Why do you need to meet with God? The reasons are many and can never be overemphasized, nor are they clichés. Let’s see a few.
1. God created you and only He can provide His reason for creating you
Facebook is a social media platform created by its founder to help people connect socially online. So also God created everything and everyone for a reason. As you read the word of God regularly, you will begin to understand the reason behind your existence, know if you are living according to your purpose of existence and if not, how to start walking in that purpose.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. – Jer 1:5, KJV
2. Time spent with God increases your spiritual muscles
Constantly being in God’s presence is one way to deal with the move of the flesh. You put the flesh under the check of the spirit. Learn to meet with God.
3. Helps you know what matters to God
Spending time with God reveals to you what truly matters to Him. God cares about people a lot. He doesn’t want anyone to perish and wants you to tell people about Him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. – John 3:16, KJV
4. You get an understanding of your identity as a child of God and the type of God you serve.
You are the child of a King – a mighty king, who made the earth so beautiful and full of many wonderful things for your benefit.
May the Lord reveal Himself more to you at every meeting time. Amen.
Prayer: God, thank you for the benefits of spending time with you. Help me spend more time with you and at every meeting time, reveal more of you to me. Amen in Jesus name.
Action point: Think of other benefits of being in God’s presence. Which do you like the most?
Declaration: I am decided for Jesus. I spend quality time in his presence.
Preparing For Year 2022 was taught by Rev. Dunamis Okunowo on the 26th of December 2021 at Shouts of Grace Center, Joke Plaza, Beside Trans Amusement Park, Bodija-UI Road, Ibadan.
In his teaching, Rev. Dunamis made mention of the following important points:
What you say becomes your experience. That is how powerful Words are. Therefore learn to speak right words, and also align your actions to your words.
Year 2022 is what you call it!
Most times, the problem of the believer is not that of lack of knowledge, but that of lack of corresponding actions. Your knowing translates to nothing until you are able to translate your intentions to actions. Until something is done, nothing can happen. It is not enough to have good intentions! Your good intentions don’t count; it is your actions that count.
Two Things You Need To Make Year 2022 Great
Your very strong decisions. Decisions help you build a strong will
Your corresponding actions. This is what actually translates your desires to results.
Some Decisions We Need To Make For Year 2022
1. Decide to increase your commitment to God
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. Exodus 23:25-26 (KJV)
There is always a reward for serving God. The bread that God blesses will never spoil or get exhausted. The blessing of your bread causes it to multiply (that’s what happened in the feeding of the 5000 by Jesus – Jesus blessed the bread and it multiplied). True prosperity is not in having enough for yourself, it is in been able to meet the needs of others. Your service to God guarantees your good health!
2. Decide to improve your library
Decide to maximize your time in 2022. Lay aside every distraction and time wasters in your life. The time wasters in your life could be movies, games, social media, etc. Decide to increase your learning power in 2022.
Learn to convert every gifting you have to money. Package your gifting and monetize it. Decide to be wealthy
3. Decide to increase in your giving
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11:24-25 (KJV)
It’s literally impossible to increase your earning without increasing your giving; this is because Kingdom prosperity is predicated on your giving.
The seed is for planting for the days to come. Do not consume your seed! Once your seed is in the ground, your harvest must come.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. Mark 4:26-29 (KJV)
We make decisions, and those decisions in turn make you.
In 2022, ensure you satisfy all levels of giving
Tithe
Offering
First fruits
Giving to your parents
Giving to your pastor
Giving to those in need
Giving to Kingdom projects
To listen to messages of Rev Dunamis, go HERE or HERE
Today is Oil For Today – Day 171. Let’s lift up our voice one more time as we pray to God! Watch Video on Youtube HERE. Check other days HERE.
Scriptures For Today
Oil For Today – Day 171
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:7 KJV
Prayer Points For Today
Oil For Today – Day 171
1. Let’s begin to worship and give thanks to God
2. Let your help attend to me oh Lord in Jesus mighty name
3. I refuse to be confounded in 2022 in Jesus name
4. I remove every distraction from my life in Jesus name
5. Every shame is eliminated from my life on Jesus name
6. I receive on-time help in marriage, ministry & every aspect of my life in Jesus name
7. God is sending reinforcement to me in every area of my life I need help in Jesus name
8. I refused to be confused in 2022 in Jesus name
9. My joy will be full in 2022 in Jesus name
10. Let’s begin to give God thanks for answers to our prayers
Confession For Today
Oil For Today – Day 171
The help of God is available to me in Jesus’ name. I see the different dimensions of God’s help in my life in 2022. On-time help is my portion all through 2022. I am focused on my assignment. Every distraction is eliminated from my life. I will not see shame in 2022. I belong to the company of the unashamed in Jesus’ mighty name.
Why is that prayer important? It is so important because if you marry wrong, everything can quickly go wrong and awry.
I tell young folks, be patient. Do not be in a hurry! Calm down!
Psa 46:10a (KJV) – Be still, and know that I am God…
The Message Translation is more apt.
Psa 46:10a (MSG) – “Step out of the traffic!
Farabale!
In English, Farabalestic!
Patience has virtues. Waiting works with time, and with time, intentions and motives are exposed.
Walk down the aisle, don’t run. Do not chase anybody to the altar, and do not be coerced into matrimony.
The wedding is ring is not supposed to be handcuff. It is a token of covenant, not an item of bondage.
Dear singles, never ever get involved with a man who doesn’t know God. He must not only know God, but he must also be a God chaser. He must be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Somebody or something would always fill him, he cannot be void, so you had better be sure it is the Holy Spirit. That way, your risk is minimized, because the love of God shed abroad in a man’s heart does wonders to his decisions and dispositions.
After the wedding, you are subject to his wisdom or to his whims and caprices. You are subject to his love or his lust. You are subject to his creativity or his perversion.
He becomes your head in reality and in imagination. The oil flows down, or the blows!
He lays hands on you to pray for you or lay blows on you to prey on you.
He stops you from attending church or stops you from missing church.
He takes you to the club or takes you to God.
He becomes your head or your headache.
She becomes your help or your hell.
She becomes your inspiration or your frustration.
She takes sexual stress off you or pushes you into the waiting hands of adultery.
She honors you or becomes your horror.
She nags you until you feel like a rag.
To be continued…
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY I will not marry wrong.
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, help me to get it right in marriage.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
How To Be Thankful As A Couple. There is so much we can be thankful about especially for those who are married.
We all are to be full of gratitude.
I remember in the early years of our marriage, I just decided to give God thanks and before I know what’s happening, two hours have passed.
We need to be creative with our thanksgiving and be grateful for things we normally overlook and take for granted. God moves in our midst when we are truly grateful and offer Him thanks for those things we see Him doing in our lives.
It is easy to judge those ten lepers in Luke 17:11-19. They were obviously being so ungrateful. This minute they were lepers and the next they were cleansed. If they were thinking, they should have first of all been grateful they were cleansed.
And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:12-14 (KJV)
I guess they became overwhelmed with many other things that needed to be done, the years wasted, the relationships lost, all other things they have lost, etc. They allowed themselves to be overwhelmed in their thoughts and that stole their ability to give thanks to God.
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God is excited when we put Him in remembrance and remember where we are coming from, what we were delivered from and how God saw us through whatever challenges we had.
As couples, let us be grateful for each other. Thanksgiving precedes God’s interventions. If you want to see God’s hands over your home and marriage, thank Him for His fingers. When you are grateful, you bring God on the scene.
You have things you should be grateful for. Don’t take any of the goodness of God for granted. Be thankful and praise His Name.
God bless our marriage.
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY I am grateful and I praise God for my life and marriage
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, I consciously set my heart to remember you for your goodness.
THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY Psa 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY Set out to be creatively grateful for those ‘little things’ God has done.
