(Second part)
Memory verse (John10: 10) “ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly ”.
Satan is a thief, and that what he lives to do daily. He steals believers’ peace, joy, love, patience, kindness, humility, prayer life, wisdom, word of God, faith, lives, health, salvation etc. Satan has stolen a lot of treasures from the church of Christ. You enter many churches and it’s so boring, so cold, so religious, no love, no life any longer, no joy of the Lord, no joy of salvation. You enter God’s house and all you find is rules and legalism, hypocrisy and traditions of men, title and positions yet no power of God. The god of this world has come into the temples of God and has stolen all God’s treasures out God’s house, because many of us have turned away from following the Lord. We have lost our first love for God. We have stopped seeking his kingdom and his righteousness.
We have lost hunger and thirst for spiritual and heavenly things. The lust for material and worldly things has prostituted us against our loving father. We stopped spending time with him in worship and fellowship. Our hearts are far away from him. Many are serving him with our fleshly effort but our hearts are far from him. Many are worshipping him with our lips but the hearts are far from him. The traditions of men have become our doctrines instead of God’s word of life. The robber Satan has broken into God’s house of prayer and he has stolen everything precious and he has put every wicked thing in God’s house.
It is time every one of us, dear ones, to examine our lives like what we see in (Rev3 & 3). What are the treasures that Satan has stolen from your life, is it your purity, is it your prayer life, is it your holiness, is it your hunger and thirst for God, is it the anointing of God, is your intercession, is it your time in God’s word, is it the gifts of the Holy Spirit, is it your spiritual sensitivity? It is time to get back what Satan has stolen from God’s house. We no longer see the glory of the Lord in the church; it’s the treasures in the house that makes it glorious. It’s the power of God, the anointing of God, the prayerfulness, the holiness, the hunger and thirst for God, the love of God, the true worship in spirit and truth, the miracles, signs and wonders that made the early church a powerful and glorious church. These are the same things that will make your life powerful, effective and glorious.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ Getting back God’s word in his house ”
