Wednesday 18 February
READ: Matt 14: 14-25
MORE LESSON: Heb 12: 1-2
When a situation presents itself to us, it is not yet a problem until we choose to see it as a problem. When you are faced with a challenge in life it is not necessarily yet a problem; it is the way you handle it that will determine whether it has become a problem or not. A situation can be an opportunity or a problem depending on how you see it. There is the popular story of the shoe company that sent a sales person to Africa in the early times of colonialism. When the sales person got to Africa, he realised that the people did not wear shoes, so he sent back to the head office in Europe that Africa is no market for shoes because the people did not wear shoes. After a while another sales person was sent and when he got to Africa, he saw that none of them wore shoes. He immediately sent to the headquarter office and said, 'Ship all the shoes here. This is a great market of people that do not have shoes but each need one.'
Jesus our Lord never saw situations as problems but as opportunity for God to be glorified. When a multitude followed Him into the wilderness and they needed to eat and there was no food for them, Jesus had a crisis in His hands. Even Jesus was faced with a challenge, so no man is too big to be faced with challenges. But Jesus didn't see this as a problem but as an opportunity for God to be glorified. He went ahead to feed five thousand men and many women and children with five loaves and two fish.
After this Jesus went to pray, and the disciple left with the ship to the other side. When He finished praying, He needed to get to the other side but there was no ship. But the Lord Jesus always saw and thought possibilities, not problems. So without any panic, He began to walk on the water. He didn't see the water as a problem but as road. Satan always wants you to panic when faced with a challenge but the correct attitude of a believer is that when there is a challenge, you are not to see the problem but to see Jesus.
Whatever happens to you in life, if you can keep your sight on Jesus, I assure you that greater works than He did you can do. . There is no challenge you cannot deal with, there is no distress that you cannot overcome as long as your eyes are on Jesus.
Prayer/Action
* Declare that every challenge on your path way will become a ladder for going up.
* Command every crooked place to be straighten now.
* Ask God for the courage and faith of Caleb to take over your mountain.
PROPHETIC PRAYER
Oh Lord, I approach the throne of grace today to find help and mercy for the hour of need, in Jesus’ mighty name.
READ: Matt 14: 14-25
MORE LESSON: Heb 12: 1-2
When a situation presents itself to us, it is not yet a problem until we choose to see it as a problem. When you are faced with a challenge in life it is not necessarily yet a problem; it is the way you handle it that will determine whether it has become a problem or not. A situation can be an opportunity or a problem depending on how you see it. There is the popular story of the shoe company that sent a sales person to Africa in the early times of colonialism. When the sales person got to Africa, he realised that the people did not wear shoes, so he sent back to the head office in Europe that Africa is no market for shoes because the people did not wear shoes. After a while another sales person was sent and when he got to Africa, he saw that none of them wore shoes. He immediately sent to the headquarter office and said, 'Ship all the shoes here. This is a great market of people that do not have shoes but each need one.'
Jesus our Lord never saw situations as problems but as opportunity for God to be glorified. When a multitude followed Him into the wilderness and they needed to eat and there was no food for them, Jesus had a crisis in His hands. Even Jesus was faced with a challenge, so no man is too big to be faced with challenges. But Jesus didn't see this as a problem but as an opportunity for God to be glorified. He went ahead to feed five thousand men and many women and children with five loaves and two fish.
After this Jesus went to pray, and the disciple left with the ship to the other side. When He finished praying, He needed to get to the other side but there was no ship. But the Lord Jesus always saw and thought possibilities, not problems. So without any panic, He began to walk on the water. He didn't see the water as a problem but as road. Satan always wants you to panic when faced with a challenge but the correct attitude of a believer is that when there is a challenge, you are not to see the problem but to see Jesus.
Whatever happens to you in life, if you can keep your sight on Jesus, I assure you that greater works than He did you can do. . There is no challenge you cannot deal with, there is no distress that you cannot overcome as long as your eyes are on Jesus.
Prayer/Action
* Declare that every challenge on your path way will become a ladder for going up.
* Command every crooked place to be straighten now.
* Ask God for the courage and faith of Caleb to take over your mountain.
PROPHETIC PRAYER
Oh Lord, I approach the throne of grace today to find help and mercy for the hour of need, in Jesus’ mighty name.
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