DAY 4 (MIDNIGHT TEACHING) 2020 BATTLE FOR THE GATES – THE MYSTERY AND POWER OF COMPANIONSHIP (PART 2)

16287. THE MYSTERY AND POWER OF COMPANIONSHIPS (PART 2)

IN LIFE, THE FIRST SET OF NATURAL COMPANIONSHIPS ARE YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AS YOU GROW UP FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD.

TERAH HAD THREE RECORDED SONS IN THE BIBLE (ABRAM, NAHOR AND HARAN) (GENESIS 11:26-27). THAT WAS HIS NATURAL COMPANIONSHIP. OUT OF THOSE 4 PEOPLE, ONLY ONE WAS BLESSED IN THE LAND OF THEIR NATIVITY IN MESOPOTAMIA (UR OF THE CHALDEES), IN FACT, ONE OF THE 3 SONS (HARAN) DIED IN THAT LAND OF THEIR NATIVITY (GENESIS 11:28) NAHOR WAS THE ONLY COMFORTABLY BLESSED AND FRUITFUL IN THAT LAND.

IN ORDER TO CHANGE THEIR STORY TO GLORY, TERAH FIRST HAD TO SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM THAT UNFAVORABLE COMPANIONSHIP OF HIS NATIVITY BY DEPARTING FROM UR TO CANAAN WITH A STOPOVER AT HARAN (GENESIS 11:31)

THIS IS WHERE THE MYSTERY OF COMPANIONSHIP IS REVEALED. TERAH WAS THE FATHER, BUT HIS NATIVITY FAVOURED HIS SON, NAHOR, ABOVE HIM. HE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THAT CAPTIVITY OF HIS NATIVITY. HE REACTED, PARTICULARLY WHEN HIS SON, HARAN DIED UNTIMELY IN THAT NATIVE LAND.

MANY OF US ARE TOO BLIND TO SEE, TOO DEAF TO HEAR, AND TOO SLOW TO UNDERSTAND THE BODY LANGUAGE OF OUR NATIVITY AND CAPTIVITIES.

WE ARE OFTEN TOO FAMILIAR TO REACT TO CAPTIVITIES OF OUR NATIVITY. MOST TIMES, WE THINK IT IS “NATURAL”, SO WE KEEP HOPING AGAINST HOPE THAT THINGS WILL BE BETTER “LATER”.

LISTEN 👂 TO ME: YOUR COMPANIONSHIP COULD BE A PLACE YOU GREW UP IN, IT COULD BE A PEOPLE YOU GREW UP WITH OR CLASSMATES WHO MAY NOT EVEN BE YOUR LIFE MATES. YOU MUST CRITICALLY STUDY AND THOROUGHLY MEDITATE ON WHAT YOUR OWN COMPANIONSHIPS ARE, AND WHETHER IT IS FRUITFUL, FAVOURABLE OR DEFICIT.

EVERY ONE OF US ARE PRONE TO HUMAN MISTAKES IN OUR CHOICES OF COMPANIONSHIPS, WHETHER OF A PLACE/LOCATION OR HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. BUT MANY TIMES, WE FAIL TO EXERCISE THAT GIFT OF “FREEWILL” OR “CHOICE” WHICH WE USED IN MAKING THE FIRST MISTAKES OF DEFICIT COMPANIONSHIPS TO CORRECT THOSE MISTAKES!

WE GOT STUCK WITH ALL MANNER OF LAME AND MEDIOCRE EXCUSES TO STAY AND STICK TO COMPANIONSHIPS OF CAPTIVITY OF OUR NATIVITY AND FAMILIARITY.

TERAH DEPARTED FROM THAT DEFICIT COMPANIONSHIP BY LEAVING HIS NATIVITY TO ANOTHER LAND. HE COULD HAVE GONE ALONE, BUT HE CARRIED ABRAM AND HIS WIFE, SARAI, AND HIS GRANDSON, LOT, ALONG TO THE NEW PLACE.

ABRAM’S COMPANIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER WAS A BLESSED COMPANIONSHIP. WHEN THEY GOT TO HARAN, THEY PROSPERED THERE, EVEN THOUGH, IT WAS A STOPOVER.

AFTER TERAH DIED AT A RIPE FULL AGE (205 YEARS) – (GENESIS 11:32), GOD APPEARED TO ABRAHAM IN (GENESIS 12:1) AND SPELT OUT THE TERMS OF DEPARTURE FROM NATIVITY:

1. DEPART FROM COMPANIONSHIP OF COUNTRY
2. DEPART FROM COMPANIONSHIPS OF RELATIVES
3. DEPART FROM COMPANIONSHIPS OF FATHER’S HOUSE OR FATHER’S FAMILY

GOD GAVE HIM THREE MOST-DIFFICULT DEPARTURES TO OBEY. FOR MANY OF US, IT IS EASIER TO DEPART FROM FRIENDSHIPS THAN FROM COUNTRY OR RELATIVES AND ANCESTRY.

MANY TIMES I TELL PEOPLE DURING COUNSELLING THAT WE ALL LOVE THE BLESSINGS OF ABRAHAM BUT LACK THE IMMEDIATE OBEDIENCE OF ABRAHAM! (GENESIS 12:4)

16288. COME NOW AND LET US REASON TOGETHER WITH THAT MIND OF CHRIST GOD GAVE YOU.

MY WIFE IS ALWAYS TROUBLED WHEN I KEEP QUIET WHEN MY SPIRITUAL SONS AND DAUGHTERS MAKE WRONG CHOICES IN LIFE’S MATTERS. SHE WOULD SAY, “DADDY, CALL HIM/HER AND TELL THEM THEY’RE MAKING MISTAKES”

DO YOU KNOW WHY GOD IS QUIET OR SILENT WHEN YOU MAKE WRONG CHOICES OF LOCATION OR PARTNERS OR DECISIONS?

IT IS BECAUSE HE GAVE YOU FREEWILL OR GIFT OF FREE CHOICE AND WILL NOT TAMPER WITH YOUR WILL OR CHOICE, HE WON’T IMPOSE HIS WILL UPON YOU. WHAT A DANGEROUS GIFT THAT IS!

WHY DID I SAY THAT GIFT IS DANGEROUS?

HOLY ANGELS OF GOD DON’T HAVE THAT GIFT. ANGELS OF GOD ARE LIKE ZOMBIE. THAT’S WHY GOD WARNED US NEVER TO MISTALK BEFORE AN ANGEL. (ECCLESIATES 5:6 KJV) “Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?”

EXODUS 23:20-22 (KJV):
20. Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

21. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

22. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

FOR ANGELS, GOD’S YEA IS YEA! AND HIS NAY ARE NAY! BUT FOR THE FREEWILLED HUMAN BEINGS, WHEN GOD SAYS YEA, YOU’RE FREE TO SAY NAY!

LOOK AT THE HORRIBLE DRAMA OF THE WORLD OF CARNALITY TODAY. PEOPLE DO BREAST IMPLANTS, BUM IMPLANTS, PEOPLE “WASH” AND BLEACH THEIR SKINS, AND EVEN CHANGE THEIR GENDER THROUGH SURGERY. GOD SAYS MALE AND FEMALE, HUMANS SAY NAY! IT’S FEMALE AND FEMALE, MALE AND MALE. YET GOD KEPT QUIET AND ALLOW US TO EXERCISE OUR FREEWILL OR CHOICE WITHOUT IMPOSITION OF HIS WILL ON US.

EVERY CHOICE IN LIFE CARRIES CONSEQUENCES!

AFTER I HAVE TAUGHT YOU AND GUIDED YOU WITH THE LIGHT OF GOD, I AM NOT A BABY-SITTER PASTOR, I WON’T IMPOSE GOD’S WILL ON YOU BECAUSE HE DIDN’T IMPOSE HIS WILL ON ANY MAN. WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR CHOICE, I WILL BE GODLY, THAT IS, I WILL BE LIKE GOD, BY KEEPING QUIET OR SILENT.

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