TRIP TO THE DEAD END🤷‍♀️

The dead end is so dreaded, yet we often find ourselves there. The dead-end trip could aim at one of the following four scenarios,

1. A test of our faith

2. A call to prove our worship royalty

3. A spiritual warfare

4. An opportunity to glorify God.

A test of our faith : When Abraham was asked to sacrifice his only son Isaac, all the way to the place of sacrifice is a walk of faith and obedience, the steps must be heavy with Isaac beside him, his intriguing question on where the sacrifice is must have been perturbing, the answer was resolute and a perfect statement of faith, GOD will provide. And provide he did, out of the blue a ram was out there in the thicket, at your dead end, with your full obedience and unshakable walk of faith GOD will appear to you as Jehovah Jireh, GOD who provides. The question would be, why did God intervene last minute, what was going on in the mind of Abraham as he raised his knife to slaughter his only son? What a faith! What an obedience! At your dead end, GOD stretches your faith and obedience to the limit and yet he is on the sideline to intervene as God the provider. (Genesis 22:1-19)

A spiritual warfare: When Daniel was tired, restless, and wanting God’s intervention he set to pray and fast. His prayers must have seemed to hit a wall and indeed there was a spiritual dead end. The principalities had put up an impenetrable wall and blocked Daniel to receive reinforcement from heaven. Sometimes our dead end is spiritually caused, we do not fight against flesh and blood but against principalities, against rulers and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places. At our dead we do not seem to have breakthroughs, yet if we are engaged in prayer and fasting, God will send his fighting angels to our rescue. At your dead end, Michael will rescue you, he will breakdown the wall of the principality pinned against you. God will come to you as Jehovah NISSI, the Lord of battle. (Daniel 10:13)

A call to prove our worship: The man Job reached a dead end, his children died, his cattle died, his health deteriorated, and his wife asked him to deny God. A good diagnosis would show you that the contention was whether Job would lose his righteousness and worship Satan. Yet this righteous man at his dead end, tore his clothes, knelt, and worshipped GOD. The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 is a dead end, the man is in the middle of a valley, the valley has bones, the bones are many and the many bones are dry. What a spectacle, the truth though is that God was talking about his people who had abandoned his worship and the vision is a call to worship GOD, to abandon idols and return to our true worship, without worship we are dry bones that need the breath of GOD for a revival and healing. (Job 1:20)

An opportunity to glorify God: Mary and Martha were losing their brother and they called for their friend Jesus to rescue them, but he did not come. This went on until the sisters lost their brother. Four days later, the friend (Jesus) appears on the scene and as you would imagine the sisters are saying it is too late, why did you not come earlier, it is a dead end, a stinking dead end. Yet Jesus assures them if they believed they would see God’s glory right at their grave end. (Luke 11:40)

The most important thing then is not whether we are at the dead end but rather whether we keep our faith, engage in spiritual warfare, worship God and believe to see the power and glory of GOD as he opens our graves.