GOD IS NOT DONE WITH YOU YET ......BY AYOBAMI OYALOWO

Ayobami Oyalowo

I felt God impressing it upon me to share this with you, I don't know what your situation is but I know that God isn't through with you yet. Read and be blessed.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I went to bed late and in my usual manner, I made sure to read two chapters of the book I am currently reading and when I was done, I was as tired as I could be, but God impressed it upon my heart to read my bible before I could call it a night. Time was around 1.30 am. I therefore took my bible and opened without knowing where to read but a still small voice asked me to read the first chapter of Matthew. I laughed within me thinking what would I benefit from reading this one beget that one blablabla but God is indeed mighty, I learnt a most amazing lesson in a long while.

Have they told you that you are useless and cannot amount to anything in life? Who has drawn a line and said you can’t go beyond a certain point in life? Who has set a limit for your life that you cannot exceed? The quoted scripture above is as clear as the noon day, it says ALL THINGS work together for good to them who love God and ARE THE CALLED according to God’s purpose. Wow! Amazing!

Even the things we count as sins, errors and weaknesses, shortcomings and failings are all working to help us achieve God’s purpose for our lives. You doubt me, let’s see what God taught me over the course of a rapturous 2hours last night/this morning (Saturday 7th of May, 2016).

Matthew 1: 1-7 (The Living Bible translation)

1 These are the ancestors of Jesus Christ, a descendant of King David and of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.

3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (Tamar was their mother); Perez was the father of Hezron; Hezron was the father of Aram;

4 Aram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon;

5 Salmon was the father of Boaz (Rahab was his mother); Boaz was the father of Obed (Ruth was his mother); Obed was the father of Jesse;

6 Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (his mother was the widow of Uriah);

7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam; Rehoboam was the father of Abijah; Abijah was the father of Asa;
This was the verse God made me read and I saw nothing in it, just like you may not have seen especially if you read from the KJV until the Holy Spirit started to espouse to me the mind of God.

In Genesis 38 you can please read the entire chapter for the story of the life of Judah. You may recall that Reuben was the first born but when Jacob (also named Israel) was blessing his children and prophesying what will happen to his descendants in Genesis 49 from the first verse, the blessing of the firstborn was denied Reuben for sleeping with his father’s concubine. Simeon and Levi were also denied because of their violent nature, therefore Judah got the blessings of the firstborn. In Genesis 49: 9-10 we read:

Judah is a lion’s whelp:
from the prey, my son, thou art gone up:
he stooped down, he couched as a lion,
and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Mark the “the scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law giver between his feet until Shiloh come”. Judah will be the fulfillment of God’s promises on Israel, he will produce the king and Shiloh, i.e. The Christ shall come from his lineage.

Now that we’ve established that, let’s turn to Judah as seen in Genesis 38. Judah married a Canaanite and she gave him three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. Er got married to Tamar but was wicked in the sight of God so God took him away. Their tradition is that his brother would marry Tamar and the first seed would be Er’s son, inheriting his name and all that is his. Onan was made to take up that responsibility but he refused. You can read the entire story in Genesis 38. Onan also died and Judah was afraid for his last son.

Guess what? By a twist of faith, Judah eventually slept with his daughter in law and she gave him a set of twins namely Pharez or Perez and Zarah.

Now let’s us go back to Matthew chapter 1 in verse 3 guess who made the genealogy of David and eventually that of Jesus Christ? It was Perez, the son born out of adultery by Tamar. But God wasn’t done with me yet…

After the debacle that was Pharez or Perez see what we now have; Perez fathered Hezron who in turn was the father of Aram; Aram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon; Salmon was the father of Boaz (Rahab was his mother).

Do you remember Rahab? She was the harlot who saved the two spies that Joshua the son of Nun sent to spy out Jericho and when Jericho was finally destroyed in Joshua chapter 6, we saw in verse 12 that Joshua gave express command that she and her father’s household be saved. And in verse 25 she was saved. But guess what? She became an Israelite by marriage. She married a greater grandson of Judah, Salmon and became the mother of Boaz who also married another outcast called Ruth through whom eventually our Lord and Savious Jesus Christ was born.

So who has told you that you are useless? Who says your sins are such that you cannot make it? Two harlots and one outcast, all of them Gentiles and foreigners were mothers to men who eventually birthed King David.

Now to David. Of all the wives he had, God decided to continue the genealogy of his only begotten son through another woman the world would call despicable but who found grace in the sight of God. The wife of Uriah! We all know the story of the adultery, conspiracy and everything that dogged her path? She was so despicable she had no name in the bible except being called the wife of Uriah yet the Lord had mercy on her and after the initial child of sin died, Solomon was born through her and she was ingratiated into genealogy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

God asked me to tell you that nobody can condemn whosoever he has decided to bless and forgive. And yes, you. God has forgiven and love you and no man can call you an outcast.

No matter the low pit you find yourself today, look unto the rock. Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

That Rock is Jesus Christ look unto him. For in Hebrew 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

No matter how bad you think your situation currently is or how low you are, how despicable the world describes you, come unto him for he is able to save you…

If God saved those four women that the world has condemned and they found grace to be ingratiated into the greatest genealogy ever, then you have a hope. You are not finished, God is working in you and when you are done you will be bright as gold.

Fear not, the Lord is not done with you yet…

Ayobami Oyalowo is on twitter as @Ayourb