Living in Obedience: Giving In The Lord's Will by Maurice Paul Obonyo - HTML preview

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Chapter Three

How Can A Person

Give His All To The Lord?

A person who has been in the Lord’s will for long will eventually not hold back anything from God. If you are asking: why does the Lord require a person to give what he has received from God? If you have been gifted by God, you are able to use such a gift for the glory of the enemy. If a person has a gift of children, they can be used by the enemy for his purposes. Those children can be used to oppress a person who loves the Lord so that he may have no peace. If you give those children to the Lord, the enemy will not be able to use them to oppress you. How might the enemy use children to oppress a person who loves the Lord? I have been to a place where the children were always sickly. Whatever surplus money their parents received, they spent on paying hospital bills for the children. The children were always sick at the time they had some money. When they did not have money, the children were not sick. Such children are a tool for the enemy to use against their parents.

If you have been told by the Lord to give your all, it means that the Lord is not going to ask you for what you have one by one. He wants to own everything you have. I have asked the Lord: what else do I have that is mine? I do not own anything at all. I gave all that I am to the Lord. If you are thinking: what do I still own? I own a lot of wealth that I cannot be able to quantify. A time will come when the Lord will ask for your all. When the Lord asks for your all, it does not mean that you will become a pauper, rather, it means that you are being protected from the traps which the enemy has laid for you. If you are carnal, you may think that the Lord has decided to deny you what you own.

One day I was driving my car, I stopped to ask for directions to a business that was near a church. A lady offered to direct me to the business premises since she was on her way a nearby church. I asked her to enter the car so that I could drive her to the church that she was going to. When she entered my car, I was being followed by a garbage truck that had lost control on the slope, people on the road were shouting to other road users to get off the road, the truck driver had decided to use my car as breaks without my suspicion .Fortunately, the lady in my car directed me to take a left turn. Immediately I took the turn, the garbage truck swayed back into the road and missed us. I wondered what if I had not taken a left turn at that particular time? We would not have survived that accident. I was later told by the Lord to stop driving that car until its curses were nonexistent. How do curses leave an item like a car? If you have an item that was previously owned by a cursed person, that item is cursed. In my case, I purchased my vehicle used from Japan and did not know who the previous owner was. The Lord revealed to me that the previous owner was a condemned man.

A condemned man is a person who is unable to either pray or communicate with God. The only prayer that such a person can pray and get an answer is a prayer of repentance. If I had not stopped using that car, I would have been a victim of marine spirits that inhabited the car because of its previous owner. The car was parked for over two and a half years so that the marine spirits which inhabited the vehicle could leave as a result of redundancy. They are now unable to torment me if the car is not being used. When they finally left the vehicle, the Lord told me to use it. Had it been that I had not been able to give that vehicle to the Lord, He would not have told me to stop using it. If I had continued using it, I would have given the enemy a tool for him to use to destroy my life.

If you have never given the Lord your all, you will not know how much freedom comes with being free from cursed items. I was told by the Lord to burn cursed items that inhabited wicked spirits. At that time, I did not fully understand why the Lord was asking me to burn items that included: furniture, beddings, clothes, and other household items. If you were the one that the Lord told to do likewise, would it seem like foolishness to you? I burnt items that I needed. This is what giving your all to the Lord will may lead you to. Can a person pray and bless items he suspects are cursed? It is not possible for cursed items to be blessed even if you pray for them. Some of these cursed items are from hell. What do you mean when you say that there are items from hell? If a person buys an item from a condemned place, that item will be cursed. For instance, If you go and buy a mirror from a condemned place, it will be used by the enemy to distract you by the cursed spirits which will use it as a portal into hell. How do marine spirits use mirrors? Mirrors are used in divination. If your home mirror was bought from a cursed or condemned place, go and break it immediately.

One evening, the Lord told me to break my home mirror, I did not hesitate. The Lord later revealed to me that that mirror was being used by ancestors to communicate to the people in my household. If I had not given all that I had to the Lord, I would still have that mirror in my home today. Some of the people that were able to communicate with the ancestors were only able to communicate from the washroom where that particular mirror was! I had purchased it from a large downtown mall. I burned everything which I purchased from that mall.

When a person is in the Lord’s will, he will be able to know how and when to give. A person that is not in the Lord’s will is not able to know how to give to the Lord. Giving to the Lord does not require a person to only give material possessions. If you have only been giving money to your local church and calling it godly giving, know that it is not. A giver has to receive what he has given from the Giver; who is the Lord. When a person gives what he has not received from the Lord, he has sinned against the Lord. He has mixed a curse with a blessing. A curse is upon a giver who has given to the Lord what he has received from the enemy. How will I know if what I am giving is from the enemy? As I mentioned earlier, not every giving is in material possession. If you have a gift from the enemy, you cannot use that gift to worship the Lord. If you do, you will acquire a curse from the Lord and from the enemy as well.

A person who has gifts from the enemy is not supposed to use those gifts to bless God and otherwise. If you use a gift which you received from the enemy to bless God, you will acquire cursed items using that gift. When I was a graphic designer, all the items that I acquired with that gift were cursed by God. The enemy is not going to give a person gifts which are his, he will steal them from another person. If you have a gift which is from the enemy, know that you are in possession of a gift that was meant for someone else. When you give to the Lord all that you have, the Lord will be able to tell you which gift is from God and which one is not. If you have gifts that are from the enemy, you must relinquish those gifts to the Lord. A gift which has not been relinquished to the Lord is a tool for the enemy to use against you. I was told to relinquish my gift of being a designer to the Lord. He then told me not to earn from being a designer. At that time, I did not know why the Lord told me to stop earning as a designer. All I knew is that I had to obey. Had I not obeyed, I would not have received the gifts that God has given to me today. I have the gifts of: writing, cooking, oratory, administration and wealth. A person who has gifts like the ones God has given to me is not able to stay in the enemy’s will. The Lord will not let you do the enemy’s will.

If you are in a position where you want to know if you have gifts which are from the enemy, you need the Lord to guide you on how to identify gifts which are from Him and those that are from the enemy. A gift which is from the Lord, is able to bring you wealth as you use it. If you have a gift which is from the enemy, you will lose wealth as you use it. If I was not able to stop being a designer, I would have earned much and gained less as I earned more. The opposite applies for a gift which is from the Lord. A person with a gift from the Lord will not need to work as hard as I worked. He will only need to give thanks to God for the gift that God gave to him. When I relinquished the gift of design, I was given a gift of prophecy at a greater level than before. If you thought that because you have some gifts, you cannot have those gifts at another level, you are lacking in knowledge.

If you abide in obedience to the Lord, you will be rewarded with gifts which are from the Lord and gifts which are from God. Have you ever known the difference between gifts which are from the Lord and gifts that are from God? I have gifts which are from both the Lord and God. The gifts which are from God are those that He gives at birth. If you are a homemaker, you have a gift of a home. Another person may have the gift of wealth and yet another person may have the gift of peace, joy and love. Such gifts are from God and are natural. I also have gifts of cooking, wealth, humility, home, peace and joy from God. I also have the gifts of: prophecy, the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, revelation, diverse kinds of tongues, faith, oratory, understanding, interpretation, discernment of diverse kinds of spirits, working of miracles, and healing. You are not able to choose the gifts which God gives to you. However, on the other hand, you may choose the gifts which the Lord can give to you depending on your faith. If you are of little faith, the Lord will not give you most of the gifts of the Spirit. If you have much faith, the Lord will give you more gifts of the

Spirit.