MAKE THAT MOVE RIGHT NOW...Operating in the area of your strength
POWER OF DESIRE
We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought.
Marsha Sinetar
As I was putting pen to paper for this book, dramatic news broke in London, England. A 26 foot Northern bottle nosed whale weighing 23 tonnes had swum up the Thames. This attracted many tourists and onlookers, first as an astonishment, then delight, then about two days later to sheer sadness. The impact was well reported, and it is understandable that over 23 million viewers watched the failed rescue on the television all over the globe. As I pondered on this whale-ish experience I see a metaphor in the way that this whale, that was supposed to be a master in water, (the whale is the world’s deepest diving whale) and a specie that could not survive anywhere else but inside water, came to its death in the most inglorious fashion. It is not the fact that the whale died, which is regrettable for all animal lovers, but the fact that the water which was supposed to give it a life line, was actually its cause of death!
Why, you may ask? The answer is simple: the whale was not going to live as long as it was operating in the place of its weakness rather than its strength. That whale had its strength only in the deep sea. (Natural habitat is the deep waters of the North Atlantic Ocean). The Thames is too shallow water for the whale to survive!
Pity, you will say, but that was the reality of the whale, and that is the reality of mankind. Most of us operate in our weakness areas, rather than our strengths. (Place of weakness, rather than place of strength). The world is massively filled and inhabited with people who are sick, both spiritually and physically. If your sickness is in the physical, at least you will know the state of your ill-health, and you may be able to consult a doctor with the specialist knowledge to solve your medical condition. The difficult one is the spiritual sickness when you do not really know what is wrong with you, even though you know you are not okay. This is exactly the background and the essence of this book. We are like that whale who is the best in the deep sea, but died in a sorry state in the shallow waters of the Thames. I am sure the whale desperately wanted to get out of the Thames, but could not just find a way out. Much as it tried, it failed. Recently scientists have revealed what was wrong with the whale. The six-year-old bottlenose - affectionately named Wally the Whale - was apparently suffering from a form of arthritis when she swam 40 miles up the Thames. Scientists studying her remains say the northern bottlenose was suffering from an agonising joint disease in the neck. It's a degenerative joint disease which in humans is called arthritis.
Like the whale, many of us suffer what I will call spiritual arthritis or even what I may refer to as agonizing joint disease in areas of finances, emotions, ministry, marital, and psychological points. In those areas, the joints are not fully oiled. The result then is that we find ourselves in positions where we wish desperately to escape from, to a place of miracle, or the place of miracle, if we have identified one. For reasons which I intend to enumerate in this chapter, we are always stuck.
Such was the case with the man in John 5. That man was in the same place for 38 years. He could see other people making the move into the water, that is stirred by an angel, once a year, but because of his condition, both physical and spiritual, he was not able to make the move, or his move was not good enough to receive his breakthrough. I have asked myself several questions, and I will consider such over the chapters of this book. The answers are God’s revelation to me, and I believe every reader of this book will catch on to the revelation in Jesus Name. Amen
Culled from the book...Make that Move Right Now by Tayo Arowojolu
Copies of book available on Amazon
We first must think "I can," then behave appropriately along that line of thought.
Marsha Sinetar
As I was putting pen to paper for this book, dramatic news broke in London, England. A 26 foot Northern bottle nosed whale weighing 23 tonnes had swum up the Thames. This attracted many tourists and onlookers, first as an astonishment, then delight, then about two days later to sheer sadness. The impact was well reported, and it is understandable that over 23 million viewers watched the failed rescue on the television all over the globe. As I pondered on this whale-ish experience I see a metaphor in the way that this whale, that was supposed to be a master in water, (the whale is the world’s deepest diving whale) and a specie that could not survive anywhere else but inside water, came to its death in the most inglorious fashion. It is not the fact that the whale died, which is regrettable for all animal lovers, but the fact that the water which was supposed to give it a life line, was actually its cause of death!
Why, you may ask? The answer is simple: the whale was not going to live as long as it was operating in the place of its weakness rather than its strength. That whale had its strength only in the deep sea. (Natural habitat is the deep waters of the North Atlantic Ocean). The Thames is too shallow water for the whale to survive!
Pity, you will say, but that was the reality of the whale, and that is the reality of mankind. Most of us operate in our weakness areas, rather than our strengths. (Place of weakness, rather than place of strength). The world is massively filled and inhabited with people who are sick, both spiritually and physically. If your sickness is in the physical, at least you will know the state of your ill-health, and you may be able to consult a doctor with the specialist knowledge to solve your medical condition. The difficult one is the spiritual sickness when you do not really know what is wrong with you, even though you know you are not okay. This is exactly the background and the essence of this book. We are like that whale who is the best in the deep sea, but died in a sorry state in the shallow waters of the Thames. I am sure the whale desperately wanted to get out of the Thames, but could not just find a way out. Much as it tried, it failed. Recently scientists have revealed what was wrong with the whale. The six-year-old bottlenose - affectionately named Wally the Whale - was apparently suffering from a form of arthritis when she swam 40 miles up the Thames. Scientists studying her remains say the northern bottlenose was suffering from an agonising joint disease in the neck. It's a degenerative joint disease which in humans is called arthritis.
Like the whale, many of us suffer what I will call spiritual arthritis or even what I may refer to as agonizing joint disease in areas of finances, emotions, ministry, marital, and psychological points. In those areas, the joints are not fully oiled. The result then is that we find ourselves in positions where we wish desperately to escape from, to a place of miracle, or the place of miracle, if we have identified one. For reasons which I intend to enumerate in this chapter, we are always stuck.
Such was the case with the man in John 5. That man was in the same place for 38 years. He could see other people making the move into the water, that is stirred by an angel, once a year, but because of his condition, both physical and spiritual, he was not able to make the move, or his move was not good enough to receive his breakthrough. I have asked myself several questions, and I will consider such over the chapters of this book. The answers are God’s revelation to me, and I believe every reader of this book will catch on to the revelation in Jesus Name. Amen
Culled from the book...Make that Move Right Now by Tayo Arowojolu
Copies of book available on Amazon
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