No Matter The Challenges You Have Faced, You Are Qualified For A Great New Beginning In Christ!

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25th Annual Convention of RCCG - The Americas

VIRTUAL REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 25TH CONVENTION OF RCCG – THE AMERICAS THEMED: NEW BEGINNING ON THE 19TH OF AUGUST, 2021

....So, are you afraid of the future? Do you feel small and inadequate? Do you also have little faith? Are you hiding away from the enemy unable to face the challenges that we are confronted with today? And there are many challenges men face today; the challenges of being able to be the breadwinner, the challenges of being able to meet the demands that life makes upon you, the challenges of being able to be the best professional that you can be, the challenges of being able to keep a job – to get promoted and be elevated even within our secular occupation, the challenge of being able to prove ourselves.

I have good news for you! You are qualified for a great new beginning. So, how does this work? God’s man for new beginnings is one who is weak or has many weaknesses so that God’s strength can show clearly and be demonstrated poignantly.

God did not create us to be independent of Him, He did not endow us with the strength to succeed without Him. The reason why we are afraid is because like Gideon, we think the battle is ours to fight, so we see how hopeless the fight is because we are so weak.

In Judges 6:15: “O my Lord how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest Manasseh. I am the least in my father’s house” But God corrected him Judges 6:16, “Surely, I will be with you and you shall defeat the Midianites.”

So, while Gideon kept thinking that the battle and thinking that the battle would depend on his personal strength, his family influence, or the power of his tribe, God kept saying “no, it’s not about you, but it is about Me.”

In verse, scripture says: “16 Surely I will be with you and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.” to demonstrate to Gideon that his victory will not depend on himself in this new beginning that God was giving him. In this new beginning, God asked him to reduce the size of his army (just to prove a point to Gideon) that he was going to take to the battle to a ridiculously low number. God told him to reduce his men from 3,000 to 300 – reduce the people around you, reduce the number of people you think would exercise some kind of influence on your behalf. And God told him why in Judges 7:2: “And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’”

God told Gideon – take your hope away from what you have or who you have, all these contacts and connections. God is also saying the same to us, that we cannot depend on those we know and, on our flesh, and power. It is up to God, this thing is about God, in the new beginning that God gives us, it is about God.

The second point to note is that the God of new beginnings does not expect you to change physically or materially before your victory comes.

In verse, scripture says in verse 14 “go in this might of yours” and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites.” With this little faith of yours, with these failings of yours, go ahead and you will win because I the creator of all things, the all-powerful will give you the victory. Your strength is irrelevant.

The third point to note is that the man who will have a new glorious beginning should not expect that he will not have troubles or problems. As noted in verse 13, scripture says: “O my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about saying: “Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?”

There are those who will ask, why am I sick after all my prayers and fasting? Why did my wife/brother die? Why do I not have a good job? Why did my business fail? Why am I going through all these problems in my business despite everything that I have done? I paid my tithes, gave generous offerings, prayed, and fasted.

In the midst of your current travails, the God of new beginnings is about to change your story. He is about to do something new. Scriptures say that weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. The morning is a new beginning, after the sorrow, God begins again with joy. Isaiah 43:19 says: “Behold, I will do a new thing,

Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”

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Oluyemi Oluleke “Yemi” Osinbajo is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who is the current Vice President of Nigeria, in office since 29 May 2015.

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