Senior Pastor Adebo Tomomewo Speaks on servanthood

Senior pastor Adedo Tomomewo speaks on service in the Kingdom of God.

You are welcome to this month of April, the month we will be embarking on a journey of intimacy with God. I will like to let us know that God has given us an open invitation to draw near to Him. James 4:8: daw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you.

In this case, who draw near first, we or God. We are the one to initiate the drawing near first. This actually means that there is something you will have initiate for the Almighty God, the creator of the universe to draw near to you. We are the one to determine our relationship with God and not God.

God is passionate about us drawing near to Him. In Exodus 34:14, you must worship no other gods, for the LORD, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you. (NLT). He passionately desires the relationship with us with jealous.

Again in James 4:5 what do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy? (NLT) The Spirit of God in us yearns for fellowship. This can be seen clearly when God brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt and Instructed Moses to bring them to mount Sinai for an encounter with Him in Exodus 20:18-22, 18 when the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance 19 and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.” 20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.” 21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was. 22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘you have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:

God is intensely in pursuit of His Children to restore us back to the glorious life that Adam tasted and lost in the beginning at the garden, but the level of relationship is determined by us and not God. We determine how close or intimate we want to get with God. Let’s look at the contrast of attitude and behavioural pattern of the children of Israel and Moses.

The book of Exodus opened up with the children of Israel suffering for 430years in Egypt under captivity. They prayed for God to send them deliverance and God sent them a deliverer in the person of Moses in answers to their prayers. God delivered them out of Egypt.

The children of Israel went through a lot of suffering under the Egyptians/ Pharaoh Taskmasters, Their backs were scared by the whippings of the Pharaoh Taskmasters, their houses were slums and their food s were left over. Though they suffered all these cruelty, they were quick to forget them.

When God delivered them out the land of Egypt, it happened that whenever things went wrong, they will regret their deliverance from Egypt and mock their prayer of deliverance and said it was better to go back to Egypt, (Numbers 14:4, 4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”)

But not Moses, who never thought of returning back to Egypt, He was the one for whom the conditions were better in Egypt. He was raised in the Palace; He lived in the best, ate the best, wore the best and was taught by the best. He willingly left all these behind, unlike the children of Israel

The difference between Moses and the children of Israel is that Moses had a personal encounter with God. In Exodus 3:2-5, there the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight–why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

He saw the burning bush and drew near to it. He met the living God on Mount Sinai but the children of Israel did not. When the Lord called Moses aside, he drew near and, when the Children of Israel were presented with a more excellent opportunity, they drew back, (Exodus 20:18-21). He wanted to give them an experience like the one Moses had, so that they will never think of going back to Egypt, but they drew back. We can see that God is passionately yearning to have a relationship with us only if we draw near to Him.

The question often asked is, where was Moses bringing the Children of Israel to when they left Egypt. The normal response has always been’’ the promise land’’, but this is not really the truth. In Exodus 7:16 then say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert. But until now you have not listened.

The Bible made us to understand that it was primarily to worship the Lord and not to inherit the Land. God wanted them to come and meet with Him. He wants them to draw near to Him so that he can establish an intimate relationship with them. Exodus 19:4 you yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. tells us that God wanted to bring them to Himself so as to establish a relationship with the children of Israel.

Why did Moses take the children of Israel to meet with God first before bringing them to the promise land? God knew that if Moses had brought them to the promise land, they would have loved the Promised Land more than God that promised. Moses could not wait to bring them to the very place he met with God because he knew that God wants his people to have a personal encounter with Him and to have the same experience that he, Moses had with Him. ONLY THOSE THAT HAVE AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE PROMISER WILL EXPERIENCE THE PROMISE LAND

A person that emphasises the blessing of God to the neglect of the relationship with God that blesses creates disciples who come to God for something rather than responding to Him for who He is.

Moses, when he encountered God, all the promises of God for his life fell into their proper places. God’s yearning for intimacy with His people has never decreased or changed. This desire is constantly revealed in His word and, is reflected in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians Church in Ephesians 1:17, I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. God desires from the prayer of Paul for every child of His is to know Him deeply and intimately. God’s interest in His people is for them to come nearer to Him.

In this season of Easter, God is calling us to draw nearer to Him. He is focusing on intimacy.  I want to appeal to our readers that it is time to respond to this call of intimacy.

God bless you!

GOD is committed to developing intimacy with His children but the level of our intimacy with God is determined by us and never by God. In Exodus 20: 18-20, When God brought the Children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt, He instructed Moses to bring them to Mount Sinai, so that he will reveal Himself to them, and draw them closer to Himself, but when God showed up on Mount Sinai, the children of Israel drew back from Him except Moses,who went unto the thick Darkness to meet with God.

It is only by drawing closer to God can we really experience the true weight of our redemptive status.  God is closer to us than we think, and He yearns for an intimate relationship with us In James 4: 8, God asked us to draw nigh to Him, because he is yearning for fellowship with us, His Children.  Drawing closer to Him will develop into an intimate relationship with him.  This is the greatest invitation of God to humanity, we must draw nigh to Him. A redeemed man has the tendency of developing intimacy with God; this is so because the Spirit of Christ has been put into man to yearn passionately for relationship With God. Man was created to fellowship with God. Fellowship here means rubbing mind together, sharing ideas.

Man was created in the image and likeness of God. He is in the same level with God to rub minds with Him but this relationship was cut short when man sinned against God. In James 4: 5, the Spirit of God in us yearns for fellowship with us.  This is the work of Holy Spirit in us. In Psalm 40: 5,  God is telling us that the Love he has for us has generated into things that cannot be counted, things that eyes have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man (1 Cor2:9), but for us to be aware of them and cause them to Manifest in our lives, we must draw closer to Him and, in doing so, every satanic forces fighting against our destiny will be destroyed. Psalm 139: 17, tells us that the plans of God towards us are expressed through words, but for us to know these thought and plans, we must draw closer to God. It is those who press for personal encounter with God (promiser) that will not miss their promise land ( Blessing) In this Easter week, let us purge ourselves of any filthiness that will hinder us from developing an intimate relationship with God. God is looking for people who are hungry for Him and with whom He want to walk with. It is not enough coming to church everyday but we must develop a deep relationship with the Lord. We must learn to hear from God. Seek Him and in doing so, he will reveal Himself to us. It is time we go back to God.

To draw near to God, we must do three things:

1. Be hungry for God.
2. Worship Him from our heart,
3. Reverence God.

My brethren, it is time for us to walk with God so that all the prophetic word over our lives can come to manifestation. You are blessed.