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I Shall Not Die
I Shall Not Die
By Gabriel Agbo
Copyright – Gabriel Agbo 2019
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Unless otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations in this book are taken from the New Living Translation (NLT) version of the Holy Bible.
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It is not yet over. God has not finished with you. You are not dying now. Yes, you are not. This book is to reassure you that He still has a plan for your life. It doesn’t matter how dark things look. Here you will find many interesting chapters like: I SHALL NOT DIE, ALL POWER BELONGS TO GOD, GO BACK AND TELL HIM, PRAYER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?, DON’T BE AFRAID, DON’T RUN AWAY and GET MORE VESSELS.
There is no need to give up now. Don’t kill yourself. You must stand up, with faith and hope and fight on, face those challenges. Don’t be afraid and don’t run away from them. God has come to help you. Here you will also read how to resist the spirit of frustration, depression and death. Why is the rate of suicide rising? Any solutions?
Dedication
I dedicate this book to Maliah Khatoon and Sophia Kirkeiner. They have been instruments of blessing and a symbol of God’s faithfulness to his willingness and power to deliver. God wants us to live in total freedom and prosperity. May God bless you both and keep you!
Chapter One
I Shall Not Die
A child of God is not supposed to die anyhow. Yes, when you walk in the knowledge of a functional covenant with God nothing is permitted to take away your life prematurely. Nothing! Be it disease, demonic powers, evil, hardship, or whatever. Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing is permitted to terminate your life before fulfilling your destiny. Everybody has an assignment(s) that brought them into the world. God cannot just waste His time and resources making a wonderful creature like you. Also look at all the things – the time, resources, emotions, prayer, love and sometimes planning and expectations put into the process of bringing a baby into this world. Like your parents coming together, the relationship, your miraculous conception and formation in the womb, the preparations, your birth and your growth, etc.
Millions do not survive these stages, but you did! This clearly shows that there is a definite divine plan for your life. True. I recently overheard a respected gynecologist / surgeon, a professor, a dean of a collage of medicine saying that nobody, not even experts has totally understood what God did in the process conception and child-bearing. And immediately those words registered in my spirit. I remember my first daughter Joy was delivered in his clinic. My wife had been in labor for about fourteen hours and I believe they were getting ready deliver through cesarean section, when the baby suddenly began to come out. When the nurses call him on phone that the baby was already coming, he could not believe it until he spoke directly with my wife. I don’t exactly know what happened, but I suspect that with the position of baby he knew that it would take an operation to come through. But God overruled. Prayers were being poured on her and the baby for those fourteen hours until God did it. You can do all you know scientifically and medically, but it is only God that permits, perfects and natures life. I think it is also a standing belief in medicine. Every life must come from and end in Him. Even when you are treating or praying for a fruit of the womb, you must have it at the back of your mind that it is only God that can bring forth life. Yes, science is helpful, yes medicine is very great and always necessary, but it is still God perfects the outcome. You can apply everything that you know and it will still not work. And you also may not do anything at all and still things work out perfectly. It is God – that unseen hand. True.
Now, also look at all you’ve been through in life. Almost everybody has some painful stories to tell. Some have theirs characterized with protracted pains, ‘bumps’ of life, calamities, disappointments and regrets that though they are now successful, they still shed tears each time they remember what they have been through. Even presidents, business moguls, kings, celebrities, men of God are all in this category. So, you may not be wrong to describe this world as generally unkind. Once you are born, the world begins to unleash its unkindness on you. Yes, even great men like Jesus had their own fair share of pains and tears. Yet, in all these, an unseen hand kept you alive and going! I remember preaching like this many years ago and my boss, a very wealthy man in Lagos, with tears, sat me down and began to tell me all he went through in life and how God’s grace has miraculously kept him. I was couldn’t believe it. So with all this vast wealth and estates this man still had scares of pain and tears in his life. Yes, in the midst of all these, God has a purpose for your life.
You have a mission and when you eventually discover it and walk in the knowledge of God’s will for your life it automatically makes it impossible for your life to be truncated. When you locate and obediently function in your divine place, nothing; no sickness, no devil, no agent of Satan or situation and nobody is permitted to eliminate you before your time. The Psalmist understood this very well when he said,
Psalm 118:17
Yes, it is only the living that can tell the goodness of God. It is only the living that can give testimonies of God’s deliverance. It is only the living that can praise Him. Your staying alive after all those tough times, near-death situations, dangers, betrayals, accidents, impossible missions, encounters will certainly bring glory to God. That is the will of God. You must live to proclaim all he has done. You must not die now! Yes, like the Psalmist, you must refuse to die before your time. You must insist that the will of God be fully executed in your life. This is the only way His name will be glorified. When you die prematurely please don’t ever delude yourself that the will of God had been done. No way! I have problem with many statements that I see on obituaries today. Most proclaim the submission to the will of God, when actually they were against the will of God. They were caused by Satan or by our carelessness and disobedience or even lack of knowledge. The will of God is not for you to commit suicide. The will of God is not for you die by accident. The will of God is not for you to be incapacitated by that sickness. The will of God is not for you to die of depression or by sexually transmitted diseases or by demonic attacks. No. But unfortunately even Christians; who are supposed to know better also die this way. True! The word of God says that the will of God for us is to prosper, be in good health as our souls prospers.
You are fortunate to be reading this message now. You can refuse to die prematurely. You can refuse to die through that sickness, through that demonic attack, through that difficulty. Yes, you can! The choice is absolutely yours. The Psalmist said that he shall not die but live to proclaim the goodness of God. It was a declaration. He totally believed and also declared God’s will over his life. No wonder he lived out his life in ripe
