Should You Accept Deliverance Or Resurrection?

 Should You Accept Deliverance Or Resurrection?

Life’s challenges are a part of the human make up. We all go through it in our life – and the frequency and intensity differs from one person to another.

Whether the challenges are intense or not, our guarantee is that we will come out victorious because the bible says; “we have overcome the world”.

In the book of Hebrews chapter 11, also known as the faith chapter, we saw how God’s people responded to issues that threatened their peace.

Some rejected deliverance in place for a better resurrection. Some fought and overcame obstacles. One thing, however, is that they didn’t accept deliverance. They didn’t take the least resistance road.

Before I go on, I would be kind to let you know my thought on the two words – Deliverance and resurrection, in this context.

Deliverance is simply a way to escape from challenges. For instance, instead of engaging in responsibilities that will groom you for a leadership position, you will rather choose to stay at the manager level because becoming a leader means you have to work more and take much of the blames when things go wrong. And it is a position that is quite lonely.

Resurrection is a new life. Using the same example as above, you are willing to put in the hard work, show up early and close very late, and while your colleagues are watching football over the weekend, you are in a meeting with one of your superiors.

When a promotion comes, you won’t move at the same rate as the other of your mate, you will definitely be ahead of them because you paid the price, you refused the deliverance offered.

Taking another example from the scripture, God promised Abraham a son and when it looked like God’s word was taking time, he opted to the help offered by his wife – Sarah, and through her handmaid, Abraham had a son. But, this wasn’t God’s plan. Abraham, in this case, accepted deliverance. After much deliberation, he repented, as his chosen route wasn’t how God wanted to make him the father of nations. After following God’s process and nudging’s,  Isaac was born even at an age when Abraham’s body was considered too weak and Sarah too old. The birth of Isaac was the resurrection because it came with the promise of nations.

 Bringing it to our daily lives, there are promises and visions God has brought to you, and the establishment of them has taken so long that you wonder if you heard right.

You have two options, take up your own created vision and work on it (deliverance) or you keep at it until God’s word is manifested (resurrection).

Whether you choose deliverance or resurrection, God will be with you and your success won’t be stopped irrespective of your choice, but the joy of the resurrection, which will involve a bigger spread of your influence, won’t be achieved.

Taking thought from the story of T.D Jakes, how his ministry remained at a certain number for over seven years of his ministry. For someone else, he would have given up and go do something else. God wouldn’t have been very angry but probably give him another assignment. But he realizes that to be what God wants him to be, he would have to be passed through the furnace. And after the baptism of the furnace, resurrection follows. Looking at his ministry today and all the things they’ve done, you can agree that the waiting period was worth it.

In rounding up, the beautiful thing is that there is no resurrection without the death and burial.

Choose today what you will accept.