Take care of the house of God, and then God will take care of your problems and lift you up!

Greetings to you, precious children of God, on the pages of „Daily Word for Spiritual Edification”! I hope and pray that these encounters encourage and inspire you.

During the past several days we have talked about how we can earn God’s promotion. Every one of us desires promotion whether we talk about it or not. And there is nothing wrong with it! But true promotion comes into a person’s life when he follows God’s principles.

God sends this word for a particular purpose – to exalt every one of His children because He loves everyone the same way. I hope God lifts us up to a new level spiritually and materially. But first, the truth must be recorded in our hearts. This truth needs to be established in us to keep and guard our hearts.

Pray and ask God to show you the situations where you have mistreated people and then repent. New opportunities and new doors cannot be opened for us until we repent of our sins. If you have had a row with a loved one, then your repentance will help you to restore your relationship. If you have rejoiced over someone’s failure, repent of it and then pray for this person.

This is a very serious matter. Many things we have talked about over the past few days are prophetic. My goal is not to impress you, but to communicate God’s message to you. Ask God to forgive you. Promise Him to be a doer of His Word; commit that you won’t rejoice over the failures of your enemies. Ask God to help your enemies so that they can come in touch with His will.

Help comes from God! The level we are on right now is not the limit of what God has intended for our life. He has prepared some heights for you. He has come to lift up, to heal, and to put together what has been broken. May success come into every area of your life! The promotion comes not because of your efforts, but because of God’s love. May God take away our shame!

May God’s Spirit helps us to take into consideration what we have heard and then our lives will change and we will experience exaltation. God will test you to see whether you are worthy of His exaltation at the moment or not. This is the time of your testing. Be careful! Do not get prideful! What God has planned to do is a lot more than you can see, and soon enough it will become obvious. It will be a visible success. It will be so much more than what you have today.

God always tests those He wants to exalt. Not long ago He gave me a very important word: «When we have a problem we go to Him. When He has a problem He comes to us. He also has problems from time to time. God has no flesh and it also is a problem. We are His flesh, and He has made His abode within us. And if you have not given your body over to Him, He has a problem. God tells us to take care of the things He needs to get done in His house, and when we do that He takes care of our things.»

Some of us won’t ever need to pray for our problems; all we need to do is take care of His problems. If you spend all your time thinking about your needs and wishes and forget about His, then don’t expect Him to solve your problems. Therein lies the test. God’s house will always be the testing ground for God’s people. Prophet Haggai says that since people were only concerned with their own problems and the house of God was in ruins, people weren’t successful in their lives.

«Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” (..)”You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house» (Haggai, 1:3-4,9).

Take care of the house of God, and then God will take care of your problems and lift you up!

God bless you abundantly! Peace be to you!

Pastor Rufus Ajiboye