God’s Not Finished With You Yet
‘FOR GOD HAS APPOINTED ANOTHER SEED FOR ME’
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GENESIS 4:25.
Satan’s goal was to infect Adam before his fi rst son was born; that way he could
contaminate all the rest of us. And it almost worked! Cain, his fi rstborn, murdered
his brother Abel. But God wasn’t fi nished with Adam yet. Listen: ‘Adam knew his
wife again and she bore him a son and named him Seth ‘For God has appointed
another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.’ (Genesis 4:25 NKJ)
Lord, it’s great
How wonderful! For everything you’ve loved and lost, God has another seed. For
to know that
everything that has died or been stolen from you, God has another seed. You see,
everyday I live I
your seed is your future and God has another one for you to birth. He has another
create a legacy
miracle for you to hold. Where you are right now is not where you’re going. The devil
for the future. In
knew God had a plan for you; that’s why he worked so hard to wipe you out. He
my work, in my
didn’t want you to live long enough to receive what God had in mind. But he failed,
family, in my very
didn’t he? The very fact that you’re still here says that God’s not through with you
yet. Start looking ahead; there’s something coming up on God’s calendar that’s
existence there is
got your name on it. ‘God hath appointed …’ There’s something good just over the
the potential to
horizon; something good for your life…your marriage…your family…your career…
bless someone.
your ministry. If you are not on your deathbed, then God still has an appointed task
I know and
for you to fi nish. Get up! Get going! He’s called you with an eternal purpose!
recognise, Lord,
that one day, all
the grief of this life
What’s Heaven Like…?
will be cast into the
‘IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS…’
shadows, when
JOHN 14:2. Heaven reveals
its full nature and
On September 11, 2001, a mother told her four-year old that his dad, a New York beauty. Praise Your
City cop, wouldn’t be coming home that night because he’d gone to Heaven. ‘Can wonderful Name.
we call him on his mobile phone?’ the child asked. ‘No, but some day we’ll go to see
him,’ she replied. After a pause the four-year-old looked up and asked, ‘Mummy,
what’s Heaven like?’ Multitudes ask that question. Who’s qualifi ed to answer it?
Jesus! Listen: ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions … I go to prepare a place
for you’ (John 14:2). ‘What’s heaven like?’ Like moving into a part of your heavenly
Father’s house, specially prepared for you. No renovating, no parts unfi nished, no
disappointments on moving day.
‘What will we do there?’ Serve God day and night (Revelation 7:15). ‘Doing what?’
Ruling angels. Being responsible for whole cities. ‘Will we know our loved ones?’
Would we know less in Heaven than we did on earth? ‘…face to face…then shall
I know even as also I am known’ (1 Corinthians 13:12). ‘Will our children still be
children and our parents still be old?’ No. ‘…when He appears, we shall be like
Him…’ (1 John 3:2 NIV) Jesus, who left us at 33.
‘What about the physically challenged?’ Listen: ‘…our present sufferings are not
worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us…as we wait eagerly for
our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies’ (Romans 8:18-23 NIV). Joni
Eareckson Tada says, ‘That will be the day after my death when I, the quadriplegic,
will be on my feet dancing!’ Heaven will be wonderful! Are you going?.
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