sermon 14.
Don’t allow satan to frustrate your life
A Sermon Preached on Sunday 28th May, 2017.
“Troubles multiply for those who chase after gods”─ Psalm 16:4.
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ne Igbo proverb says, “An ocean swallows anyone he sees.” Thus, will an ocean swallow somebody who is not in it? It is certainly no. We now link this Igbo proverb with our sermon today.
Though trouble is everywhere, we face it in our day-to-day life, but it multiplies to those who seek after gods, gods made of woods, gold and silver.
A woman married a man with many wives, and she wanted her husband to love her and forget about the other wives. She decided to get a love portion from one native doctor, but the native doctor gave her a poisonous charm which she added to her husband’s food. Her husband ate and then died. This wasn’t what she expected, and since then, troubles began to erode her dreams. Her husband died leaving her with no children, and then the other women began to chase her away from the house.
Satan is a frustrator of life, gaining advantage of those who seek after him. He brings troubles so that man will look for an alternative means to serve him. But one regrettable thing about it is that instead of finding solutions to your problems, your troubles keep on multiplying. Satan can frustrate and even put confusion into you, if you’re not a serious believer of God, you’ll end up not better than becoming miserable. The only one that can take you out from such a wicked act of Satan in your life is God, the redeemer. God is called a redeemer because he redeems his people out of the troubles and frustrations that Satan has subjected them.
When Satan frustrated Job, claiming the lives of his children and property, Job was able to get out from the grip of Satan by faith. Assuming that Job sought foreign gods beside his Creator, his troubles would have multiplied beyond redemption. It was the faith of Job that kept him living even in that undesirable circumstance. Out of pain, job declared unconscious prophecy, believing that Satan can only kill his flesh with frustration of life, but he has no power over his soul. Hear him:
“But as for me, I know that my redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God”─ Job 19:25-26 WEB.
There’re many people that are going through frustration in life, some have been financially puny─ forcing them to live in poverty, dilapidated houses, withdrawn from schools, or from establishing a business that would give them reasonable money, while some are going through broken families─ men leaving their wives or women divorcing their husbands, and children never know any joy in the family they’re born to. If care is not taken, such people will not find true happiness throughout their stay here on earth. The only remedy is to invite Jesus Christ into your life to take away Satan’s vices in your life. His word gives courage, and heals broken hearts.
Also, Jabez was marooned in the frustration of life. If you can picture out someone from your place that is very poor, know that such a fellow is richer than Jabez. Now in a situation like this, you realize how painful and frustrated life Jabez was going through until he consulted God through earnest prayers for enlargement of his coast. Through Jabez’s prayer, we know that he was a man of no reputation. His family knew nothing about wealth nor did people recognize them. Perhaps Jabez was still living in a poor house built by his poor parents. It may be that you have been planning to build your own house. But out of frustration, you are not able to execute it, and you’re still living under the roof of your parents’ house. A time shall come when your frustrated life now will become a history to you. As God granted Jabez that which he requested, you’ll break away from the frustration of Satan. By calling on God, we shall be liberated from the grip of Satan’s frustrations.
Don’t allow satan to frustrate your life
A Sermon Preached on Sunday 28th May, 2017.
“Troubles multiply for those who chase after gods”─ Psalm 16:4.
O
ne Igbo proverb says, “An ocean swallows anyone he sees.” Thus, will an ocean swallow somebody who is not in it? It is certainly no. We now link this Igbo proverb with our sermon today.
Though trouble is everywhere, we face it in our day-to-day life, but it multiplies to those who seek after gods, gods made of woods, gold and silver.
A woman married a man with many wives, and she wanted her husband to love her and forget about the other wives. She decided to get a love portion from one native doctor, but the native doctor gave her a poisonous charm which she added to her husband’s food. Her husband ate and then died. This wasn’t what she expected, and since then, troubles began to erode her dreams. Her husband died leaving her with no children, and then the other women began to chase her away from the house.
Satan is a frustrator of life, gaining advantage of those who seek after him. He brings troubles so that man will look for an alternative means to serve him. But one regrettable thing about it is that instead of finding solutions to your problems, your troubles keep on multiplying. Satan can frustrate and even put confusion into you, if you’re not a serious believer of God, you’ll end up not better than becoming miserable. The only one that can take you out from such a wicked act of Satan in your life is God, the redeemer. God is called a redeemer because he redeems his people out of the troubles and frustrations that Satan has subjected them.
When Satan frustrated Job, claiming the lives of his children and property, Job was able to get out from the grip of Satan by faith. Assuming that Job sought foreign gods beside his Creator, his troubles would have multiplied beyond redemption. It was the faith of Job that kept him living even in that undesirable circumstance. Out of pain, job declared unconscious prophecy, believing that Satan can only kill his flesh with frustration of life, but he has no power over his soul. Hear him:
“But as for me, I know that my redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth. After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God”─ Job 19:25-26 WEB.
There’re many people that are going through frustration in life, some have been financially puny─ forcing them to live in poverty, dilapidated houses, withdrawn from schools, or from establishing a business that would give them reasonable money, while some are going through broken families─ men leaving their wives or women divorcing their husbands, and children never know any joy in the family they’re born to. If care is not taken, such people will not find true happiness throughout their stay here on earth. The only remedy is to invite Jesus Christ into your life to take away Satan’s vices in your life. His word gives courage, and heals broken hearts.
Also, Jabez was marooned in the frustration of life. If you can picture out someone from your place that is very poor, know that such a fellow is richer than Jabez. Now in a situation like this, you realize how painful and frustrated life Jabez was going through until he consulted God through earnest prayers for enlargement of his coast. Through Jabez’s prayer, we know that he was a man of no reputation. His family knew nothing about wealth nor did people recognize them. Perhaps Jabez was still living in a poor house built by his poor parents. It may be that you have been planning to build your own house. But out of frustration, you are not able to execute it, and you’re still living under the roof of your parents’ house. A time shall come when your frustrated life now will become a history to you. As God granted Jabez that which he requested, you’ll break away from the frustration of Satan. By calling on God, we shall be liberated from the grip of Satan’s frustrations.
There was a woman in Luke 13: 10-16. This woman had suffered paralysis. She’d been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years. Christ called her “daughter of Abraham.” Thus, she was a true believer, but Satan did not want her to be well. She was always found in the synagogue. She never allowed her condition to preclude her from worshiping God, until Christ met her, and commanded Satan out of her. She was then loosed from the bondage of Satan. Thus, people who have been in the bondage for many years, a bondage that doesn’t allow them to be healthy and prosperous all the time will only receive deliverance from Christ. May you receive this deliverance of God now in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The question is, how is Satan frustrating your life now? Are you still going through the oppressive nature of Satan’s frustration? I want you to raise your hands up, surrender your problems to Christ and pray:By the mercy of God, and his Son who died to redeem me, today you Satan frustrating my life, marriage, academics, business, and career, I command you by the authority of Jesus Christ to wither and leave my life. I reject all your evil plans against me. Whatever you’ve taken from me be restored in Jesus’s name. Amen.
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