SP 4B : Will God Help Me ?

Another anxious thought is when you are in doubt of God's eagerness to help a person like you . Perhaps because of your sins , you think that God is far from helping you or that God has forsaken you . But the truth is that God is seeking to help you overcome your sins and failures in life . The scriptures declares ;  '' if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land '' 2 Chronicles 7: 14 

If you need the help of God , repent of your sins and ask God for forgiveness , and then amend your evil ways . After that ask God in prayer to help you in your success journey . God is eager to help you more than you can ever imagine . The reason is God made us for his peculiar purpose , and we cannot achieve that very plan of God on our on . 

God sees the need to help us at all times ,because the devil is set to fight against us and the vision of God for our life . God has promised to help us in so many ways in different portions of the Holy Bible . So to answer the question ,” Will God Help Me “ , you have to know the answer from the word of God , how God is willing to help us .

God has promised us in various ways how he wants to be our helper , but we need to know the conditions under which God helps his people .There are godly requirement that are very important prerequisites for God to help you. These are things you should do or things you are not suppose to do, because you need God’s help  . If God will help you indeed the following  terms and conditions apply . 

Trust God 

Trusting God to help you is of prime importance to God , if at all he has plans to help you . The Psalmist said ‘’ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. “ Psalm 121:1-2 God helps people who are eagerly expecting his help , this is very important to God .When we trust God we place value in God and in his capacity, trusting in God will prompt you to serve God with all your heart . 

To see that you help comes from God is a total trust and confidence in God’s unfailing arms . This means you believe for sure that God will help in life to be successful . Trusting in God is a strong motivation to pursue your vision in times of crises , when you feel helpless and there is no man to come to your aid . Consider this scripture , “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. ” Proverbs 3:5-6

Pray To God

The next thing that is a strong ingredient for God to help us is prayer , it is an art of inviting God to intervene in your human adventure . Anytime you pray ,it is a sign of dependence on God . God wants us to come to that point of realization that , we really need his help , that is the reason we call unto him in prayer .

Like the man Jabez who was suffering the pains of failure in life that brought sorrows , because of his name , which means “ pains or sorrow ” This man appeared honourable , yet had nothing in his honour , but tears and sorrows until he prayed to God for help . 

 “And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.” 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

 God answered his prayer , became blessed and successful in every area of endeavour . 

When you pray to God , your help will certainly come from the Lord , because he answers prayer . God himself made an invitation for us to pray .

 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”Jeremiah 33:3

The aspect of prayer cannot be underestimated when it comes to success . There are so many things only prayer can help you do . 

Have Faith In God 

Having faith in God is very important if God will help , that is the proof of your reliance upon God . Faith is a sign of our belief in the living God , and the capacity of our God to help us to be successful . If you are in doubt of what God can do , you cannot get God’s help . Consider the following portion of scripture ;

“ But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:6-8

Whenever you ask God to help you to succeed  in life , you must ask in faith .Asking in faith means , you believe that God has done it in your heart . You  don’t doubt in your mind , you are full of enthusiasm and you are expectant of the answer from God .

A faithless person on the other hand is full of doubts , and is double minded , when it comes to God’s provision of help .  The bible talks about praying a prayer of faith ,  “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. “ James 5:15 

It is not enough to pray if you do not have faith to receive answers , your faith is seen in your works , words , actions and things you venture into because you believe God will help you to succeed in doing them  .

Covenant With God 

God will help you when you walk in a covenant relationship with God according to his word . A covenant is a binding agreement between two , in which each party is obliged to keep the terms and agreements of the covenant . God agrees to bless us when we keep his commandments and do them . 

God does not want to have just a casual relationship with you , like a boy and girl in a friendly relationship . Rather God wants a covenant relationship with you like a husband and wife who has a covenant relationship of marriage through vows that binds them together in a solid matrimony . 

“  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: “ Hebrews 8:10

God’s covenant involves obeying the word of God and doing the will of God , and thereby attracting the blessings of God . Let's consider the following scripture , “ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. “ Deuteronomy 28:1-2 

Obey God

Live in obedience to the word of God , keep his commandments , do what the Lord God will minister into your heart , indeed you want to be successful like Joseph . Joseph refused to sleep with Portipha’s wife , because he was obeying the word of God . 

If you obey the word of God , you will not commit adultery , you will not steal , lie or dupe someone because you want to be successful in life . Desist from taking or giving out bribes because you want to be successful , just obey the word of  God . There is help for all those who obey the word of God at all times . 

The bible talks about enjoining good things because of obedience to God , “  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: “ Isaiah 1:19 Success is good , everybody wants to be associated with success , no one wants to be associated with failure . Success is a definition of achievement of dreams and visions in life. Anytime your dreams come to pass , it means you are successful .That is the good of the land that God’s word is talking about .  

God told Joshua ,” 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8 So obeying the word of God brings good success . Any form of success that is not based on obedience to the word of God , is not a good success ; it is a bad success .  

That is when you do bad things like lying, bribery , drug trafficking ,money ritual, prostitution , stealing and others to succeed . 

 

Help Others   

If you want God to help you , you must cultivate the habit of helping others . Helping other people who need your help is very important , because it is a seed sown into your own destiny . There is a scripture that is referred to as the golden rule  “   Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12 

In this portion of scripture we understand that helping other people will attract help to you . Like the portion of scripture that indicates that giving to others is reciprocal , 

“ Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38

 When you give people any form of assistance in kind or cash , you are sure to get it back according to the word of God . The reason giving to other people is important is because it is as good as giving to Jesus according to scripture . 

“ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:40 Doing good deeds to others means you are ministering to the need of God , that is to say you are doing the will of God . 

Helping others means God can use you to answer the prayers of many people who are praying to God for help . Anytime you help people, their prayers to God for help have been answered through you . That is the more reason why God will also help you , by using other people to come to your aid . 

Give Offerings And Tithes 

Giving tithes and offerings is God’s sure requirement for the blessings of success . It is important that you should do something that will invoke the blessings of the Lord upon your life . The Book of Malachi 3:10-11 ‘’ Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.’’

Giving tithes and offerings makes God open windows of heaven ,and unleash his blessings upon your work and vision that makes you successful . Giving for the course of God’s kingdom or for the welfare of the church of God is God’s desire and it will never go unrewarded . As matter of fact , it takes God’s blessing for a person to be successful in life .

Many people eager for success have struggled in vain , worked so hard from dawn to dust yet to no avail , all because they lack the blessings of God in their lives . So it is very important that every successful person should give something for the work of God . This will activate the blessing of God upon you to ensure success in your life .