Living in Victory (Volume 1) E-Book

Alain Walljee

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Are you a Christian struggling to make a living and to make ends meet? Is there a contradiction between the promises of God and your current reality? This book will help you on the way toward living a life of victory! Victorious living is within your grasp today!

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Alain Walljee

Living in Victory (Volume 1)

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This book is dedicated to my daughter Tamika Walljee whom I love with all my heart!BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Living in Victory Vol 1 by Alain Walljee

Living in Victory

By Alain Walljee

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(Revised: 04 March 2015)

About The Author

Alain Walljee is a chaplain in the South African Police Service attached to the Section Spiritual Services at the police Head Office in Pretoria, Gauteng. He had been in active ministry post Bible College since 2001 and had pastored three churches of which He had pioneered two.

With a special grace to minister the Word of God through both teaching and preaching God had used Pastor Walljee over the years to touch the hearts of many with a message of hope from God.

Well respected and honoured, Alain Walljee, attributes his success in ministry to having always walked in submission and having served and still serves his own leaders and Senior Pastors. Senior Pastors and founders of Victory Ministries International in Port Elizabeth, Jerome and Eunice Liberty, have played a huge role in the character development and ministry direction of Alain Walljee and Pastor Jerome Liberty had spoken into his life as a father and a mentor.

Pastor Walljee is a member and pastor with Hatfield Christian Church in Waterkloof Glen in Pretoria where he enjoys awesome fellowship, leadership, mentoring and communal growth in God and the work of God in general.

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

The inspiration for this book is found in the sentiment and implications of Psalm 37:25 (NIV):

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the

righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

This verse of Scripture is quite clearly positive in its intent, mood and meaning. The psalmist here is very sure of himself and his testimony. He presents the most persuasive argument and evidence that not even a court of law can deny him; that no one can deny him. He uses his experience. People can defy moral or other arguments but no one can deny an individual’s personal experience.

This is David’s evidence in this psalm: a truth and a reality based on his personal experience and observation. “I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their children begging bread.”

I wish we could say that this is undoubtedly true in terms of all Christians’ personal experiences and observations. Would it not be blissfully ideal to conclude without the shadow of a doubt that David’s reality here is all believers’ reality; that all of us can say that we have never been forsaken; that our children have never begged in any way; that we have not seen others forsaken; that we have not seen the children of good Christians begging?

Even the Lord of glory, on the cross, cried out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?!”

This experience and cry of Christ presents us with a scary prospect. If this can happen to the Son of God, who are we that it should be different for us? David felt this when he prayed, “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” (Ps.8:3-4).

When one looks at the text of Psalm 37:25 and one has had negative experiences with regard to the truth of the text one is immediately struck with a profound sense of sadness. One becomes sad that it does not always work out that way for everyone. Not everyone has an ideal story to tell.

We look at the issues surrounding this paradox in this book. We will look at the truth of the word and the reality of our circumstances and trust God, through the pages of this book, to show us the path of peace, so that we can live in victory!

This is a real burden that I carry as a minister. In terms of my mandate to feed the flock of God I want and need to make sure that the church enjoys the full extent and measure of God’s promises and blessings for His children. So that we can all say, like David, “God will never forsake me nor will those who I am responsible for ever have to beg.”

It is my prayer that as we embark on this journey through the pages of this book together, that you will find that place of peace, where God can settle you as a Christian living in a hostile world.

2. IN THE VALLEY OF FRUSTRATION

My heart goes out for the struggling Christian, especially one who has been faithful and who really tries to live up to the standards of the Word of God but still life knocks them around and now they find themselves in this place of frustration. This is not a nice place to be in for anyone, let alone for a committed and obedient child of God.

It is a valley of frustration.

The Law of the Harvest

It is almost morally acceptable if bad things happen to bad people. In fact, our human nature demands it. We want the criminal to be punished. We want the sinner to go to hell. Our systems and, in a sense, God’s systems require it. “Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth.”

The Bible is very clear about the law of the harvest: “A man reaps what he sows,” (Gal.6:7). Do good and good will come back to you. Do evil and evil will return upon you. This is the social and public expectation of justice and right. Punish the evildoer and bless the righteous.

The Inconsistency

What makes life so hard and frustrating is that the law of the harvest is flawed. It is flawed not because it is not true but because it is built into the fabric of the universe alongside other complementing laws, including the judgment of sin, generational curses, and other principles by which the natural order operate.

One would be content if the law of the harvest was fulfilled uniformly and consistently. But it messes up our faith when the laws seem to operate in reverse.

I can almost hear the sigh in the heart and song of the child of God. The sense of disappointment and disillusionment, of cynicism and bitterness is almost tangible. From this place we comfortably take up the refrain and lament of the Preacher:

There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth:

righteous men who get what the wicked deserve,

and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve.

This too, I say, is meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

I can almost see the disillusioned believer, on her face before God, in deep and heart-wrenching prayer: “Lord, why…” Our minds cannot fathom it. Our hearts cannot comprehend it; it is a paradox of life.

Caught Between Positive Promises and a Negative Reality

This is no doubt an area where a lot of frustration lies for many Christians. The promises in the Word of God have spoiled us and we can often not reconcile the positive promises and purposes of God for our lives with our negative circumstances.

This is a cause of disillusionment for individuals all over the world today. As children we were taught fairy tales with happy endings. The way a baby grows up in the normal course of life almost guarantees that the baby grows up with an expectation that when he cries someone will respond to it. The way babies are attended to and spoiled often become the reason for great discomfort later in their lives when their world is expanded and they begin to deal with people and situations that do not have their best interests at heart. And today we have many cemeteries of living young adults who have fallen in the valley where they had to bridge the gap between adolescence and adulthood simply because life did not and do not go their way.

The Christian’s struggle is similar in that we often find ourselves in a struggle between the life of victory promised in the Bible and the reality of pain we literally find ourselves in. We start off as new born babies in Christ, ready to take on the world for Jesus. No challenge daunts us and no condemnation haunts us. We are on fire for God. And then God lets us go through the test of time and suddenly, one day, we find ourselves miserable and confused because we prayed and God did not answer.

We suddenly find ourselves wondering, “How could this happen?” I got hurt in godly fellowship. I did not know that church politics could destroy so many lives, so many hearts and so many dreams. It’s the valley of frustration.

Sarah’s Dilemma

God promised Abraham according to Genesis 12:2 that He will make him into a great nation. This meant that Abraham would have a child or children. This was, no doubt, a very daunting promise because Abraham was already a hundred years old and Sarah’s womb was dead (Rom.4:18-19).

Sarah could not reconcile this promise with the reality of her age and that of her husband, Abraham (Gen.18:9-15). This was Sarah’s dilemma. How could God create this hope in me when it is clear that I cannot have babies anymore? Yes, I want to please God. Yes, I want to experience the will of God but how do I explain away my clearly negative circumstances?

And as a result of Sarah’s spell in that valley of frustration Ishmael was born outside of the honoured marital relationship (Gen.16:1-2). And still today, that mistake lives on to haunt the people of God who dared to move on their own because they could not believe beyond their reality.