While God has great plans for you, sometimes you encounter setbacks.
Sermon of the Week with Pastor Erasmus Makarimayi
Disappointments may weigh you down on the journey to desired fulfilment.
Trials, tribulations and persecution may sting and bite you and probably remove a sizeable chunk from your life. Progression to the next level in life is often punctuated by an urge to quit and surrender.
The adversity you face is good for muscle formation and capacity increment.
The devil wants to capitalise on these drawbacks to derail you and entice you to abort your vision.
Satan gives you a meticulously written resignation letter to the pursuit of your dreams and aspirations only awaiting your signature for acquiescence.
With all that you are facing and going through, I wish to let you know that it is getting better.
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This is of course true only to those who belong to the Kingdom of God whose hope is the resurrected Christ Jesus. The Bible emphatically declares so. Isaiah 9:7a says: “Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.” A life that is governed by God is, therefore, incremental and sustained by peace.
Throughout the Bible, God works with mankind and womankind to continue a program of making a better world which He started on creation.
The Garden of Eden was to be maintained and improved.
The Promised Land was meant to be improved.
Because of the fall of man, Jesus had to come to mend the broken relationship between God and humanity.
It is God’s vision for things to get better at all times. You have to be constantly aware of this fact.
You may argue that you have just been fired, divorced, fallen sick, lost a relative or are on a downward trend.
I reiterate, as long as your hope is Christ, it is getting better. Even if you eventually fail the interview, lose the contract, get hospitalized or even pass on; you are still headed for a better place.
Even when things appear to be terrible, you can trust that God is still working out His divine plan for your life.
Your duty is to trust God for a better end result even if it means passing through fire. Jeremiah 29:11 implores you thus: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord , thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
No matter what challenges you are facing today, please believe that the Lord has incredible blessings and discoveries waiting for you.
You may face what you presume the worst of situations and a point of no return.
The Bible guarantees that you are not knocked out. Be strengthened by 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 which reads: “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
The Message Bible makes it clearer: “We’ve been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we’re not demoralised; we’re not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorised, but God hasn’t left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to Jesus, they do to us — trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in us—he lives!”
Stop crying, you are still in it.
There are many people that prayed for peace and prosperity in Zimbabwe.
Some prayed and received and are convinced that it is going to get better.
Others prayed and didn’t believe and receive and are now doubtful of where the nation is heading to.
Whatever the path God chooses, it is getting better. There may be steep slopes, slippery detours, storms and hurricanes.
Keep confessing what God says about the situation. Instead of confessing what you see, confess what God sees. If you don’t respond properly, you will forfeit the victories and blessings that God had in store for you all along.
Every time you face adversity, you have a choice to make. Are you going to become resentful and vindictive, and try to fight your own battles?
If so, then you are headed for serious trouble. If you surrender to God and trust Him, it is always getting better. Keep the faith. You have come too far to quit now. It is getting better.
You are going somewhere.
All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
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