Ua amata le Tausaga Fou, ma ou te fia faamanuia atu ia te outou uma 2015!
A o le aiga, uo, ekalesia po o faalapotopotoga Kerisiano e auina atu o latou moomooga o le Tausaga Fou, they always write something like: ‘this shall be a year of Jubilee’, ‘it shall be a year of the breakthrough’ or ‘supernatural miracles will come your way’.
I nai tausaga ua mavae, when this trend started, I was enthusiastic and I thought: “ioe, here it comes! This year will be a year of jubilee and the breakthrough!” But what I expected and wanted to happen, didn’t happen, and I became a little disappointed. Every year I became enthusiastic again, until about two years ago, that’s when I thought “here we go again…” It’s a little bit sad, because of one statement we all get excited and enthusiastic, but that’s only temporary. Because a few days later, most of us have forgotten all about it. Lea, that our soul; our emotions and feelings have been touched and not our spirit. These religious words are just motivational words that people want to hear.
It’s like a gramophone record that is stuck and repeats itself
Because let’s be honest, would there ever be a New Years wish, that would say: “It shall be a tough and difficult year. You will experience persecution by your family, uo, masani, colleagues etc. but you must hold on to the Word and keep walking in His way”. Leai… I think this New year’s wish shall never come….
O le a le mea e tu'u ai? Because this wish shall not satisfy or please, the ears of the people. That’s not what people want to hear, although these words can be very encouraging and can prepare someone for the hardships that will come. Ae paga lea, we live in an age, where almost everyone want to please others and only want to speak positive, uplifting and motivational words.
Is it bad to say that this will become a year of the breakthrough? Leai, not at all. But what is that breakthrough exactly?
Spiritual attacks of the devil
Tagata uma, who becomes toe fanauina, has to deal with problems, sauaga, opposition, tetee a tagata, attacks of the adversaries of God (le tiapolo, temoni) ma isi. These problems, sauaga, resistance and/or attacks, will shape you as le foafoaga fou. O lena la, you will mature and grow up into the image of Jesus Christ.
E le iloa oe e le lalolagi
If you are a born again Christian and walk after the Spirit, then you have to deal with this, Pe e te manao i ai pe leai. Because you no longer belong to the devil and his kingdom, but you have become an enemy of the devil. And by becoming an enemy of the devil, you have also become fili o lenei lalolagi. O le world doesn’t like you toe, because they don’t like the One, O loʻo nofo i totonu o oe: Iesu Keriso.
But when you keep on walking in the Word and hold on to the Word, then you shall be an overcomer and every day shall be a day of spiritual breakthrough. Because you shall overcome by speaking the words of God and by being a doer of the Word.
You shall not be moved anymore by situations, tulaga, or by the behaviour and attacks of people. It may not be the breakthrough, that the world defines as breakthrough. But it shall be a spiritual breakthrough in your everyday life.
I understand, that many people love to hear statements, that will encourage their soul and touch their emotions and feelings.
Ae a e savali i tua o le Agaga, then you don’t need these statements anymore. Aua e te iloa, O ai o loo e iai ia Keriso. Aso uma, when you open the Word and study the Word, the Word shall encourage your spirit. Aso uma, the Word and the Spirit shall teach and guide you into all truth, so that your spirit shall mature.
Ete iloa faaperetania, that as long as you stay in Jesus Christ, you have to deal with resistance and persecution of people, and the devil and demons. If you experience a breakthrough in a certain situation, then another situation (or problem) shall arise again. This will never stop! Na pau le eseesega o, that the more you grow, the less it will affect you and the easier it becomes to overcome it.
The real breakthrough has already taken place
Kerisiano, o ē savavali i la le tino, dwell upon such statements of men. They keep using these statements because they don’t fully realise O Ai Latou te faatasi ia Iesu Keriso. Ae o Kerisiano, who are born again and walk after the Spirit, know that the real breakthrough for man, tupu, when Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead. Ioe, Na faatoilaloina e Iesu le tiapolo ma took his key and gave it to those, who would believe in Him and become sons of God.
Ua tuuina atu i tagata le avanoa e toe faalelei ai ma le Atua, ia i ai se sootaga ma Ia, e ala mai ia Iesu Keriso, ma fanauina e Ia i le agaga, i le mana o le Agaga Paia. O le mea moni, e afio Lona Agaga Paia i totonu ia te oe, ma o oe lava nofo ia Iesu Keriso i Nofoaga Faalelagi. O le mea lena ou te faaigoaina, ose manuia moni!
Filemu ia te ia
E tatau ona i ai sou uiga faaalia o le faafetai ma le maoae ia te Ia. E tatau ona e avatu pea ia Iesu le viiga ma le mamalu, ma faafetai atu ia te Ia i aso uma, e ui lava i tulaga, tulaga poʻo faʻafitauli o loʻo e feagai. E tatau ona e iloa o nei tulaga ma faafitauli o le a faʻaogaina oe.
O tulaga faigata po o faafitauli o le a atili ai ona e malosi ia Keriso, pe a e tumau i le Upu.
A e nofo i le upu, e te maua le filemu ia te Ia, ma o le a mafai ona e tu i tulaga uma.
E tatau ona e faafetai atu pea ia te Ia i lea tulaga, aua o lou malosi lena.
Ou te faamoemoe o se tausaga lenei, e te tatalaina le Upu, ma suesue i le Upu. Ina ia e iloa, o ai moni lava oe ia Iesu Keriso. Ia e tuputupu a'e i le Upu ma tupu a'e i le faatusa o Iesu, ma o le a savavali faapei o Ia.
Pipiimau i le mea moni ma aua le fiu! E ui lava i tulaga, tulaga, faafitauli po o tagata.
Ou te tatalo ina ia tatalaina e ekalesia i le lalolagi atoa le Upu ma folafola atu le upu moni. Nai lo le laugaina o lauga faaosofia matagofie charismatic, e fiafia i taliga o tagata, ae aua le ogatasi ma le finagalo o le Atua.
‘Ia fai ma masima o le lalolagi’
