Remember that when the people that the king of the land sent came to Rahab, she told them that the spies were not with her.

She acknowledged the fact that she had seen them, but she does not know which way they went, before the gate was shut.

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respect something, you can never attract reconciliation. The vessels for the next move Or you are out of the church, and you say, that thing. must be intercessors.

“Oh, that message was wonderful, we are Hebrews 11:31 says, “By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not

going to trust God for the next move, and the 12 Now, therefore, I beg you, swear to me next move will surely bring the car to me.” by the Lord, since I have shown you Some people pay their tithes because they

believe when she had received the spies with peace.” This Scripture says that the others perished, but by faith, Rahab signed a covenant with the spies, and she did not

kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token, 13 and spare my father, my mother, my

perish with them. When you side with what God is doing, you will live.

brothers, my sisters, and all that they that was how they were saved. They are not have, and deliver our lives from death.” thinking about how they can help a brother Joshua 2:12-13 or a sister who could not go to school

are afraid of an accident, or they are afraid that evil things will happen to them and not because they are thinking of sinners, or because other people gave their tithes and

The Bible also says that after the men got out in pursuit of the spies, they shut the gate in case

because their parents are no more or how they will win more souls. Everything is

the spies were still inside the city and indeed they were still inside the city. The gate was shut but because the two spies were

seen from I, me and myself.

working with the purpose of God and Rahab understood this purpose and sided with them,

family and then she went the extra mile to bring them to her house. The faith of God

the shut gate could not stop them. I prophesy to you that if you would side with the purpose

and the move of God will work within the conaines of God’s law. Verse 19 of Joshua

Rahab the harlot stood in the place of intercession for her

of God for your life, no matter 2 meant that if they are found the enemy, the shut gate will neither stop outside of this conainement and something Rahab interceded for her family. The men nor hinder you. Faith is the instrument by happens to them, Joshua’s men would not be said: which God deaies every shut gate. Paul and held guilty. Joshua’s men were talking with Silas were locked up in the prison but by faith, they prayed to God and sang praises unto Him, and every prison door was opened.

In Joshua 2:15 when the men were going,

certainty, assurance, and with the view that the victory was theirs. This is because they you bind this line of scarlet cord in the were protecting what God was doing at that window through which you let us down, time and there was no doubt at all in their and unless you bring your father, your minds as to whether God will do it or not. mother, your brothers, and all your 18 Unless, when we come into the land,

father’s household to your own home. they were let out by a scarlet cloth and it is Joshua 2:18 this same scarlet cloth that they told the woman to tie to the window of her house.

In the Scripture above, “… Unless you bring Then they said to her that when they see the your father…” suggests that Rahab’s family cloth, they would not destroy her. That was members were not with her. Rahab, before how they came down from the wall, because now, had already interceded on their behalf. the gate was shut, everywhere was shut but For the next move of God, the instrument that scarlet cloth was there and the woman that God will use must be selaless vessels. came out untouched.

God is not going to use people that

everything they do is selaish. There are God Uses Those That Will Stay In people who only think about how they are The Place Of Intercession. going to get their next designer’s suit or how

They told Rahab that if they go out of the conaines of the laws of God, they would be destroyed. Walk within the conaines of the laws of God. Be selaless and intercede for other people, then you can be the vessel for the next move. Unlikely vessels are those who protect God’s uncommon ways; as well as people who will selalessly intercede. They, undoubtedly, will experience the next move of God.

What does it mean to intercede? To they are going to buy the latest car etc. How intercede simply means to intervene on many of you leave the church and what you behalf of another, to intervene as to attempt think about is what will better the church?

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