THE MESSAGE...

29th August 2010

Ezra 7:10

Following Ezra’s Example

Dear Brothers and sisters, we must persevere to do the will of God in our duty and service to God! The Lord likes a broken and contrite heart. If we want to come before Him we must come with humility and reverence.

Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of God and also to do it’. We should ask ourselves this question, ‘Are we seeking the Word of God and determined to do them?’ Brothers and sisters, not only do we have to KNOW the Word of God, His commandments – but we have to obey them by doing them, by putting them into practice in our daily lives. It’s only then will we see the power of God in our life. It takes the conscious will of man to follow the Word of God. This perfect will of God is not automatic in our lives because the fall of man through Adam brought sin into the heart of man. It takes the Word of God and obedient to the Word to put right in us whatever was made wrong in our heart through sin.

Fellow believers, we need to hold on to the Word of God. When we have done what Ezra did, the Lord will ALWAYS be faithful to His Word. If we want to teach others about God we have to let the Word of God be PART of our lives; we cannot just live anyhow and become living contradictions.

As we allow the Word of God to rule our lives, we will all be able to impart the Word into generations to come. Our aim is to live right for God on this Earth so that one day by His Grace we shall join our Maker in Heaven, for ‘absent from the body present with the Lord’. Praise God.

AMEN