My Heart is Fixed

Saturday 3 October
READ: Psa. 16: 8 -11
MORE LESSON: Isa. 50:7; Dan. 1:8

The reason a lot of believers are unstable today in many areas of their lives is because their focus is not entirely on the Lord. Jesus said if your eye be single then your whole body will be full of light. (Matt 6: 22) Could it be that the instability in your career, prayer altar, business, job, family life etc, is as a result of not being focused on the Lord? The Psalmist said in Ps 16: 8, I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. David used the word, set to describe his positioning with God. To set is not just placing of a thing; it is a deliberate and precise placement of a thing or person. We must 'set' our focus on the Lord.

The time of pain or prosperity is when a man's focus is revealed. When in pain the real essence of who a man is and the focus of his heart is unveiled both to God and to men. Jesus also said to Martha ''Martha, Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her''. Luke 10: 41 – 42. When you set your heart on the Lord every other thing gets fixed automatically. The different facets of our lives get aligned and in order, nothing missing, nothing broken.

Daniel in the Bible was also faced with a situation that conflicted with his convictions about God. He could have overlooked the matter since everyone in his category had already compromised based on the prevailing circumstance but the Bible says in Dan. 1:8 that he purposed in his heart not to defile himself with the king's meat and dared the consequence of failing the test of looking good before the king. Can you also dare any consequence of not compromising in your place of work, in school, your political ambitions, relationships etc? Your sincere response will tell if indeed your heart is fixed in God. Resolve today that by the grace of God your heart and mind will be stayed on God. Isaiah said I have set my eyes like a flint, I shall not be moved. (Isa. 50: 7).

Prayer/Action
* Command every Satanic attraction around your destiny to loose their strength and bow out in the name of Jesus. 
* Ask God to help you maintain your ways before him permanently.
* Pray that no storm will make you sink in the waters of life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Every Pharaoh that has resisted my freedom from slavery shall perish in the sea of October, in the name of Jesus.