EXPECT TO RECEIVE GIFT
The word says, God gives rewards to His chosen one. Reward
means gift. For you to come out of poverty you need gift that is why when God
was taking the Israelites out of Egypt He made them to receive gifts because
they were poor.
Job 42:10-12 “And the Lord restored the fortunes
of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job
twice as much as he had before. 11 Then there came
to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they
ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for
all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them
gave him a piece of money[a] and a gold ring. 12 The Lord blessed
the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand
sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.”
When Job became sick and bankruptcy for a long time, he had to receive gifts for him to become
healthy. So when someone receive gift he/she may become alive again. I remember
when Jacob was told that the gifts are from your son Joseph, his dying spirit
revived.
Genesis 45:25- 28
“So they went up out of Egypt and came to
their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. 26 And
they told him, “Joseph is still alive! He is even ruler over all the land of
Egypt.” He was stunned; he could not believe them. 27 But
when they told him all the words of Joseph that he had said to them, and when
he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father
Jacob revived. 28 Israel said, “Enough! My son
Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.”
Faith is what opens up a door for gifts. It was gifts that
supported the Ministry when I started. The word says without faith you cannot
please God and so you cannot receive gifts. Your expectation is what causes you
to receive gifts. What are you expecting? This means God give gifts to those
who seek Him. If you can do that you will see how God does His work. If a
person believes in failure, then failure will come to him/ her quickly. In
Christ we remain in victory, but outside Him we remain in failure.
Your expectations cannot harm you because it is your faith
and your faith gives you gift which is your success. These gifts are brought to
you and you don’t go to them. The function of gift is to solve a problem which
is before you and make you happy. Even our salvation, the Holy Spirit, marriage
and children are gifts (grace) from God.
It is good to ask for the possible expectations. When you
pray look at what God has promised to those who loves Him. You cannot ask to
become white while you are black. Ask God to create in you a true and real
faith.
Hebrews 11:1, 6 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped
for, the conviction of things not seen. 6 And
without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him
must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
Swahili Translation:
TARAJIA KUPOKEA ZAWADI
Neno linasema Mungu huwapa wateule wake thawabu. Thawabu
maana yake ni zawadi. Ili utoke kwenye ufukara unahitaji zawadi, ndio maana
Mungu alipowatoa wana wa Israel Misri, walikuwa fukara, akafanya wapewe zawadi.
Ayubu 42: 10 - 12 " Kisha Bwana akaugeuza uteka wa
Ayubu, hapo alipowaombea rafiki zake; Bwana naye akampa Ayubu mara mbili kuliko
hayo aliyokuwa nayo kwanza. Ndipo wakamwendea nduguze wote, waume kwa wake, nao
wote waliojuana naye hapo zamani, wakala chakula pamoja naye katika nyumba yake
nao wakamlilia na kumtuliza moyo katika habari za huo uovu wote Bwana aliouleta
juu yake; kila mtu akampa fedha, na pete ya dhahabu kila mmoja. Basi hivyo
Bwana akaubariki huo mwisho wa Ayubu kuliko mwanzo wake........."
Ayubu alipofilisika na kuugua sana kwa muda mrefu, ili apate
afya njema alipewa zawadi; kumbe mtu akipewa zawadi anaweza akafufuka.
Nakumbuka Yakobo alipotaka kufa, alipoambiwa kuwa hizi zawadi zimetoka kwa
mwanao Yusufu, alifufuka.
Mwanzo 45: 25 - 28 " Wakatoka Misri, wakafika nchi ya
Kanaani kwa Yakobo, baba yao. Wakampasha habari, wakisema Yusufu angali hai;
naye ndiye mtawala katika nchi yote ya Misri......."
Imani ndiyo inayofungulia zawadi, nilipoanza Huduma, zawadi
ndizo zilizotegemeza kazi. Neno linasema pasipo imani haiwezekani kumpendeza
Mungu kwa hiyo huwezi kupata zawadi. Matarajio ndio yanayosababisha kupokea
zawadi. Je, unatarajia nini? Maana yake Mungu huwapa zawadi wale wamtafutao,
ukiweza kufanya hayo utaona jinsi Mungu anavyotenda kazi yake. Mtu akiamini
kushindwa ndani yake, kushindwa kunamjia kwa upesi. Ndani yake Kristo tunadumu
katika kushinda, lakini nje yake tunadumu katika kushindwa.
Matarajio yako hayawezi kukuumiza kwa sababu ndio imani yako
na imani yako inakupa zawadi ambayo ni mafanikio yako. Zawadi hizi unaletewa,
sio unazifuata. Kazi ya zawadi ni kutatua tatizo lililoko mbele yako na
kukufurahisha. Maana hata wokovu wetu, Roho Mtakatifu, ndoa na watoto tulionao
ni zawadi ( neema) toka kwa Mungu.
Ni vizuri kuomba matarajio yanayowezekana. Unapoomba,
angalia yale ambayo Mungu ameahidi kuwapa wale wampendao. Mfano, huwezi kuomba
uwe mzungu wakati wewe ni mweusi. Muombe Mungu akuumbie imani iliyokweli na
halisi.
Waebrania 11: 1, 6 " Basi imani ni kuwa na hakika ya
mambo yatarajiwayo, ni bayana ya mambo yasiyoonekana. (6) Lakini pasipo imani
haiwezekani kumpendeza Mungu; kwa maana mtu amwendeaye Mungu; lazima aamini
kwamba yeye yuko, na kwamba huwapa thawabu wale wamtafutao."
©Servant of God Presiding Apostle Josephat Elias Mwingira, Efatha Church.
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