27/03/2023
YOU DON'T NEED TO GROW TO DO THESE!
- Steve Onaji.
This is what someone needs NOW, to START manifesting or experiencing the power of God immediately - if he or she can read this carefully and again.
Spiritual growth does not follow natural timing, you can grow instantly - NOW.
Naturally speaking, growth is a process of increase in size, number, value or strength.
Spiritually speaking, growth is an act of submission to God and faith in God.
And can happen NOW!
The greatest thing that can happen to a man is to be born again; to be saved, to be born of the Spirit, to be a new creature.
Interestingly, something this unimaginable can happen instantly - by simply submitting to God through faith; believing and confessing.
Some may never till they die - not that they didn't grow. They just didn't believe.
I was discussing with someone concerning operating in the supernatural, like healing the sick, casting out devils and others. That you don't need to "grow" to do these and the person said, "...I believe you have to grow like 10 years in God (like in dimensions and some deep things) to operate in those things."
I understand!
That mindset held me down for years - trying to grow, whereas God was waiting for me to believe.
We just want to grow without checking what really growth means in Christ - we define it naturally.
Let's check the document the master Jesus gave us before releasing us - the mandate,
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He who BELIEVES and is baptized will be saved; but he who does NOT BELIEVE will be condemned.
And these signs will follow those who BELIEVE: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
(Mark 16:15-18)
Check carefully, aside BELIEVING, what else is needed?
Do you need to grow to be saved?
Do you need to grow to speak in tongues?
Do you need to grow to be saved from poison?
Why then do you need to grow to cast out devils or do other supernatural things?
How many of the disciples of Jesus that he sent to do these things who came back with testimonies were grown?
How many were men of stature?
Even Judas Iscariot did these things.
They only believed and obeyed, they went - they moved (I will write on this on my post on Facebook soon).
What can be as supernatural as salvation?
We got saved instantly!
Everything made available by the Cross of Jesus can be accessed INSTANTA - faster than your internet products.
Only believe,
Only believe,
All things are possible,
Only believe.
(Like we used to sing)
But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, saying, “Do not be afraid; only believe, and she will be made well.”
(Luke 8:50)
Do you want even someone else to be made well? Only believe!
Says the Lord Jesus.
What some of us call process or growth is fear; fear to take action.
And I could hear Jesus saying to you, "Do not be afraid; only believe"
Only believe!
If I do it and it doesn't work, my confusion would be if really I believe, because God cannot lie.
He says, "only believe".
Don't give me Greek explanation, just help me know how to believe.
Maybe I was "trying to see if it works" not doing and see it work.
Do we need to grow naturally speaking? definitely yes!
Years could pass away while you try to believe.
You need to grow to a point where you can believe, but you can believe now.
You need to grow to where you can forgive easily, but you can submit to the Holy Spirit NOW.
Anything that can affect your walk with God, even as bad as taking you to hell is an emergency case that has urgent solution for in Christ.
You can choose to grow to stop fornication, but you can present your body to God NOW.
You can live in purity, even NOW!
You can live above that addiction, even NOW!
It doesn't depend on God, but on you to believe and submit, even NOW!
"NOW faith IS"
Not faith will be.
If it is by faith, it can be NOW.
Natural process may catch up with Spiritual things, but does not mean it depends on natural process.
It may take you 10 years to become a kind of man God can make you become a day - EVEN NOW.
Many have been shocked to see people they "senior in faith" do what tool them natural years to achieve.
God is no respecter of years, but answer to your faith.
Many have kept others bound with this testimonies of "years of growth".
Some just want to be " the elder brother".
This is why "elders brothers" are always angry for the sons that make demands for their inheritance now.
The father can give you that ring of authority now. Like in the story of the prodigal son.
Of course, honour elders, but don't subject your faith to someone's years of process.
I have been thinking and searching but couldn't find something in the spirit that would legally require natural years to achieve - but couldn't find.
Help me with them.
Someone's testimony of achieving some things after 10 years or more could be 10 years of personal struggle with the works of the Holy Spirit in them.
There are areas in our lives the Lord has been dealing with us for years now and still has not succeeded in having us submit our will. When we finally do, we may choose to share our testimony as our "years of growth" - but the Lord would have done it a day, if only we submitted early.
You could spend more years in Gethsemane before you submit to God's will, or days or now.
Your journey from Egypt to Canaan does not depend on years in the wilderness - unbelief could elongate your years.
Some even died in the wilderness (process).
Our natural self is a limitation to the supernatural expressions of God in our lives.
If only we can submit.
Never think that because it took you years means it depends on years - some spent more years, lived and died and never walked in those dimensions with God - they never believed or never submitted their will.
Some believe, but believe it can happen in the future.
Like Martha, she believed Jesus can raise the dead, but in the future.
And Jesus had to 'preach' to her, "I AM the resurrection" - not I WILL but I AM.
Beloved, I wish you could only believe.
My prayer is to submit to God to do everything he can do with me EVEN NOW!
I don't need to tarry for that power, if it can come upon me now!
The Holy Ghost has come!
Beloved, we were saved by faith (Spiritually), how then do we want to be perfected by the flesh (naturally).
Like Paul would ask, "Who has bewitched you?
Apostle Paul asked the Galatian brethren,
"Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?"
Someone lamented recently, "the more I listen to these messages (that teach you need "more" dimensions to operate in certain things that Jesus can do), the more I feel unworthy and not ready enough"
Although, sometimes, the misunderstanding is from the angle of a listener. Or the limitation of a preacher for being able to say only thing at a time and a listener who listens to only one kind of messages always.m without listening to other parts.
Beloved, yes, there is a cubit more in God, but doesn't depend on natural number of years - if you can submit NOW.
Go for more - but it's at the speed of how you believe in God (from your heart - not from your head).
Jesus can NOW!
Yes, keep growing, but what can Jesus do with you NOW?
Lord! am ready for whatever you can do with Steve Onaji NOW!
Even NOW!
Jesus is same yesterday, TODAY and forever.
You could choose to believe him for what he did in the past or what he can do in future or what is can and doing NOW.
I serve the Jesus of TODAY!
In my day!
"Give me this day!"
He can use me mightily today!
Even NOW!
I believe, there is no limitation in and with God!
There is nothing God cannot do!
There is no boundary to what God can do!
I believe in His Almightiness!
Even NOW!
Beloved, our greatest prayer when it comes to this is, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
(Mark 9:23-24)
Yes I know all things are possible!
I believe “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
I am a believer!
But Lord, help my unbelief!
There is nothing you cannot do Protocol Breaker!
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
Only believe!
I believe!
