It’s Not About You!

“Didn’t I say …that you would do this, Lord? …You are eager to turn back from destroying people. Just kill me now, Lord! I’d rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen.” The Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry about this?” Jonah 4:2-4

It really is not about you or me but about God and what He is doing. For some of us, this is all we need to hear today. After God delivered me and taught me this lesson, I could pray and people that were dying would come back to life and it didn’t mean anything to me. You know why it didn’t mean anything to me? I knew it wasn’t because of my prayers. I just did what I had to do and God did what He had to do. If you don’t understand this and you get released into the power of the Holy Spirit, it can kill you because your human mind will begin to think that it had something to do with you. When God dealt with me, I knew it had nothing to do with me. So this person that is now healed could have died like the other person. God says ‘I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy’. Now when I pray and something happens, I just look up and say well done. I acknowledge it is God and not me.

Be careful how you beat yourself up when things are not working because you will be tempted to take the glory when things begin to work. This may be all you need to know today. So I will repeat it for emphasis. Be careful, when you have done what you are supposed to do and things do not work. Be careful how you blame yourself because when things begin to work, if you blame yourself successfully, inevitably you will credit yourself a little bit. And God will not share His glory with anybody. So He will have to take you through a route to show you that it is not by power nor by might but by the Spirit of the Lord. How God is going to do what He will do and He alone can do is not our responsibility. Your responsibility is to do what you should do then wait – deploy the four ‘P’s’ of waiting. I have stopped worrying myself about how God will bring things to pass. In Exodus 14, God said to Moses lift up your rod, Moses lifted up his rod and the red sea parted. Was it Moses’ responsibility to part the red sea? In exodus 17, in the battle of Amalek as long as Moses’ rod was lifted up, the children of Israel experienced victory. How does lifting up the rod translate to winning the battle, does that make sense? God is God and I am not!

Prayer [song]: You are not a god created by human hands. You are not a god dependent on any mortal man. You are not a god in need of anything we can give. By Your plan, that’s just they way it is. You are God alone from before time began…