This is what the president of Loveworld, Inc. has to say about the church building that got engulfed with fire at the early hours of the morning, Sunday 23, June 2024.
Whereas many of the members would have been devastated and feeling all broken, Pastor Chris took a different viewpoint, and rather strengthened the hearts of everyone, showing them an even better and bigger picture.
Hear his words:
When something like this happens don’t be moved one bit. Move beyond it. Instead of debating the cause, move beyond it..we are not like this world. We don’t reason like this world. Was I surprised? No. Not even the slightest surprise.
When something like this happens, we have to remember that we are not of this world. Every single day, God protects us. He protects everything that he give us with his glory and his grace. Everyday his angels are with us. We cannot think for a moment that God somehow is blaming us because that would mean “so what was He doing?”
Was he there? Were his angels there? Of course. Everyday, God protects us from every evil. There is so much evil trying to come to us everyday…a lot that we don’t see or know about, but He protects and delivers us. When you are sleeping, you don’t know what happens, yet God takes care of us. So, when something bad like this happens, you praise and thank Him as you would have done if it didn’t happen. Thank Him all the same. Why? Because you understand how He thinks.
Every opportunity, everything that happens in your life is for a greater glory. So, our thinking should not be “What a great loss”. We built that with everything we knew up until that time. We will build a bigger and better one. God just gives us an opportunity to do something about it.
We will clear up the place and build a better one. Let the devil lick his wounds. We must look at life from the spiritual. This is not what you call an accident. We are not ordinary people. We are helped All the time.
So, everything that happens in your life is on plan. There is no accident to the child of God. Don’t ask God why.. Just say “Thank you Lord Jesus”.
So what are you going to do? Act! Give into it. Make sure to give a donation to LCA… your cell, family, company… Do it.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome om Sunday 23rd June, at the Grand Finale, ICLC 2024, Asese, Ogun State, Nigeria.
What a mindset!
Thanks for reading.
