When vessels are scarce week 47, 2015

Are you a seed of God? Are you a seed of Christ? If truly you are, then you have the royal blood and evil counsel of men or devils cannot prevail over you! Look at the people that gathered together to stop the gospel: rulers, elders, scribes, Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, the host of others. And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes, And Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together at Jerusalem. Acts 4:5-6(KJV).

 You see the calibre of people that gathered; pastors, church elders, false teachers, false brethren, bishops. All in falsehood could not stop Peter and John. Equally they cannot even stop the counsel of God over you, and ministry that the Lord has committed into your hand. “My counsel shall stand” declared the Lord in Is46:10; His counsel shall stand no matter who is involved in your case, His counsel shall prevail.

When there is a scarcity of vessels, even in the Lord’s sanctuary, He raises and uses any available instrument to carry out His counsel and good pleasure. He can even go outside the church to find an instrument to do all His good pleasure and carry out His counsel. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it Is 46:10-11(KJV). From the above statement, it’s clear that God is serious about what he is saying and means every bit of it.

“Calling a ravenous bird from the east.” Recall the days of Elijah during the famine. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, get thee hence and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be that thou shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 1Kgs17:2-4(KJV). God is saying that instead of His counsel to fail, He would rather use a ravenous bird to execute His counsel. When He looked around and found no one: nobody around, no vessel, He used birds. Humanly speaking, birds cannot carry food that will be sufficient for a man, but that was how God decided to carry out His counsel.

“The man that executeth my counsel from a far country.” Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah 2Chr 36:23 (KJV). Here’s an uncircumcised heathen king, king and God called him His shepherd and that he will rebuild Jerusalem and the Lord’s temple will be restored by him. When I say of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd,' he will certainly do as I say. He will command, 'Rebuild Jerusalem'; he will say, 'Restore the Temple.'" Is 44:28(NLT).  Instead of His counsel not to stand, He will do an unusual thing.

Odinaka Otuche