40 Days or 40 Years?

The time promised by God for the people of Israel to take possession of the promised land was of just forty days but it ended up taking forty years, why? When God promises to do something in our life is because He is ready for that and no one better than Him knows that if we are blessed He will be glorified but when we prevent Him from doing what He has already planned for us then problems will be inevitable that was what happened to the children of Israel in the wilderness, when they should have crossed the desert in forty days they took forty painful and tearful years, what did they do? They simply put into practice what they had in their mind, their own thought, they decided to follow the impulse of their flesh and as a consequence they got totally lost in the wilderness; that’s what we have seen to happen to many people inside and outside of the church, how many of them come to church and hear the word of God and promptly agree with what is preached but right after the meeting is over most of them forget what they were told by the man of God? They leave the church and it seems that they are running for their lives.

The truth is, if we don’t follow what the Holy Spirit brings to us there’ll be no way to bless and change our life, who can please two masters at the same time? Or you please God by doing what He wants us to do or you please yourself by doing what you have in mind, exactly like the children of Israel did and it took them forty years of their lives and during those forty years many people died and could not enter the promised land, they saw the blessing but could not possess it.

We are in all the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God praying, persevering and crying out everyday in all services because we do believe that during these forty days God will do great things in the life of those who are listening to what we pastors are preaching those who are following not their own ideas but what they are learning from the Holy Spirit, we all have the opportunity of conquering our victories within forty days, God doesn’t change nor lie if He said “Ask you shall receive” is because if we really ask with faith we’ll receive, God will never tell us to do something in which He is not going to honor. So, the secret for you overcome your problems and change your life is to do exactly as the Holy Spirit has been telling you through the men of God, don’t try to do what is in your mind or what you hear from other people it may cost your whole life and what you should conquer in forty days it may take forty years.

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6.7

Bishop Carlos E Da Costa