NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER!
NOT
BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER!
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now
there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city;
yet no man remembered that same poor man.
I write for a Generation yet to be
born, you really have to know your Bible before you can be able to digest what I'm
writing about. Glossing over my words, will leave you scrawny and at odds with
what you're reading and understanding!
King Solomon told the story of a wise poor old man, who saved his
besieged city and sadly: nobody remembered nor recognized the poor old man
after he delivered victory for this city! His story sounds very familiar if you
spent most of your life, reaching out to people!
From my youth up, my life has always
been used by God as sacrifice to help the wounded in spirit despite myself. Great
is your Reward in Heaven, quipped Jesus!
I remember some years ago, how a group of I.T. Intellectuals at the
University of South Africa, used to say just how my pep talks was helping them
spiritually. Wow! Sydney, we must do this every week: they pleaded in earnest with
me and urged me to continue lifting them up!
While driving back to my home office,
I'd be crying tears to God about my sorry situation: I was barely making enough
money for my survival and family. I was doing Hardware Support for the University
as a 3rd Party! Whoa, what about me LORD?
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the Word of the
LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by My Spirit,
saith the LORD of Hosts. It’d take a lifetime for me to give background tag to every
story I share with you.
I barely have ten people who I can recognize
as my friends: they’re the ones who always remember to check me out and ask how
I’m doing! These guys have no clue just how much these easy gestures minister
to me. Hello, I’m not a lonely person nor a hermit, I’m just your ordinary guy
and everyday person in a World filled with more than 7 Billion souls!
Sometimes, I desperately tried to quit this Unique Ministry God has
given me, but the Spirit always moves inside and reminds me: it’s not your Word
you share with the World, but Mine! That humbled and got me back on the track
again.
It is the Spirit of God who whispered
and reminded me, I was writing for a Generation yet to be born: this comfort in
my heart has helped way beyond I could have gone by myself: grumbling and
limping like Jonah for condescending on the people I’m sent to minster to. I
write for a Generation yet to be born, is more than just an empty slogan but
the Reality and the Relevance of that Generation to come.
Not by Might nor by Power, but by my Spirit says the LORD! He that dwelleth
in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, He is my Refuge and my Fortress: my God in Him I will
trust!
In the Garden God walked with man,
and after the Fall: man walked with God! This is the way I live and survive.
Growing up as an orphan raised by my Big Brother and Big Sister, has taught and
prepared me early in life: not to rely on mortals. Not by Might nor by Power,
but by My Spirt says the LORD! Yea, that’s Sydney!
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