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YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR ORDER




 

Have you ever walked into a restaurant? Anyone at all? Mr. Biggs? KFC? Sheraton? Have you ever tried just going in sitting and not ordering anything? Let’s start at the very beginning…
Let’s start at the ‘Iya Bunmi’ level, for our brothers and sisters who have not walked into a restaurant before. Let’s assume you are very hungry, the hungriest you’ve ever been, and you walk into Iya Bunmi’s counter and just stand there, you don’t order anything, you’re not carrying a plate, you’re just standing. Please do not be surprised when she sends you away (with a broom, if you were standing too close) with all the Holy Spirit and hunger in you because you’d be blocking other customers from buying what they want.
Now to the Mr. Biggs and KFC category, in this kind of places someone would be there to open the door for you (that’s some sort of V.I.P treatment). After entering, you don’t walk up to the counter, you just sit at a table and start watching TV (let’s not forget that you are very hungry). Again don’t be surprised if you’re politely walked out by the same person that opened the door for you.
Now let’s see what happens at Sheraton. The door is opened for you (V.I.P), you take a seat (in this case that’s what you’re supposed to do, a waiter walks up to you with a menu (V.V.I.P), asks you to glance through and walks away so that you can have time to decide what you want (V.V.V.I.P), he comes back to take your order and you say “I don’t want anything” or “you can see that I am hungry, bring me food”. Once again you would be politely asked to leave.
In all of these cases, it wasn’t that you didn’t have money or you were not hungry, the only offense was that YOU DID NOT MAKE YOUR ORDER. As the meaning of the word implies, to ‘order’ is to ‘make a demand’ or to ‘ask for something. These same rules apply in the Kingdom of Heaven—
In Mark 11:23, Jesus said “whatsoever you shall say to this mountain…”, that’s Iya Bunmi
In Mark 11:24, Jesus said “whatever thing you desire, when you pray…”, that’s Mr. Biggs/KFC
In Luke 18:41, Jesus said to the blind beggar, at Jericho, “What will you that I shall do unto you”, that’s Sheraton baby!!!
As a Christian you have the liberty to choose which of these ‘restaurants’ you want to dine in, you have the currency of heaven (you’re born again), you’re hungry (you have needs) and you have come to the restaurant (prayer) all that is left is for you to order and the angels would run to get them for you.
Some Christians have the habit of praying like this: “God you know my needs and the things that trouble me, provide them for me Lord and take care of my troubles”. You can be sure that God would say something like: “My dear child, you haven’t ordered anything “. God wants you to MAKE AN ORDER! It is your divine right as a Christian!
Just before you run off to the heavenly restaurants, there’s just one more thing you have to remember: in everything give thanks. So don’t forget to say “thank You” before (for the previous delivery) and after ordering. Shalom!
—Eni-itan

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