{"id":14921,"date":"2019-09-08T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:58:09","slug":"forced-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2019\/09\/08\/forced-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14921-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sept-8.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sept-8.mp3\">https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sept-8.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/114\/psa.147.10\">Ps. 147:<sup>10<\/sup><\/a> (NKJV) \u201cHe does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, God puts us in really uncomfortable positions. Years ago, when I finished from the university and preparing to go for my service year, God gave me today\u2019s scripture reference.<!--more--> I had never seen it before until that time. This was during the period when the terminology \u201cusing leg\u201d was very popular. To \u201cuse leg\u201d means to use connections to influence things in your favour. I was thrilled to find that it was in the Bible. However, when God speaks, you take time to find out what He is actually saying and how it applies to you now. It was clear to me that it was concerning my youth service, God did not want me to influence my posting.<\/p>\n<p>I agreed to do what God wanted; in my heart I said, \u201cI am confident, O God of heaven, that You will put me in Lagos.\u201d Lagos was the best fit for the course I studied. My family had \u201cleg\u201d and when I was offered the option of influencing my posting, I turned it down because God had spoken to me. When the list was released, I bounced there confidently only to see I had been posed to Adamawa [a state in Northern Nigeria]. I almost fainted. \u201cWhat! Where is that?\u201d I went back to God, \u201cLord, You know that this thing does not work like this.\u201d At that time, there were no computers up north and to spend a whole year there would mean being out of touch with the world. But God said, \u201cI do not delight in the legs of men.\u201d It was a difficult place, God was putting me down.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I went back to my family to check if the offer was still on the table because I was now ready to accept it. So, calls were made, and I was to go and pick up a letter in Abuja. The Holy Spirit kept saying, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d At that point no one really wants to hear God\u2019s voice. In fact, you most likely would be saying to God, \u201cLet me fix this and then I will come back to You.\u201d So, I went to Abuja to pick up the letter, that journey itself is a story for another day. I took the letter back to the director in Adamawa to get redeployed to Lagos. Just as it was getting to my turn to see the director, a lady walked up to me and said, \u201cYou want to get redeployed?\u201d \u201cWhy won\u2019t people just mind their business?\u201d I thought. She continued, \u201c\u2026 and you call yourself a Christian?\u201d and left.<\/p>\n<p>How did she know I was a Christian? That was the end, I got up, tore the letter and I went to serve. But in retrospect, the work God did in my life in that year, what He fed me that year has not expired till date. It is unbelievable, the journey He took me in the spirit in that year, I could never have attained it in Lagos. I was literarily in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong>: Father, please do not let me wander away from my green pastures, compel me to lie down and feast in the green pastures You have prepared for me, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ps. 147:10 (NKJV) \u201cHe does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.\u201d Sometimes, God puts us in really uncomfortable positions. Years ago, when I finished from the university and preparing to go for my service year, God gave me today\u2019s scripture reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,193,65,324,322,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confidence","category-family","category-favour","category-god","category-gods-voice","category-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16023,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14921\/revisions\/16023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}