Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The focus of my post today is on...I will build my Church.
Those words stuck to my heart and brought so much comfort as I taught about it, that I have wanted to share it with you. In fact, I have written this topic down for weeks now but just have not found the time to write down what poured into my heart from these words.
Some of us may attend churches in which we see the glaring faults or errors in their practices. Some believers have taken it upon themselves to criticize Churches on social media platforms( I do not encourage this practice as it has often given my agnostic boss enough ammunition to criticize Christianity in general). I do not think that you will find a Church, where you will never be offended or hurt or where there may not be some error or the other.
So many believers still have taken to social media to criticize Churches and ministers. Giving enough ammunition to the agnostics and atheists to criticize the church. Some others have been hurt by men in the church.
This state of affairs may have led some to become discouraged in their faith but no matter how bad the state of the church in which you attend may appear, Please note that if the church is actually founded on the revelation of who Jesus truly is, then know that he that founded the church can build it.
I have come to understand that no matter the problems that I find in the church today, that if the Church was founded on the foundation of who Jesus truly is, He will build His Church.
Friend the Church is not yours, it is His. He calls it his Church! So if you have ever set the wrong label on the Church by calling it yours, then you are very wrong. The Church does not belong to you.
Secondly,the will is not according to your will. Many have come to run the church based on all sorts of business model or even blue prints from other churches. The have bench-marked themselves with other ministries and ministers not understanding that the will or blueprint upon which the church stands is not yours but He(Jesus) has it.
Surrender the Church to the one who promised to build it. He may use you as a stone with which he will build, but always know that the master plan to build is not in your hands but in His.
