The Father's Menu

The Father's Menu

Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

TASTES AND DESIRES

As a true child of God, you need to take things easy with yourself and most importantly issues that relates with God’s provisions. If God expects you to wait, then you have nothing else to do but wait. God expects you to wait on Him.

The Christian race is a marathon where patience is a key component. God rewards the patient. He also rewards the impatient. When you are impatient with God concerning a blessing, by the time He gives you the blessing prematurely, it will either cause you shame for the rest of your life or may even kill you. Psalms 106:15 says God gave the Israelites their request but added leanness to their souls. Why? While in the wilderness, God gave them manna but they soon got tired of it and began to lust for meat. But because the Israelite wanted to dictate to God how they should undergo their trial, God gave them flesh. As they put it in their mouths, the Lord sent a plague which destroyed many of them.

Many people have severely hurt themselves as a result of their personal desires and tastes. If you find it difficult to submit your tastes, desires and habits to God, you will continue to hurt yourself. Some sisters so pressed the Lord for a particular brother as a husband to the point that the same God who had said “No” eventually said “yes”. How such sisters would have rejoiced and bragged about their accomplishment, not knowing that they had just signed up for their own unhappiness. Sometimes when God gives you your heart desires contrary to His will, everything may appear right but your soul will be plagued with leanness. A lean soul is on its way to destruction. The voice of God is cut off from the fellow and he or she will walk about as one who does not know where he or she is going. Check your desires, control your tastes!

Prayer: Lord, grant me grace to wait patiently for your provisions

Further reading: Numbers 11:31-35

Read through the Bible: II Kings 25 & Hebrews 7