Galatians 6:9 ‘And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.’

DAILY READING; • 1 Corinthians 13; 2 Kings 7:3-20; Jonah 2

For over 150 years, Foreign Christian missionaries tried unsuccessfully to convert the Masai people of Kenya. The Masai people are a semi-nomadic ethnic group who were bound in age-old traditions of worship of a volcano.
However, one of the people God used to finally break through to them with the light of the Gospel, was a warrior from their own tribe.

In 1986, this former Masai warrior, showed up at a Billy Graham Itinerant Evangelists’ Conference in Amsterdam to tell his amazing story of how he led his people to Christ. This story was later published in Virtue Magazine.
This man, named Joseph, after his conversion, was so excited that he desired to share the good News with his people.
Joseph began going from door to door in his village telling everyone about the amazing news of salvation in Christ. He thought they would be just as excited, but rather the villagers turned against him and became violent. The men held him to the ground while the women beat him with strands of barbed wire. He was dragged from the village and left to die alone in the bush.
Joseph somehow managed to crawl to a water hole and days later, after regaining some strength, he set out again to share the Good News. Again he was beaten by the villagers and his old wounds were reopened. Once more, they dragged him unconscious from the village and left him to die. Miraculously, Joseph survived. But despite being bruised and scarred, he retuned back again to the village to share the good News. This time, they attacked him before he had a chance to open his mouth. As they flogged him, he continued to tell them about Christ, and just before he passed out, the last thing he saw was that the women who were beating him began weeping.
When he finally became conscious, he found himself in his own bed. The people who had so severely beaten him before were now trying to save his life and nurse him back to health.
It so happened that as they beat him the last time, suddenly the people had become overwhelmingly convicted by the Holy Ghost and the entire village came to accept Christ.

Because, he didn’t give up despite the fierce opposition, Joseph’s persistence eventually won over the whole village. Through him the Masai’s age-old resistance to the Gospel was finally broken.
Indeed there is no situation God cannot turn around for us when we stay in faith and remain persistent.
We must refuse to grow weary in our bid to obey God’s will.
Quitters never win and winners never quit and trials will eventually lead to triumphs.

In trying to obey God’s assignment for us, various situations will attempt to knock us down. But refuse to stay down and keep rising and moving in the direction of your call.
Even if people choose to maltreat you, keep sowing the seeds of love.
Especially in these end-times, we must stay strong and be determined to shine the light of the Gospel no matter the cost.

Mathew 5:16 says ‘ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.’

Don’t back down because of the forces that try to stop you.
Don’t become discouraged because you did not see victory or progress today. Be persistent in your zeal and efforts to obey God’s Will. No matter the opposition, your persistence will indeed wear down the resistance.

The judgment of a man’s greatness is not only to be measured in the mission he accomplishes, but in the obstacles he has overcome in the process.
In the journey of life everyone faces challenges. However, in order to succeed, we must have an inner strength and conviction, to keep standing no matter how hard the wind blows.

When the Word of God dwells richly in your heart, it will keep propelling you forward no matter how many times situations try to bring you down.
Indeed your inner forte of faith must be stronger than the outer winds of doubt. What is pushing you forward has to be stronger than what is pushing against you.

In Mathew 7, Jesus tells us that the house that is built on the rock doesn’t fall. Despite the storm, rain, wind, the house built on the rock will keep standing.

That rock is the Word of God. When The Word of God is strong in your heart, you can withstand any challenge.
To succeed in life, we must therefore have the faith to believe, the courage to do and the strength to endure. Truly the Word within us makes us indefatigable. It makes us more than conquerors and winners in all of life’s confrontations.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to never grow weary in doing good and standing for the truth. Through Your Word please empower and strengthen me to successfully run the race set before me this year and indeed end up as a wonder to all in Jesus Name.

QUOTE:
Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222.