YOU NEED GOD
By Bishop Mike Okonkwo
Monday 12th December 2022
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
In our present-day, Churches have become benefit-oriented. As a result, our relationship has become mechanical. We must return to God’s original intention right from creation, which is intimacy. You will notice that in the book of Genesis, before man was made, God had already created everything that will make man comfortable. So, the material things that we seek are not the issue. So, it is really surprising how many people are killing, manipulating, and stopping other people just to get material things.
It was after everything had been put in place that God now said in Gen 1:26-28, let us make man in our image and after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle and all the earth. And God blessed them. This means He empowered man to succeed, subdue, step on the devil, and recover all and to multiply, not to be a failure. Man was empowered from the beginning to be successful on the earth and to dominate creation.
Remember that God is a Spirit. If we were made in the image of God, then we are first of all spirit before we were given a body. When man became active or alive to his environment, the first thing he saw was God and not the created things, not the benefits which God had already put in place. This means that the first focus of man was God and not things. But these days we focus too much on things and we are missing it. Why would God reveal himself first to man before exposing him to the things that he created? So that man can see his true image. God was saying, you are like me and we need to fellowship with one another. He was saying, man needs Him to succeed and man needs Him to control what He has provided. You need Him to overcome and to navigate your life on earth.
Further Reading: Genesis 1:26-31; 2:7-17
Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Hosea 9-11; Evening- Revelation 3