Many Christians are seasoned veterans at whooping at their televisions when their team scores that winning touchdown. But few Christians these days are adept at whooping heavenward when God does His God-thing and saves the day down here on earth. What would happen if we flipped this thing around and began to celebrate the goodness, the faithfulness, and the victory of God as we ought?
As believers, we find ourselves constantly engaged in this life/death face-off with the powers of darkness. And if we as believers are going to prove victorious in our stand-off with this ancient foe, we need to know how to call our enemy’s bluff and keep our left tire on the white center line.
This message is a mix between a tribute to the extraordinary man and a spiritual exhortation gleaned from precious words spoken before he passed.
If we truly and genuinely believe our God to have defeated the powers of Hell, then let’s prove it by flipping into the Kembu Vam.
Dogs have a special way of revealing to us dimensions of the Kingdom of Heaven that are hard to comprehend otherwise. But, the reason they demonstrate these astounding qualities is in order that we might be stirred by the Spirit of God to say, “Lord, make me dogged, just like that!”
The American church seems prone to melting in the day of battle instead of rising up strong and courageous…