He still reigns Week3, 2017

Was your business was sick a while back and you sent an urgent plea to God to help out? Before your eyes the naira to the scarce US dollar exchange rate in the parallel market hit 400 naira to the dollar and is still climbing. To compound issues petrol climbed steadily to reach 250 naira per litre pump price last year, and when the government stepped in it officially was raised to 145 naira per litre. The business is virtually in the tombs. What happened to your prayers?

Your marriage relationship has gone way past your worst nightmare. Saying you two have irreconcilable differences is being polite. There was a time you felt you cared, that it mattered enough to save the marriage. Now the matter is dead and gone. “Can I move on with life Pastor?” is your question. Right now you are facing a raw, bitter experience. As far as you are concerned hope is gone. It has been buried with a tombstone over it for many a day now like Lazarus. As far as your experience is concerned it’s not only Lazarus that became sick and died despite Jesus’ words this sickness is not unto death. You are like him. Your business has collapsed. The relationship is virtually over. He still reigns.

Listen in: Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live. Indeed, everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe that?" Jn 11:25-26(ISV) 

Perhaps you are saying with Martha to Jesus as in Jn 11:21(ISV) "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ".  O that you will also with her say “But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you.” As Jesus told her, "Your brother will rise again." Jesus is here to give you a new lease of life. Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life!” Jn11:25(ISV)    

Economic policies have failed you. Look they will yet fail. You may have looked to a particular political or religious leader and been heavily disappointed. Safety and security don’t come from any political association. No. Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life.” Jn11:25(ISV). Neither APC nor PDP or Biafra can give real safety and guarantee a godly equitable society. Life comes from no religious or political leader. It comes from Jesus. Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life.”Jn11:25(ISV).    Jesus is the way the truth the life.

Even now that marriage can be saved, burst forth with life, that family experience unity, that economy come to life again. You know why? Jesus is showing up and walking to the place you have buried it. He’s not coming to mourn over your Lazarus. No. He is here to bring life again! Hallelujah.

Martha said in  Jn 11:24(ISV) "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." The last day an indistinct time, sometime maybe but Jesus says I am the resurrection and the life. I am here now. Please take Jesus to where your Lazaru, your marriage is buried. Take Him to the tomb now.