Seeds of Destiny (Daily Devotional)

Monday, 23 November 2015
THE TRAGEDY OF BOTTLED OFFENCE

SCRIPTURE: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. – Ephesians 4:31

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You do not have a future with God if your past is not sorted out with men.

Many people spend much time in prayer but see little or no result. This is because prayer must be prayed according to Divine order if it must receive Divine answer.
One of the things that make prayer a religious routine without any meaningful and ‘impactful’ result is the lack of forgiveness or a heart bottled up with offences. If you want God to hear you or change your life and destiny, you must forgive anyone who has wronged you. The world is full of offences; anyone who has not been offended is not alive. If the devil wants to attack your destiny and he cannot give you beer to drink, he will send offences your way because he knows that the embittered man is going to the same hell that the drunkard and the fornicator are going. The future can never be accessed until the past is released. You do not have a future with God if your past is not sorted out with men.

Therefore, forgive the person you raised that wants to erase you. Many people thought that they have forgiven their neighbour but when they see the person or hear their names mentioned bitterness rises in their hearts. This is a sign that they have not yet forgiven that person. A robber on the cross was forgiven on the spot because God is a forgiving God. But human beings are different.

Make up your mind to be like God in whose image you were created.

Remember this: You do not have a future with God if your past is not sorted out with men.

ASSIGNMENT(S):
1. Have a large heart to accommodate all kinds of people.
2. Make up your mind to forgive people, even before the offences are committed.

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

PRAYER: Lord, help me to genuinely forgive everyone who has offended me, in Jesus’ Name.

DAILY READING: Ezekiel 45:13 to 46:24, 1 Peter 1:13 to 2:10, Psalms 119:33 to 48, Proverbs 28:11

QUOTE: When you fail to forgive the sins of others, your own sins and their consequences remain. Culled from 22 LAWS OF LIFE by Dr Paul Enenche.

DON’T FORGET TO ATTEND: The Healing and Deliverance Service by 9:30am tomorrow. Invite someone. God bless you as you do so.