Seniors with the Finger of God

By Ivy Mix

This book will help you to be strong and healthy God's Way. Make you productive and creative in your golden years as well as any age.
People think that after middle age, they are finished and have nothing to offer the world. All the patriarchs in the Bible started well after forty, and our Beloved Jesus started after he was 30.

Do not retire, but "re-fire" and download all that you know and the New Life that God will put into you. Your name will go down in the annals of history, that the next generation benefited from you, that the world was a better place because of you.

This book will help you to be strong and healthy God's Way. Make you productive and creative in your golden years as well as any age. There are prayers that you use every day at the end of the book which are health and age elixirs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prayer M. Madueke
• Release date: Apr 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005353841

Book preview

introduction

WHO IS A SENIOR CITIZEN?

Simply put, a senior citizen is an elderly and distinguished person; one who has retired from active service with higher standing or rank. Senior citizens, mostly retired, occupy privileged status attained through lengthy and dedicated service to maybe the government, multinational or private companies, corporate organizations, etc. Most senior citizens withdraw from active services to a private life.

While millions of distinguished people retire from active services every now and then, only a handful few stand out as senior citizens who are capable of providing immeasurable counsel and guidance to younger generations. The reasons are not farfetched. Through vast experiences, they prepare themselves always for present and future challenges. Preparedness distinguishes them from rest of the citizens, especially citizens who get tired once they are retired, or the ones that are retired untimely even when they are still capable to work or serve.

In Daniel 5:1-9, something unusual happened. Belshazzar the king of Babylon made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels, which his father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem. The king, his princes, wives, and concubines drank in them and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon, whosoever shall read this writing, and shows me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

From this story, we can interpret the quintessence of senior citizenship. We can state unequivocally that senior citizens are people, kings or rulers run to for counsel or guidance especially in time of distress or trouble. They are often regarded as the wise men of the society and prominent stakeholders. In times of great difficulty, problem and impossibility, experienced senior citizens are sought for and possibly reassigned to duty.

Prevalent troubles in our nation have continued to change the countenance of our leaders, and like Belshazzar, their thoughts have continued to plague them. The joints of their loins have loosened, thereby disorganizing the knees and wheels that would move the nation to greatness. Presidents, leaders and citizens are all wailing over problems that have defile solutions because of failures of our leaders who have usurp divine foundations. National offices are filled with occult men and women who conspired to reject experienced godly senior servants that God chose to deliver nations. Such also explains why educated illiterates, evil worshippers, idolatrous men and women who conspire against the righteous and true worshippers govern many developing nations.

In the story of Daniel, we are reminded of similar activities of such evil men and women who would do anything to destroy God’s elect. They reasoned among themselves, ‘We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.’ Then they suggested to the king, ‘Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.’ It was not long, it became clear that their target was to eliminate Daniel (see Daniel 6:3-5, 8, 15-16).

Handwriting on the wall of many people’s lives, families, communities and nations has eluded the understanding of our professionals. You may have been retired early without justifiable reasons, or perhaps because of your race, tribe, out of hatred, envy or your relationship with God, but that is not the end of life. You only need the Spirit of God to strengthen you. Otherwise, you may die in sorrow and go to hell. The good news is that your story can be like that of Daniel. God is able to remember you, reemploy, settle and establish you in His own way beyond your imagination.

God can use someone or some circumstance to introduce or reintroduce you to the nation. Someone who knows your worth may speak about you before the new king just as the queen spoke about Daniel before Belshazzar the king of Babylon (see Daniel 5:10-12). She had to remind the king that there was a man of wisdom and understanding in his kingdom. In the same vein, God is able to cause your name to resonate in the ears of people in power for a new business breakthrough or opportunity would emerge. When God opens your book of remembrance, those who have forgotten you can suddenly remember you and consequently reintegrate you into the government. God can also cause people you helped or worked with before to remember you.

We saw this pattern again in the story of Joseph. While in prison, Joseph interpreted a dream the king’s chief butler had in prison. Days later, when Pharaoh had a troubling dream that no man in the whole of Egypt could interpret, God caused the chief butler to remember Joseph. For this reason, Joseph was released from prison and subsequently honored (see Genesis 41:9-14, 37-44).

Senior citizens who are connected to God through repentance cannot be retired or get tired. God is able to elevate you at the appointed time and the nation will remember you again. A political puzzle or problem that only you can resolve will bring you back to relevance. Your faithfulness cannot be forgotten forever. The nation will seek for you very soon for that which only you can do through God. No matter where the wicked have pushed you to, they must look for you until they find you. As you remain with God, keep serving Him and He will deposit His wisdom, knowledge and power in you to be different from others. Your wisdom will cause everyone to respect you, prefer you above others and take you to a place of rest where you would command respect above your enemies.

Nevertheless, if as a senior citizen you have not surrendered your life to God through Christ, do so now and your name will enter into the book of life. In a time of uncertainty, the queen remembered Daniel as a man in the kingdom, who worked and was retired young in the days of the king’s father. She remembered Daniel as a man with light and understanding and wisdom like no other among the people still in the active service at the time. She remembered Daniel as a man whom king Nebuchadnezzar had made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers in his time, but was retired out of envy. She remembered Daniel as a man with an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding, an interpreter of dreams and showing hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts (see Daniel 5:10-12).

Working for long years and retiring is not enough to qualify you as a good senior citizen. Experience and wisdom are among the qualities of true senior citizens. There is a reason you are preferred above the rest of the citizens. In the case of Daniel, an excellent spirit was found in him. He was faithful to God regardless of threats to his life. He was strong in the Lord, not in witchcrafts, occultism, injustice or wickedness (Ephesians 6:10). How about you?

chapter one

UNCONVERTED SENIOR CITIZENS

A good number of senior citizens retire from active services seamlessly but without relationship or any encounter with God. This is a dangerous trend. To such people, their problems may have just started immediately after retirement. During the years of service, such people are normally known to be very powerful, feared and worshipped as God and had everything good working for them. However, they despise God, His Word and His servants. They go after vanity, follow and serve other gods, takes people’s