Saturday April 03rd, 2021
Memorize: Hebrews 11:6 New Living Translations (NLT)
« And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. »
Read: Deuteronomy 28:3-13 Good News Translations (GNT)
3 “The Lord will bless your towns and your fields.
4 “The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.
5 “The Lord will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
6 “The Lord will bless everything you do.
7 “The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions.
8 “The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
9 “If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, He will make you His own people, as He has promised.
10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be His own people, and they will be afraid of you.
11 The Lord will give you many children, many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he promised your ancestors to give you.
12 He will send rain in season from His rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.
13 The Lord your God will make you the leader among the nations and not a follower; you will always prosper and never fail if you obey faithfully all his commands that I am giving you today.
Message:
If a father tells his son that he would buy him a toy, the little boy would go around telling his peers that he has a toy already, despite the fact that he is yet to receive it.
I recall promising a child that I would buy him a new pair of shoes. He went around telling everyone he will be receiving new shoes and while boasting, one of his friends said his own father had promised him new shoes as well. The latter was laughed at because everyone knew his father could not afford to buy him new shoes.
The boy however was so sure that he would have new shoes because his father had told him so. That was a boy whose father was known to be a pauper.
How much more you?
Everyone knows you serve the King of kings; it is clearly written in Luke 1:37 that with God nothing shall be impossible, yet you doubt His word that says you shall be the head and no weapon fashioned against you can prosper.
You doubt Exodus 23:26 which says that none shall be barren.
You should be excited when you read these great promises that your Father has made to you.
Would you be happy if your son shows doubt by looking for alternatives, after you have promised to provide for his needs? No.
That is why Hebrews 11:6 NIV says:
« And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him. »
Stop looking for substitutes for what God has promised you.
If God has said it, He will do it.
All you have to do is believe.
Many a time, we miss our miracles because we don’t have faith in His word.
While scientists will say “Prove it and I will believe you”, God says “Believe me, and I will prove it to you”.
Believe Him.
Stand on His word, boast about His promises.
Live in the fulfillment of the promise and He will hasten to bring it to pass.
If God made Sarah conceive at the age of ninety He can still give you a child.
No matter how hopeless the doctors say your case is. He will heal you.
If He fed an entire nation with manna in the wilderness, He can provide for all your needs.
If He parted the Red Sea so His children could pass through and then drowned their enemies in that same sea, He will take you out of difficult situations, deal with all you pursuers and level all your mountains.
Nothing is too hard for Him to do! Just believe.
Action point: Read today’s Bible text Deuteronomy 28:3-13 with excitement, knowing that the promises of God to you in that passage will surely come to pass.
Author: Pst E. A Adeboye
Texte edited by Naomie
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