YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD OUTSIDE HIS PRESENCE: Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide

BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA 
(Int'l Director Of Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide) 

DATE: 
SATURDAY JULY 27, 2019 

TEXT: 
PHILEMON 1:10-18 

KEY VERSE: 
Exodus 33:15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me,  carry us not up hence.  

Many people are running their ministry ahead of God due to lack of  patience Mand the deceit  of  Satan.  Can you actually outrun God? 

What result do you expect to get when you run your ministry outside the specification of  God? 

It is like when a students sits for a class exam in under the supervision of  an invigilator but the student chooses to sit for the exam in a different  classroom out of the view of the invigilator. Who will collect your paper?  

Are you not on your own? Suppose a runner gets off the starting block  before the gun sounds,  who will give him a winner's medal? Pitifully,  there are many people running the Christian race on their own accord. 

Jeremiah 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have  not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 

What is the benefit of your prophecy or ministry when you embark on an assignment that God did not send you? How can that profit you when  God is not involved? 

You embarked on an assignment under another master, so how can your  reward and recognition come from God? 

Onesimus was given a place and a person to work under him; it was  grace that recovered him otherwise,  he had  gone elsewhere like  Jonah. 

Philemon  1:10, 15-18  [10]  I  beseech  thee  for  my  son  Onesimus,  whom  I  have  begotten  in  my  bonds: [11]  Which  in  time  past  was  to  thee  unprofitable,  but  now  profitable  to  thee  and to  me:  [15]  For  perhaps  he  therefore  departed  for  a  season,  that  thou  shouldest receive  him  for  ever;  [16]  Not  now  as  a  servant,  but  above  a  servant,  a  brother beloved,  specially  to  me,  but  how  much  more  unto  thee,  both  in  the  flesh,  and  in the  Lord?  [17]  If  thou  count  me  therefore  a  partner,  receive  him  as  myself.  [18] If  he  hath  wronged  thee,  or  oweth  thee  ought,  put  that  on  mine  account. 

Onesimus left the presence of a great  leader  where God had placed him for service. Rather than  serve diligently, he did evil against his leader and  ran away. 

What a great error! Mercy gave you the right assignment in Holiness Movement but pride, stubbornness, Satan, human pressure  removed  you  from  it. 

May the Lord restore you  back to a great  ministry  as  he  did  for Jonah  and  Onesimus through Paul. 

Thought for the  day:
Don't  attempt  to  run  faster  than  God 

Song for the day:
I want to be like Moses, I want to be like Moses……. to follow Jesus Christ 

Bible reading  for the day:
Psalm 50-52; Acts 27:1-25