Without
faith it is impossible to please God. Faith is a vital ingredient for an
outstanding life. Faith makes things seemingly impossible to become possible.
Faith is a master key to an unlimited life of positivity and possibilities.
But, when faith is not tamed and channeled appropriately, it can assassinate
faithfulness, and thus eliminate eternal life. I will explain.
Faith
is good, and indeed "anything that is not of faith is sin". But
today, the society is filled with men who "claim" everything by
faith, even when some of those things are not theirs to be. People now claim
other people's positions by faith, whether or not the person holding the
position dies or lives, all they are in for is his/her position. This is
forceful disposition to illegally acquire in disguise, and not faith. It is
similar to waiting for a divorce or breakup to happen so that you can
"possess" (the partner) what may not belong to you in the first
place.
When
your faith means the failure of another, then be cautious. When you have to
pray for another person to fail/fall/err so that your chance can come, then
that's not the God kind of faith. This is a hard nut to crack especially in
this dispensation of claiming everything by fire and force. Many will be quick
to paint the Esther-Vashti phenomenon...but are you Esther? Is it not God that
"raises one up and brings another down"?
When
you apply faith to get something and in the process you compromise faithfulness,
your so-called faith just assassinated your faithfulness and puts a big
question mark on your eternity. Any faith work that stains your faith walk is a
failed war...a battle you have lost.
Faith
might bring results, but faithfulness brings reward. Your results may amaze
people, but when God will come, He comes with reward for your faithfulness and
not your faith. It is reward that matter in eternity not results. Some people
will accumulate results but will have no single reward because they sacrificed faithfulness
on the altars of compromise in the name of faith. "Behold I come and my
reward (not result) is with me to give every man according to his works"
(Revelations 22:12).
It's
unfortunate that faith messages have filled the air and are daily been emitted
from pulpits. People are charged about a faith speed that operates on 400km/hr,
and so they set out driven by the desperate passions of success and fame,
cheating everyone they deal with, looting treasury, stealing people's
happiness, promoting fraudulent practices, and acquiring results and amassing
wealth, then coming back to testify how the faith message has worked. But in
the process, they have rendered many hearts broken, taken food away from the
tables of many, put tears on the eyes of many homes, many children have died
indirectly from their works/actions, etc. They pay tithe and do charity and
philanthropy...but none of these is recognized in Heaven. Their so-called faith
assassinated their faithfulness and be-clouded their conscience. God is watching!
When
your "faith" punctures your faithfulness, you replace eternal values
with earthly valuables, and you are not far from judgment..and Hell. "The
life of a man does not depend on the abundance of the things he has"..and
so God doesn't see your successes as meaningful when your success story is
built on compromised character and flawed integrity. You might be at the peak
today, but you are a glorified thief and a celebrated criminal, the end of whom
is pity and in the pit. "Bread of deceit is sweet, and stolen water, but
in the end, the mouth shall chew gravel". "Wealth gotten by vanity
shall develop wings and fly away".
What
is celebrated in most circles as success today are heartbreaks before God. True
success is when faith thrives on the fulcrum of faithfulness to produce results
which reverberates in eternity as rewards. Are you truly successful or you have
illegally and deceptively siphon other people's sweat into sweet for yourself?
You are claiming faith has worked for you, but soon God will judge you not on
your faith but how faithful you are. "Weldone you FAITHFUL servant.."
(Matthew 25:21). Are you faithful or a "faith-fool"?
Some
people think by giving to the poor and less privileged, and supporting God's
work that will make God approve of their misdeeds. NO. God will never identify
with that your so-called faith that made you steal, lie, slander, kill to make
money. Rather God is angry that you are bringing polluted money before Him.
This is the reason the works of many shall be burnt by fire when tested.
Faithfulness
is the real key to multiplication. When faithfulness meets faith, unprecedented
results and rewards will follow. If you apply faith and steal, you may get
results, but God will not reward you, rather your results will land you in
hell.
Do
not allow anyone to "sugar-coatedly" push you to compromised success.
It is failure in disguise. God bless you.
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