WHEN FAITH ASSASSINATES FAITHFULNESS, ETERNITY DIES (I)
(GREATNESS SERIES WITH DR. BUKOLA WILLIAMS)
  By instruction, we have skipped the series on "OLD LIES THAT BREED ODD LIVES" so as to bring you something more urgent for the moment. This series will enlighten and lift your spirit.
  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. (TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW)