ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.
Thursday September 19th, 2024.
Topic : Factors That Will Help You Control Things.
Memory Verse : 1 Thessalonians 5:19. Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Bible Reading : 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 TPT. Key Verse: v17.
Let joy be your continual feast. Make your life a prayer. And in the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this is God’s perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.
Because we are born of God we live a different type of life here on earth. A normal human being will always rejoice when things go his way and at some other times, circumstances and situation of things around him will determine his disposition which may turn gloomy. But a believer is not a normal person and as Pastor Chris rightly said, ‘we live by different set of rules’. As people of God, to us joyfulness is a lifestyle that is not regulated by circumstances. This is because joy is a fruit of the Spirit. It is key to carrying God’s presence. The Spirit of God does not operate in an atmosphere of sorrow and heaviness of the heart. When the enemy wants to destroy or finish any individual, one of the faculties he focuses his attacks on is the faculty of joy. V15 here admonishes us to feast on it or feed our spirit man with it as to be healthy or sound in our minds and to guard against enemy creeping in. Joy is the appetiser that lays the foundation for the word of God to be effective in our lives.
Joy prepares us for the next phase in our prayer life which is thanksgiving. This is a second requirement for anyone to appear before the God of the universe and get result anytime anyday. “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:4,6 KJV. To be careful here means being troubled, worried or anxious because of any given situation, simply because we are sure that the will or plan of God over our lives which is forever good will always prevail when we keep our trust in him.
On a very important note we have to live praying as people of God because therein lies our strength. In prayer, we live a life of constant connection with heaven which makes divine signals (intelligence) and instructions available to us on a platter of gold. This means that we have to live as mobile altars, men who has become an extension of heavenly government here on earth. “Confess and acknowledge how you have offended one another and then pray for one another to be instantly healed, for tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer! Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years! Then he prayed again and the skies opened up over the land so that the rain came again and produced the harvest.” James 5:16-18.
Prayer : Thank you Father God because I am redeemed that I may rule my world. Help me by your Spirit to always create the right atmosphere for the Holy Spirit to operate anywhere I find myself and under any circumstances in Jesus wonderful name… Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : John 17:1-26.
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