“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Luke 6:45, NIV).
Whatever we meditate on, and whatever we set our mind to dwell on, is something we will eventually speak. The tongue is powerful, and when we speak something it may come to pass. This can work for good or bad.
03
Mar
Hebrews 8:10
“…I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts…”
Many of us have been taught that we cannot trust our hearts. We quote verses like “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked…” (Jeremiah 17:9), not knowing that Jeremiah was referring to the man who had not received Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
I have had people come to me and say, “Pastor Prince, I don’t know what I should do with my life.”
“What is on your heart?” I asked one of them.
“I would love to work among children.”
“Then work among children!”
“But I am waiting on the Lord to tell me to do that.”
“Well, He has given you the desire, so go and work among children!”
“But the desire comes from my heart. How do I know if it is of God?”
My friend, once you are saved, you have a brand new heart (Ezekiel 36:26), and you can trust the promptings of your heart because God dwells in you and He leads you from within. And don’t worry because His promptings will never contradict His Word. It will lead you to good success.
Often, you find that when you follow your inner promptings, it is actually God who has put those desires in your mind and written them on your heart. I remember years ago when I approached one of our church leaders and told him, “I really think that you are called to be a full-time pastor.” It turned out to be a confirmation of what he already knew on the inside. You see, God was already leading him from within. Today, he is one of our full-time pastors.
If you enjoy something and desire to do it, then go for it! Go with the flow. God Himself says that He will guide us from within. Let’s not doubt Him. And don’t worry about the outcome. Your part is just to follow the flow. God’s part is to work in you both the willingness and the performance of it! (Philippians 2:13)
Beloved, because God has given you a new heart, He will write His desires on it. And as you fulfill these desires, you will bring forth fruit, and not wither and die. Whatever you do will prosper!
Thought For The Day
You can trust the promptings of your heart because God dwells in you, and He leads you from within.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:15-16
Being peculiar. That’s not something most of us work to achieve, is it? But, you know, we should.
God has called us to be peculiar—to stand out from the rest of the world as living proof of His power and His love (1 Peter 2:9).
He doesn’t, for example, want us to share the ailments of the world. He doesn’t want us to share their sickness and poverty and failure. He’s never wanted that for His people.
He gave us a physical illustration of that during the time the nation of Israel was held captive in Egypt. Pharaoh had refused to set the Israelites free, so God had allowed a thick darkness to cover the whole land. The darkness was so dreadful throughout Egypt that no one moved for three days.
“But,” says Exodus 10:23, “all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.”
What a thrilling example of how God wants us to live. We should be glorifying God by the miraculously victorious lives we lead. We should constantly have people telling us, “I’ve heard how God healed you,” or “I’ve heard how God prospered you and saved your children!”
So don’t hold back. Put the Word of God to work in your life and dare to receive the rich blessings that belong to those who believe. Start using the Word to draw boundaries around your life, to paint spiritual warning signs for the devil. Signs that say:
Off Limits! According to God’s Word, I don’t belong to you anymore. My family doesn’t belong to you. My health doesn’t belong to you. My money doesn’t belong to you. My ministry doesn’t belong to you. I belong to a different kingdom. Now, back off in Jesus’ Name!
Does that sound a little peculiar? Good. That’s exactly what God has called you to be!
Scripture Reading:
Exodus 10:20-29
01
Mar
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.
You may think that you are a nobody, maybe even a has-been or a loser in the eyes of the world. Take heart because God’s Word says that if you are not wise, not mighty or not noble according to the flesh, then you are a prime candidate for Him to call on! And when He begins to use you, you will see His favor, power and increase change your life.
In the eyes of the ancient world, Moses was the rising star of Egypt. The Bible tells us that in the first 40 years of his life, “Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds”. (Acts 7:22) But God could not use him then because he was too smart, strong and full of himself.
It was only 40 years later, after having been in the unglamorous desert of Midian, emptied of himself and thinking that he was a has-been, that God sent him to confound the might of Pharaoh.
The world may pass them by—the weak, the small, the forgotten and the losers, but God chooses them to confound those mighty in the world.
I know this to be true. As a little boy, I grew up facing rejection and ridicule because of my Indian-Chinese racial mix. And as a teenager, I was the butt of many jokes because of my stammering and stuttering.
When I was in my teens, I remember praying to God, “I don’t know what I can do for or give You, but You got me—spirit, soul and body.” I don’t know how many times I prayed that prayer. But I knew that God heard me because He called me. Only God would dare choose me, a stammerer and stutterer, to pastor a church for Him that has since grown to more than 30,000 members today.
I know what I was and where I came from. I know I have done nothing and can do nothing apart from His anointing and grace in my life.
My friend, when you think that you are weak and small compared to others in the world, that is when God can use you to do great and wonderful things for Him!
Thought For The Day
God chooses the weak, the small, the forgotten and the losers to confound those mighty in the world.
See what [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.
—1 John 3:1
Many people fail at marriage because they don’t love themselves, and therefore they have nothing to give in the relationship. They spend most of their time trying to get from their spouses what only God can give them, which is a sense of their own worth and value.
In my case, although I didn’t even know what love was, I married a boy of nineteen simply because I was afraid no one would ever want me. He had problems of his own and did not really know how to love me—so the pattern of pain in my life continued. I was repeatedly hurt in that relationship, which ended in divorce after five years.
Receiving the free gift of God’s unconditional love is the beginning of our healing, and the foundation for our new life in Christ. We cannot love ourselves unless we realize how much God loves us, and if we don’t love ourselves, we cannot love other people. We cannot maintain good, healthy relationships without this foundation of love in our lives.
Lord, I am amazed that You love me and desire me to be Your child. I receive Your love today and choose to love myself. Amen.
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As Enkay marks the 10th anniversary of her marriage to her soul mate Tim Ogboruche, she thought to take you on a journey to the throne of grace as she shares a bit of some her intimate moments with her maker in worship.
‘Ezem’ is Enkay’s expression of her favourite igbo songs presented in a medley. Anytime she sings these songs, the tangible presence of God is felt in the room as she eulogises the maker and giver of life, her ever present help in times of need.
Music produced by SMJ and arranged by Tim Godfrey of Rox Nation for Tehila Records.
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EZEM by ENKAY
Ezem (3x) na di ndu (My king is everlasting)
Onye nwe anyi ezitewo ndi muozi ya ka biakutem (For he has given his angels charge over me)
Onodu’m n’emetuya n’obi (Because everything that concerns me touches his heart)
Ezem (3x) na di ndu (My king is everlasting)
Adilips in chorus
Oji oku eri aja ( He that consumes sacrifices with fire)
Oku n’erere (Consuming fire)
Oku n’aza ekpere (The God that answers by fire)
Agiga na to agbu (He that sets the captives free)
Captain of the host of heaven
My shield and buckler
Enwerem enyi (I have a friend)
Nke na egbo nkpam nile (That meets all my my needs)
Ulo’m di anya karia kpakoando (whose home is beyond the moon and stars)
Mara na nka bu oke ihe omere ( Everything he has done for me)
Nke m ji na eti Halleluyah (makes me shout Hallelujah)
Adlips in last Chorus
King of kings
Lion of the tribe of Judah
You are seated in heaven and earth is your footstool
I bow before your throne
I worship at your feet
Eze
Ogbajiri igwe kpo ya nku (He that breaks iron like wood)
Akpoaza mee (My prayer answering God)
You are worthy Jesus
Ezem na adi ndu (My everlasting King).
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