Many of the younger generation hear of war but have never been to war including me, with the exception of those in the military and those living in the war-torn countries. Many do not know what it is to be a Prisoner of War (POW). Watching from a far distance like sitting in your office or sitting room or bedroom to watch what is happening in Syria and other countries affected by war is a totally different thing from experiencing it. Imagine you are doing well as a businessman, student or whatever you are doing presently, and you hear a loud blast and it is the building opposite you that got blown and everywhere is chaos in a twinkle of an eye. As you are about to run with others you got rounded up by the enemies, and you were all marched in a single file into a waiting army truck. And the next thing is you find yourself in an underground cell with your fellow students and top leaders in your country, I bet the first thing that would come to your mind is for you to wake up from this horrible dream.

Now you are following, imagine Daniel and his friends a prince in his father’s country turned into a slave overnight in Babylon. This is to tell us that being a Christian does not exempt you from troubles in this world as long as you are still alive but there is one thing you must be assured of that no matter what is happening that the God of the whole universe is surely looking out for you and will favour you when the time comes. That favour can come in form of allowing your enemies martyr you knowing that you are going to see Him as you close your eyes in death. The other favour from God can come in form of you being singled out by your enemies and giving you a position that would come with so many good things by the virtue of God’s gift in your life. My question is, that gift of God in your life how “faithful” and “diligent” have you been using it? Proverbs 18: 8 says, ‘A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men’. This is why as a child of God you confess, you must not be doing things in trial and error for our God is not a God of trial and error. He has given each of us gifts and talents that would make us exceptional in life and the ability to make wealth.

Are you still wondering what you should do as a young Christian? Beloved, I encourage you to go to God in prayer and hear for yourself what He would say concerning your purpose here on earth. The Lord’s desire for all us is to prosper in the works of our hands. One thing I want you to know is that not even the prison cell can stop what God has given you (Read about Joseph in Gen 39: 19 and Gen 40). Apostle Paul was also a man who was imprisoned most of his life until his death yet he wrote more books in the New Testament than any other disciple. What differentiates a child of God from an unbeliever is the presence of God. God was with Daniel and his friends (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego). No matter the situation you are in it does not matter, but what matters is your attitude, perspective, actions and most importantly whose report do you believe – God or the situation report. Beloved always maintain a positive attitude all the time even when around people who are negative. That way you will always see the power of God manifesting in your life both in the good and dark times. Have you been called to serve the public as a child of God, my dear you have to start somewhere but you must learn that a man/woman whom God chooses for His work must go through the fiery test and how does it come –  in form of those, you are working with hating, trying to frustrate your work, giving negative reports about you for no reason even though they earn more than you. You must learn how to trust God the more (Proverbs 3: 5 – 6), forgive (Acts 7: 59 – 60) and allow the Holy Spirit to guide your steps (Psalm 37: 23). When you complain and keep going from one pastor to the other for prayers without you understanding that this is the way God uses to deal with hidden pride, impatience, hostility, etc, then you start fighting the people instead of praying for them. You start making excuses for your failures and bear in mind that a man of excuses is already displaying failure. Stand up now and get moving and never again see yourself as a prisoner of war.