THE SEARCHING GOD || Destiny Clinic by Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Destiny fulfilment is not cheap. To fulfill your destiny you have to put more energy into your prayers. The more you pray the more the shine and glory of your destiny will emerge. You can so address the issue of the fulfilment of your destiny to the point when you do not only succeed but you begin to help others fulfill their destinies.
THE CHALLENGE
Here is the greatest challenge of our times. God is looking for those who have dealt squarely with destiny killers and are fulfilled in every sense of the word and subsequently move to the next level where they are agents of positive change.
God is in search of those who have mastered their circumstances and are helping others achieve the same feat.
God is searching for overcomers, not victims of destiny killers.
God is looking for champions who are victorious and have also gone ahead to infiltrate the territory of the enemy to free the captives and help them come out of the dustbin of rubbished destinies.
How wonderful will it be for today’s believers to join the ranks and file of fire brands who have passed God’s tests and are successful candidates in the school of destiny advancement? God has done all He would to make us experience colourful destinies. But the problem is that we lack the required qualities. If God can find what it takes to lead a glorious lifestyle and help others do so, present day believers will shake the world once again.
God is searching for destiny changers. May He find you in Jesus’ name. Amen.
At this point, I want you to pray: Oh thou that troubleth the Israel of my destiny, the God of Elijah shall trouble you today in the name of Jesus.
THE SEARCH
Four Scriptures shall be examined at the outset of this message.
Ezekiel chapter 22 verse 30 is one of the most tragic passages in the scriptures. It says:
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Verse 31: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them: I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.
A single person can deliver a country, an individual can deliver a land, a single person can deliver a family, a single person can deliver a nation, a single worker can deliver an organisation.
God sought for a man who would stand in the gap and prevent wrath or indignation from coming upon the people but alas God did not find anyone. Then what happened? The wrath of God eventually came upon the people because there was no single man to stand in the gap.
The Bible says: “For the eyes of the LORD run to and from throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; therefore from henceforth thou shall have wars” (2 Chron.16:9).
The eyes of God moves throughout the world searching for men and women.
Moreover, the Bible says: “Run ye to and fro through the street of Jerusalem and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgement, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it” (Jeremiah 5 :1).
Again God undertook a search through the city of Jerusalem for a man. “I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to his doings” (Jeremiah 17 :10).
GOD’S GREAT NEED
These are four interesting Scriptures. They may be difficult for very many people to understand because not very many people understand the fact that God has a need. The tragic thing is that many of us look at the hands of God and not at his face. We are much more after what God is ready to give and we do not bother to know His concerns. Therefore it may be difficult for many people of low understanding to comprehend the fact that God is in search of a woman or a man.
The scarcity of the power of God in any generation is never the fault of God. It is the unavailability of man and woman that are usable. Many are available but are not usable. Many are interested in God’s work but He cannot use them because they are unfit for His service.
AVAILABLE BUT NOT USEABLE
In one university campus a sister was pressed and she wanted to’ go to the toilet to ease herself. There were about seven toilet rooms. She opened the first toilet door and saw maggots littering the ground and swimming inside a pool of stagnant water on the floor. She closed the door and went to the second toilet. That one was already overflowing with faeces and the water of the faeces was flowing near to the entrance. She went to the third one and that was filled with swollen up faeces.
The sister went from door to door and by the time she got to the seventh door she was no longer feeling pressed. All the toilet rooms were not usable although they were available. God may have a lot of work to give to people but once the people are not usable, no matter how pressed the Almighty could be He will not give the work out.
THE SPECIAL BREED
There are men and women who weep every day. There are people who earnestly desire that heaven should open for them. They want God to establish a new order among men. These men see what others do not see. When men see things in different perspectives, their approaches to such things will differ. Their reactions will differ. These are men who weep and wet their pillows with tears, they spend sleepless nights in prayers because of the conditions of men and because they know what will eventually happen. They look at the human race and see it in a lamentable movement unto destruction.
All the signs showing that there is danger are there but nobody cares. The perilous times which the Bible talks about are here with us, but nobody cares. Lives are getting destroyed every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes are threatening the existence of humanity, yet nobody cares. Nobody is rising to the challenge of these last days. Only a man who knows the gravity of sin can enter into the strong room of the Almighty with tears and travail and begin to ask for a revival.
SHALLOW CHRISTIANlTY
Many are still struggling to pray and study the word of God at regular times. They are struggling to have personal revival. God is still searching for men who will give up their night rest, their comfort or the things they enjoy most so that they can bring the presence of God down to men. He is looking for men and women who will not rest until heaven opens.
Many present day Christians have no serious concern for anything called revival. Many are pre-occupied with daily work and business, forgetting that although men will die and earthly things will pass away, life continues in heaven or in hell. The company you are working for that does not give you room to serve the Lord will be taken over after your demise. The worldly things and affairs that you give your priorities will not save you when death keeps knocking at your door.
As you move about in the community, in your day-to-day encounter with men, it is very obvious that truth has been relegated to the background. Truth has been dethroned. Falsehood has become the order of the day. Falsehood is enthroned and magnified and it is a very sad development. Adultery and fornication have captured many, including born again Christians. Many brothers and sisters drink fornication like water and they don’t even know that anyone who is living in sin is judging himself anytime he appears before God.
HALLOW PREACHER
Many pastors have left their focus and telling lies has become a light thing to them. In fact, men and women worship lies in this generation. In many of our churches now there are dead preachers, who are preaching dead messages to dead people, preachers who are administering drug tablets to dead personalities. A fornicator is clapping and hailing the pastor and people who are telling lies and stealing and screaming: “Preacher, ride on, preacher preach it.”
There are many preachers and other Christians who are carrying the weapons of warfare but without victory. The sanctuary of God in most places has been converted to the house of deceit. There are mischievous girls and boys who wallow in sins. They call sins new names and they are there in churches. Unfortunately, the present day Christians often accuse the devil as the architect of anything they do wrong. When you wanted to enter into the sins of fornication, was it the devil who removed your
clothes? Was he the one who undressed you? Was he the one that shut the door behind the two of you? Ponder!
Was it the devil who collected money from the sugar daddy? Was it the devil who slept with that man or woman? Many will arrive at the gate of life and the devil will ask them questions which they would not be able to answer.
STARK REALITIES
The diamond of holiness has lost its value even in the house of goldsmiths. Swine now drink from the cup of the holy God. Men are swimming in the-pool of vanity and delusion. Many children of God want to wear the crown without bearing the cross. What a strange generation we have found ourselves in. We have people who want to embrace the blessings of God but avoid the One who blesses. They want the gift of God but they don’t want to get His holiness. They want deliverance but they don’t want to embrace the Healer and the Deliverer. They want protection but they don ‘t want the Protector.
This is a strange generation. I feel very sorry for some Christian sisters and brothers. They do not have charms, familiar spirits or talisman and they are not in witchcraft groups. The only power they are depending on is the power of God. Yet they are committing sin and offending God, thereby causing God to distance Himself from them. With what will these people protect themselves when attacked? The only power available for them is the power of God and yet that they are not meeting up to the standard.
One hundred souls go into hell fire every 30 minutes, yet the believers have not grabbed this truth and the seriousness of the matter. God is looking for dependable, reliable and trustworthy people who will carry the anointing that will affect their generation.
CHRISTLIKE FOLKS
God is looking for men and women whose word is their bound and for people whose hearts are far from iniquity, who do not tell lies in their hearts. Beloved, the lamentation is ‘Can we still find this kind of Christians now?” Somebody who sees his brother in tears should shed tears also. We need those who will have truth without error, whose hearts will be Christ-like.
Can we still find this kind of people, who are revived in their spirits? Righteous people are becoming scarce commodities. The kind of sisters we have these days are those who are busy arguing about Bible standards on dressing.
Can we still find men arid women who live in the presence of the Lord, men and women who have communion with God regularly? Where are men and women who will not compromise with satan? Where are men and women who will not be influenced by money? Can we still find these Christians?
Or can it be that we are moving dangerously towards the question Jesus asked: “When the son of man shall come back to the earth will he find faith on earth?” It is a question He himself never answered.
LET HIM GO
You can be an active church member without really being part of God’s candidates. In God’s sight such a person does not exist. It is possible to be a believer who is abandoned on the shelf and rendered redundant. A lot of people are no longer usable because of increasing stubbornness. When God is tired of struggling with a stubborn child, He gets to the point where He leaves that child alone. The child becomes like Ephraim in the Bible.
The Bible says: “Ephraim has joined himself to idols, leave him alone.” When God says “Leave him alone, let him go,” then the person is finished. God spoke: “My son, it appears your tongue is too sharp” and you did not listen. He spoke: “It appears you are not praying enough,” and you did not listen. If you continue to disregard God’ s voice you may end up being left alone by God. God cannot speak or warn you forever. If you persistently disobey, He may leave you alone.
He says: “This money you are collecting from men will land you in trouble.” A lady does not listen. He says: “You have not been
praying and reading the word of God for quite a number of days.” You do not listen. He speaks further: “Your spiritual temperature
is going down.” You do not listen? If you are not careful the voice will cry: “Leave him alone.”
Imagine some body who is abandoned by God. It is a very terrible thing. It is not how much work you are doing for God that matters, it is the quality of the work. When God discovers that you are not doing the right thing and warns you repeatedly and you continue to disobey. He will abandon you. Many careless Christians are abandoned by God. What I am saying is a warning to many people today. The devil has changed his gear. With the evil speed and with the kind of mechanism he is operating with, many careless souls are in danger.
We need to work harder than we were working in the past. As a pastor, when last has somebody walked to you and said: “I saw the Lord, I saw the rapture. Can you counsel me on how I can move closer to the Lord?” As a pastor, do you still hear the voice of people crying around you: “Lord, whatever you wont me to do I will do it, no matter what it is?” Those cries have gone down.
TRIED BY FIRE
The prevalent cries today are the cries for more of worldly possessions. All these things we are running after are summarized by the Bible as “Vanity upon vanity all is vanity.” Many believers fail to recognize sin and its consequences or penalties. We are gradually losing the zeal for reaching out to the lost. You may be in the good book of the pastor but the question is, is your name in the book of life?
The Bible says: “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, previous stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire Shall try every man’s work of what sort it is’ (1 Cor. 3:12,13).
Fire will test the quality of the work you perform. It will test the quality and not the quantity. The scripture speaks of the real value of the work of man it could be gold, silver, precious stone, wood, hay, and stubble. How can you say you are a believer? Are you truly baptised in the Holy Ghost? Are you sanctified? Is your life not dirty? Is your heart clean? You need to allow God to shake you and revive your life.
ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE
You need to run away from every activity and power of sin. You need to cry out to God in prayer that you must grow. Many Samson have been shaven because they slept demonic sleep. It was sleep that made Samson to lose his virtue and power. Through the sleep Samson put others in trouble.
Beloved, a time is coming when the word ‘mercy’ will be erased and forgotten for ever. But there is still mercy now. According to the book of Revelation, the time of mercy will be gone one day. Many come to the church to socialise. Many come to the church because they are in search of protection from the their enemies. Men must come to the church to discover God’s agenda for them and what God wants them to do with their lives.
There is a time in the life of man when the days of opportunity would have gone. The Bible says: “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them” (Rev. 9:6).
If you fail to heed God’s voice today, you will discover that the day of mercy will give way for the day of judgment. Men will desire to die but death will say “No, you cannot die you must face the penalties of your sins.” Now is the day of mercy. Make haste before the door of mercy is closed. It is, indeed, challenging that the saints who livid on earth during Bible days had the same access to the Bible. They had no Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, Dakes Bibles, Bible concordance, Matthew Henry commentary or Life Application Bibles yet they had a better understanding of God’s word. We have everything today but we lack the power of God.
THE LOST WEAPON
Today God has called many people to put right what the enemy has upset. God has called many into the fold to usher in the greatest revival in history. God has called many to rescue families. God has called men and women to become His mouth piece. But many people are too busy to heed His call. Why are many relegating kingdom matters to the background? Why are many running helter skelter for the things that are of little or no value? Why can’t you seek the kingdom of God first and then see what God will do?
I once read an interesting story about Napoleon, the great warrior. One night, he was taking a walk around where his soldiers were gathering. There was a soldier who was supposed to be watching over a particular place. Napoleon discovered that the soldier had slept off with his mouth whistle falling out and he was snoring.
Napoleon stood by his side for about five minutes, looking at him. Here was a soldier who was supposed to protect his nation. Napoleon took his gun and put it under his armpit and stamped his feet on the floor. The young soldier woke up from slumber, looked around for his gun and could not find it. He looked up and Saw Napoleon starring at him. He knew that the game was up for him.
This, I am afraid, would be the position of many today. The enemy has stolen their weapons of war. They are just making noise and the noise does make any impact on the enemy. The enemy knows those who are making an empty noise and those who are terrors to him and to his agenda. He knows those who have given up their weapons at the feet of Delilah. He knows those who have lost their weapons by stealing moneys that do not belong to them. He knows those whose hands are dirty. Some hands are so dirty that if laid on the sick nothing will happen.
Many are like the careless young soldier. They wake up from sleep and discover that their weapons of warfare are gone. Many are sleeping at their duty post. This is sad.
DIVINE CONTROVERSY
God has a controversy with present day Christians. I cannot imagine how we can get out of this situation unless we change our ways. Jesus was arrested as a criminal because of you and I. They came with sticks, stones and lanterns, arrested Him, tied him up, bound Him and stripped Him naked. They mocked Him and spat upon Him. They slapped him. With His hands tied, they took
away His garment and shared it among themselves. They wounded Him and condemned Him unjustly. They ridiculed His mission. They made jest of Him. They nailed Him on the hands and on the feet. He suffered excruciating pain. They pierced him with arrows at his Side, all because of you and I.
Do you think that Jesus who suffered So that we can be saved will see us doing the wrong thing and be happy? The Lord told me that men and women who were brought into the church are meant to be prophets and prophetess are busy playing games. I am amazed that men and women who come to church every Sunday and lift up their hands unto God in praises and thanksgiving, still cling to their pet sins.
CARRIERS OF POWER
Sin has entangled many hearts like a serpent. The longer a person remains in sin the more the sin gets hold of him. Every besetting sin has a decaying and destroying power. Sin never dies of itself. If you do not uproot and destroy it, it will only become a snare! Why not pray: “O Lord, if there is any sin in me deal with it. I don’t want to be a cast away.”
God is searching for people who will become carriers of His power in this generation. He needs people who will represent Him where they are. He needs those who will call His fire down wherever they see themselves. God is in search of people who will completely pray for the elimination of iniquities from their hearts. He wants those who will weep days and nights in prayer for power from above. He searches for those who understand the principles of spiritual priorities and who know that the enemy is gaining advantage over them because they are not yet what God meant them to be.
ARE YOU READY?
Are you among those whom God wants to use? There are many sisters who are so worldly minded and are so deep in sins that are cleverly hidden. There are so many brothers who are committing terrible sins in their offices thinking that nobody is seeing them. As long as they continue in these sins their expiry dates are getting closer and their functions will be transferred to others, and they will be out of the stage of play.
God transfers functions because He cannot allow a vacuum in his programme. Are you one of the oracles of God who has become a parrot? Ask the Lord to search you and bring you out of any evil journey and put your feet on the right course. Pray that God will transform your life today. With a transformed life, your destiny will be fulfilled.
PRAYER POINTS
- The Goliath of powerlessness working about in the garden of my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Every enemy of the kingdom of God in my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
- My spirit man, catch the fire of God, in the name of Jesus.
- Holy Ghost fire, incubate my life, in the name of Jesus.
- Any power that does not want God to use me, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Unstoppable power, come upon me now, in the name of Jesus.
- Fire of the power room, incubate me now, in the name of Jesus.
