What is the greatest challenge people have?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4: 6 KJV

What is the greatest challenge that people have and they want God to solve? You as a person what is your greatest challenge? For some people their challenge(s) are those things others may take for granted or things that may seem simple to us all. These challenges can be any of the following but not limited to them.

1. Mental challenge
2. Financial challenge
3. The right network
4. Lack of equity, fairness and rule of law in the land
5. Insecurity and fear
6. Feeding 
7. Lack of hope
8. Lack of leadership in the home and the nation 
9. Lack of love and will

Is there a solution to these challenges that we are faced with on a daily on continuous basis? Is there a solution to lack of leadership and corruption in the nation? Is there a solution to a lack of equity and fairness? Fist of all are the problems solvable and if they are what are the solutions?

• Enforcing laws and punishing evil that are perpetrated by the institution 
• Accountability 
• Responsibility to oneself and the community
• Leading through the Holy Spirit

All of the above are problems that we see from our human perspectives. The problem we have as a people and as a nation is not knowing what God is saying concerning our situation. Hosea 4: 6 says “my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”. The one and most important thing we lack is knowledge.

There is a way out to every challenge we are faced with today. We are to be like the sons of Issachar (1 Chronicles 12: 32) who understood the times and knew what Israel should do.
Ask God today to fill you with His knowledge; that He should speak to you and show you what you should do for yourself and for your family. Speak to Him with respect to the particular situation that is a problem in your life.

And then…….. Fear God!

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Malachi 4: 2-3 KJV

Fear not! Many people live in fear. People are just generally afraid. Why? Some it as a result of what has happened in their past, some are afraid because of what is happening in their present life, some are afraid because they don’t know what the future hold for them. The bible tells us not to be afraid, He asks us to not dwell in fear or on those things that make us afraid.

Psalm 30: 5 says that though weeping may endure through the night but joy comes in the morning. No matter what we go through in life there is always that period when the sun shall rise and shine in your life. 

We have a father that cannot fail, why are you afraid? We have a father that lifts up and nobody can pull down, a father who can open a door and no one can close, a father who is all knowing and all seeing; why are you afraid? God makes a way where there is no way.

God alone can turn things around and make ways for us, therefore we need not live in fear. If we focus on God we will realize that God has and will continue to do great things for us and in our life. We don’t have any reason to live in fear; rather than give the enemy power over our life through our fears, let us fear God because it is He alone who can kill and no one can save.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. When we are afraid we cannot move forward because the fear we have will continue to hold us back and hold us down. The fear of God opens us up to doing things right and living right. When we fear God and have the reverence for Him that should go to Him then our life will be a testament.

Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.  Psalm 128:1 & 2. KJV. When we fear God (and not the circumstances of our life) we will be blessed. God gives us the strength to see Him in everything we do and happens in our life.

It doesn’t matter what you are going through in life, it doesn’t matter what the past is. What matters most is that we give our reverence, respect and obedience to God who is Lord and father above all. Everything that we see and do is by the grace of God. It is by His grace that we sleep and wake up from our sleep, it is by His grace that we are able to speak see and do all those things that we do each day. Why then must we focus on the things going wrong around us?

What we must do is focus on God and on everything that He says to us through His word; it is only through this that we will have wisdom. It is this wisdom that He gives to those that fear Him which gives us dominion over every situation in life; whether past, present or the future.

Jesus is saying to you today; be not afraid for I am with you. Jesus Christ is with us every step of the way and in everything we do, at all times. We must recognize that He alone is the almighty God, Bigger than our pain and the situation we are in.

It is human to be afraid but when we allow that fear to rule our life and how we react to the things in our life, then we need to turn to God and give those fears to Him. He alone can overcome and bring relief from whatever is causing the fear in our hearts.

What Does the Lord Require of Thee?

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? Deut. 10: 12-13 KJV

Moses was speaking to the children of Israel, telling them that this life is very simple. If we can walk with God and be obedient to His word, we will find out that life is very simple. Moses had lied in Egypt for 40 years and led the children of Israel for another 40 years. In all of this journey. he found out that the life we should live must be simple. 

The simplicity of life is hinged on an overlying principle; which is the bedrock of Christianity. They that love God must imbibe this principle as seen in Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." The bible says the memory of the righteous is everlasting. We are to worship him, serve him regardless of the situation, with all our hearts, keeping his commandment in all situations. Obedience to God and his words is for our own good. If we refuse to serve God, it doesn't change who he is. It doesn't take away anything from him. We have to take time to know God, to worship him and to honour him. This is the way we can proper. We turn our own desire and our own control into our gods. We also seek out gods that would tolerate all manners of misbehavior and sin. We expect to serve God and expect to eat our cake and have it. 

When Moses went up into the mountain, the children of Israel sought to make a convenient god for themselves. They made a god out of that which they took out of Egypt and on completion proclaimed the image as the god that took them out of Egypt. God cannot be boxed into an image.

Man has over complicated life and living. We begin to seek things beyond and outside God. The things we do in our youth will be evident at the time of old age. God telling us to live right is not for himself but it is to preserve our lives when we have become old. In the bible, there are laws of diet and daily living that we should follow. If we follow them, we will not fall sick. 

When we begin to fear God, we begin to have knowledge and understanding. If we do not fear God sufficiently, we open ourselves to lack and not having enough and sometimes we may even be faced with sudden death. "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?" Acts 5:3 KJV. We don't fear God today because of many things and we seem to get away with it but at the end we would face the consequences. 

 

We have to respect God because He can move at any time and act at any time. We do not need to wait for instances like that of Ananias and Sapphira before we fear God. 

Make up your mind that in your home, family, business and all, that you will fear God. Make up your mind that you will do your best to do things that please God. Make up your mind to fear God. Make up your mind "to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord".