GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS (Part 2)

.  GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS (Part 2) 8^TH MAY

Acts 10:34-35

“And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed by Him”. AMP.

          To restrict God to your denomination is to put God in a box. God showed up in the house of Cornelius and smashed their way of thinking and their tradition back then in the first century. And so Peter addressing the body of Christ in Jerusalem had to say in the above bible passage “I now perceive” because he had had an experiential knowledge, he had seen an unusual manifestation that beat his imagination.

          Sometimes it’s amazing when we listen to ourselves as preachers saying “this is the place to be”, “this is the only place God can be seen”. That’s not the truth, the glory of God can be accessed anywhere as long as God is truly glorified,  God is truly worshipped and reverenced, and that’s what Peter was talking about, he said “I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons”. So God does not respect your title, He does not respect my title nor position. What God respect’s is the hunger in your spirit that’s what he went on to say in verse 25, whether your nation is the smallest (mind you, when He’s talking about nation He’s talking about tribes and tongues), whatsoever tribe you came out from, whatsoever country you find yourself is not an issue, whether you an American or a Briton. Sometimes we feel the anointing of God, the glory of God is residing in the United States, mind you, there are people in America, in Britain, in Germany, even in Israel that have no relationship with the Lord.

PRACTICAL ISSUES                                                                  

It is not an issue of the nation you come out from, nor the denomination you belong to, or the preacher you sit under. It is an issue of what is in your heart, your personal respect and fear, giving your reverence to God in the sense of seeing Him as holy and as awesome, not somebody you need to run away from, but somebody greater than your own imagination.

(Transcribed from the Fragrance of Glory, copy right 31^st March, 2012).