Seeds of Destiny (Daily Devotional)

Saturday, 21 November 2015
BITTERNESS: A HINDRANCE TO ACCESSING GOD

SCRIPTURE: And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses. – Mark 11:25

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Anything that embitters your heart imprisons your life.

Accessing God is a vital key to fulfilling destiny and becoming what God created one to be. Your destiny cannot be realised until God is accessed. This was why Jesus taught His disciples how to pray and access God (Luke 11:2).

However, access to God can be hindered and one of the things that hinder our access to God is a heart of ‘unforgiveness’.

Prayer is a means of accessing God and Jesus seemed to be saying that ‘when you stand praying’ in order to have access to God, you should forgive your neighbour. This implies that ‘unforgiveness’ hinders one’s access to God. ‘Unforgiveness’ in the heart makes prayer a fruitless exercise.

Anything that embitters your heart imprisons your life. The devil knows that forgiveness is essential to your life and destiny, so, he always multiplies bitterness through issues that provoke you and cause offences. He may not be able to make you fornicate or carry a gun on the street to rob people of their belongings but he wants to make your heart bitter against your neighbour.

Beloved, do endeavour to x-ray your heart. This is because apart from blocking your access to God through prayer, bitterness can take you to hellfire. Receive the grace to release anybody that must be released, in Jesus’ Name.

Remember this: anything that embitters your heart imprisons your life.

ASSIGNMENT(S):
1. Ask God to help you search your heart based on the revelation from today’s message.
2. Forgive everyone you are holding anything against in your heart.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE PRAYER - PART 2

PRAYER: Lord, I receive the grace to forgive anyone of anything that I’m holding against them. I make up my mind today to forgive everyone, in Jesus’ Name.

DAILY READING: Ezekiel 42:1 to 43:27, James 5:1 to 20, Psalms 119:1 to 16, Proverbs 28:6 to7.

QUOTE: Bitterness is a root that invites tragedy. Culled from 22 LAWS OF LIFE by Dr Paul Enenche.

DON’T FORGET TO ATTEND: The Pre-Convention Sunday Service in 6 over-flooded services by 6:00am, 7:20am, 8:40am, 10:00am, 11:20am and 12:40pm tomorrow. Endeavour to come to Church with your friends and loved ones. God bless you.