Power belongs to our GOD!

  Sincerely speaking, there is a great need as to why we must sign into the leadership at all spheres. The Christians must understand that the effects leadership could force on us particularly and in the entire world is demandingly triggering to wrong directions. 

That is why you must collectively work hard to correct it by your involvement into all leadership arenas at its widths and length. 

For if Christians don’t work harder to correct and change this world from godless leaderships, it will surly and smartly contagion unfaithful deeds in our systems and we will be loathed by the Almighty God—we will find ourselves fighting against Him too. You must know very well that power belongs to our GOD.

 He said, “¹¹God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God” (Ps.62:11). And again,⁷For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. ⁸God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. ⁹The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of theGod of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted. (Ps. 47: 7-9). Thus, says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool.

 Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? ²For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word. (Isaiah 66: 1-2 NKJV). When the people repent and return back from backslidings and acknowledge the LORD in their ways and become faithful to GOD with their whole hearts, the LOR will give them the right leaders—leaders after His own heart who will build their Nation and feed the people with knowledge. Jeremiah, the Hebrew prophet has this to says:¹⁴"Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. ¹⁵And I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 

Remember, God has never been very well glorified by any leaderships of non-God-fearing people apart from His own Sons and daughters (Faithful ones). Even in the Old Testament, myriad lessons are there concerning God’s loathing non-God-fearing Kingdoms ruled by their wicked kings whose hearts were uncircumcised from the worship of idols. He (God) didn’t stop there, but he commanded his Servants (Hebrews kings) to destroy those kingdoms down. Hebrew King David was named “a man after God’s heart” after he slew ten thousand from the heathens (Palestine). The kinship of God did not stop there in those eras,God revealed it in a dream to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in a vision interpreted by Daniel. In the interpretation, Daniel said that after the kingdoms of Nebuchadnezzar, there would be three more kingdoms before last kingdom.

 And the last kingdom has these quotes “a stone is thrown by an unseen hand and destroyed all those kingdoms, and the stone grew and became the dominant kingdom throughout all the ages”. Daniel concluded that that it was the kingdom of the Son of Man (Messiah). You see? But there is important thing I want to elaborate on it. 

The teaching on ‘salvation of God,’ the real meaning therein must not be hijacked used only for one reason like maybe from “spiritual death” or of “going to heaven”. I am saying this to those who are striving and preaching God’s salvation, specifically normal Christians, pastors, bishops who believed that the salvation of God is only for them. God is not only obligated to render protection to casual spiritual worshippers whose services are songs, hymns, tithing and so on—rather it is for all those who are striving for GOD’s common courses. 

Both everlasting life and salvation are for every man and woman who has genuinely believed in Christ Jesus and honestly serving God’s Creations in devotion, clean heart and responsive to God’s ways. You must know that secular power belongs to the Almighty GOD, because He used leaders to take away reproaches FROM their society. King David was the right example; he slew the Palestine’s gain Goliath, who shamelessly defied the army of the living God. With very small weapon, he (David) slew his foe, this is to say that the leader doesn’t need strange powers in order fight with, but any available things within his reach. 

Leaders are determined, no matter what their normal human brothers could warn them against because their great concern is to fight away their foes’ perditions targeting society or erroneous ideas that tends to corrupt or any defying statements hurled against their people.

Moses was both king and a Prophet. But where did he grow? The Almighty God raised him inside the Egyptian Kingdom (Palace) so that he could learn Egyptian wisdom, riddles, proverbs and wise Sayings. And the word of God said “Moses grew mighty in words and deeds”. God put his Servant’s feet up on leadership realm. You should know, that when the word of God is misinterpreted, that it could produce delicate and weakling personalities.

 But when the Almighty God’s word is well-translated and lived unto its liability, it will cause even the feeblest and way-giving legs to rise up and become great leaders! Believe me or not, it is the GOD of Abraham who ALONE gives power to who He wished. King of Babylon for instance, was chosen by GOD for punishing His people for their transgressions. The GOD set Nebuchadnezzar to be King over the earth and Jeremiah prophesied this to his stiff-necked Zedekiah king of Judah and his ministers who refused to give his neck to the king Nebuchadnezzar because of the false prophets who encouraged the king of Judah not to bend to Jeremiah’s prophesies. 

But GOD spoke through Jeremiah saying:⁵"I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. ⁶And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. ⁷So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

⁸And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, "with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

Jeremiah again spoke clearly to a stiff-necked Zedekiah king of Judah and his ministers who listened to false prophets’ words, saying, “⁹Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon." ¹⁰For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.¹¹But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,' says the LORD, "and they shall till it and dwell in it." ¹²I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live! The Bible continue… ¹³Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?. The king spoke, and said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the Captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah? ¹⁴I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

Believe me, nothing God demand to host or to restore to Himself all human leaderships no matter how minor, He wish them to be giving His due glory to His Most High Name. You must know, that through leadership we glorify either God Creator of Universe, or Satan. And we must uplift God’s Kingdom. Jesus when he was ask by the disciples about the Kingdom of GOD, he (Jesus) said, ²⁰Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹nor will they say, "See here!' or "See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you. (Luke 17: 20-22). Therefore, you must that Leadership is a glory of gods, and it is up to the society to choose the god they and their offspring wish to glorify.

Daniel was both a Leader and a Prophet. He ruled even in the foreign kingdom. In those days, the highest kingdom on earth was the Babylonian Kingdom. And when God was not pleased by the ways the kings of His anointed Kingdom were leading His people. He decided to send them into captivity and place was said to the higher kingdom, namely Babylonian kingdom under the king Nebuchadnezzar. He sent them there into captivity not because He completely did not want them, but He wished to correct them there in that great kingdom full of wisdom and strength.

And Daniel, the Hebrew, even in that great kingdom, he was found worthy to lead because of courage, wisdom and strength he depicted before Nebuchadnezzar The Great. Daniel gained the king’s favor, and managed to lead twice as the second ruler in that great kingdom. It was said that even Daniel’s friends joined leadership and were amongst the Babylonians leaders as governors to three provinces. Daniel used to sit in the royal palace with his friends deciding on matters affecting the kingdom and their words were considered above any of Babylonians’ natives. And that was where the envious men of Babylonian remonstrated the way they saw Hebrew were highly help in respect. But God was there to help them from their enemies’ plots.

You must know, the lessons the Bible is pointing out here are not about “salvation” or “everlasting life” but concerned leadership, godly leadership. The Almighty God here wants to be the real leader of His Peoples, but how would He lead the human realm, the flesh, while he is a SPIRIT? That is why he wish to use His own children—YOU! 

You must also remember also, that God had written and sealed His words in the tablets of our hearts in order to use that word both for give good governance and guidance when we go wrong some areas in thing to do with leadership. There is great urge in God heart, so He love to give the best things to His people always. 

He wants to see His people well-catered for. But He lacked reliable access since the world is corrupt and thoroughly wicked. Sometimes when God sees His people are misled or misguided, he retaliates by striking the humanity with things like earthquakes, famines, draughts, epidemics, hurricanes or fires and so many are God rebuking humans on godless leaderships.

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