Divine - Turn - around

Friday 22 January
READ: Psa. 126: 1 – 6
MORE LESSON: Rev 21: 5

God's intervention is the power that reverses the negative situations of life. When God shows up in a man's situation, positive change is inevitable. God helps a man by turning his situation around. Have you seen a slave become a prime minister in a matter of minutes as it happened to Joseph in Egypt (Gen 41: 40 – 44). Only divine intervention can perform such a feat in a man's life. God has done it before and He can do it again. I pray that God will use your life to show that He is still in the business of turning things around.

The Bible says that when God turned again the captivity of Zion, it was like a dream (Psa 126: 1). Your situation can experience miraculous turn-around such that will look as if you are dreaming. Have you ever seen a turn-around so radical, sudden and high-lifting that it is not only the onlookers but even the recipient of that blessing finds it hard to believe? When God invades a situation, the impossible becomes possible, and the miraculous becomes common place. God is about to give you a positive turn-around, so divine that both you and the people around will be wondering whether it is a dream.

The children of Israel had been in captivity in Egypt for about 430 years. It looked as if their captivity would never end. Some of them were born and died in captivity and never knew freedom. However, when Jehovah visited them, He turned the situation in one day and brought them out of Egypt with His mighty hand (Deut 7: 8). He brought them out also with great substance and people who had been slaves for 430 years became wealthy possessors of property, silver and gold. Also when Israel was in captivity in Babylon for seventy years and it looked like there was no hope, it only took God one day to turn things around. Whenever men are recounting the story of a turn-around, they get to a point where they say, '. . . then one day.' Divine turn-around always has its 'one day'; captivity of many years ends one day. Dreams and expectations of many years also happen 'one day'; your 'one day' is here, in Jesus’ name. Finally, note that the Scripture says: When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion. The word is 'when' not 'if', and this signifies a certainty of occurrence. It is only a matter of time, your turn-around will happen. Turn-around is turn by turn. I prophesy in the name that is above all names that it is your turn for a divine turn-around.

Prayer/Action
* Today I receive a divine turn-around, by the force of the Spirit, in every negative situation of my life.
* I receive a divine intervention for a divine turn-around of every captivity, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, only the counsel of the Lord shall stand in my matter this year and this day, in the mighty name of Jesus

Divine Placement 2

Thursday 21 January
READ: Psa. 16:1-11
MORE LESSON: Gen 13: 8 - 18

We started yesterday to point out that divine placement is the key to fulfilling God's purpose and destiny for our life. There are several factors that make a man to always find himself in the pleasant places of destiny. Taking counsel from the Lord, meditation, thinking constructively, staying with the Word of God and hearing from the Lord for every step are very vital to a crisis-free destiny.

One great factor of right placement in life is shown in Ps 16: 4, their sorrow shall be multiplied that hasten after another god! One powerful secret of ease and safety in life and destiny is following ONLY the Lord. A good way to have multiplied and exponential sorrow in life is to keep pursuing things and not the Lord who is the Giver of all things. When a man decides for ONLY the Lord and has no other god, he is sure to be rightly placed. Right placement comes easily and naturally to the man whose heart is sincerely looking for the posting that puts him close to God. When you are looking for the location and position where you will be able to serve God, spend time with Him, please Him and do His will, you will always find yourself in the right place in life. The centre of God's purpose and assignment is always the right place in life. According to Psa. 16: 11, Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right 
hand there are pleasures for evermore.

A man seeking God's presence as his priority in life cannot wander into the path of destruction. It is the man that is looking for a place where he can gratify his own selfish desires that will miss divine placement in life. Sorrow awaits the people who do not seek the Lord but hasten after another god – which could be money, fame or worldly pursuits. This is what happened to Lot who chose the plain of Jordan which looked good to him but he didn't know that it was already marked for destruction. That was unlike Abraham, who was seeking the place where he could have God's covenant over his life fulfilled, so he stayed in Canaan and inherited all the land.

When a man is given a pleasant placement in life, such a man has gladness, glory, joy and rest without any hellish situation as it is written in verse 9, Therefore my heart rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope. When you enjoy divine placement, you will have fullness of joy and pleasures evermore (Psa. 16: 11). You will not miss God in destiny, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Dethrone everything that has become idol in your heart, which may mislead you in destiny. 
* Pray that God will take over your heart and be your singular pursuit in life.
* Pray that as you follow after God with all your heart, He will lead you to pleasant places in destiny.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
No force or power in 2016 that is against my moving forward shall survive beyond today, in the mighty name of Jesus

Divine Placement 1

Wednesday 20 January
READ: Psa. 16:1-11
MORE LESSON: Psa. 78:52-55

Where we are in life is a very important factor that determines what we get and become. You need to be sure you are in the right place all of the time. Being in the right place is not automatic; it is made possible through divine direction. It is divine placement that can give a man the right placing with adequate portions. Unless a man is divinely located in life, he cannot be sure of good output for all his input. Godly heritage is an off-shoot of good measure which a man gets when he obeys God's injunction that says, give and it shall be given unto you…. There are several other factors that can give a man right placement in life. Psa. 73:24 says, Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. To be rightly placed in life you need to seek God's counsel, and allow Him to decide for you by giving Him the right to have the final say concerning every issue of your life.

Meditation, thinking deep and taking everything to the place of prayer makes you a Christian who always knows what to do. Verse 7 of our text says, I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. Meditating, praying and waiting on God in night vigils give us divine placement. We must be like Isaac who waited on the Lord in meditation and prayers to receive His God ordained wife, 
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming: Gen. 24:63. Verse 8 of our text says, I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Focusing on the Lord and divine closeness is another factor that guarantees the pleasant place. When you set the Lord before you, you must command the presence of the Lord and abide in it to have God's mind concerning you. Today’s text also says, Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore: v 11. One of the advantages of walking with the Lord is that He will show you what belongs to you, where to live, where to work, who to marry, what clothes to wear, which occasion to attend e.t.c. Psa. 23:3 says, He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Anyone who lives in God can be sure of right paths in life.

I pray for you today that your portion in life will not be lost nor given to another person. The Lord will make your life and destiny a pleasant place forever, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Ask the Lord to be your God everyday of your life.
* Give the Lord the permission to choose for you in all things.
* Rebuke every force that is responsible for wrong placement and declare that they no longer have power over you.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
My glory shall shine globally like the sun in 2016, prevail over darkness like the stars and burn my enemies like fire, in Jesus mighty name.

Divine Placement 1

Wednesday 20 January
READ: Psa. 16:1-11
MORE LESSON: Psa. 78:52-55

Where we are in life is a very important factor that determines what we get and become. You need to be sure you are in the right place all of the time. Being in the right place is not automatic; it is made possible through divine direction. It is divine placement that can give a man the right placing with adequate portions. Unless a man is divinely located in life, he cannot be sure of good output for all his input. Godly heritage is an off-shoot of good measure which a man gets when he obeys God's injunction that says, give and it shall be given unto you…. There are several other factors that can give a man right placement in life. Psa. 73:24 says, Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. To be rightly placed in life you need to seek God's counsel, and allow Him to decide for you by giving Him the right to have the final say concerning every issue of your life.

Meditation, thinking deep and taking everything to the place of prayer makes you a Christian who always knows what to do. Verse 7 of our text says, I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. Meditating, praying and waiting on God in night vigils give us divine placement. We must be like Isaac who waited on the Lord in meditation and prayers to receive His God ordained wife, 
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming: Gen. 24:63. Verse 8 of our text says, I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Focusing on the Lord and divine closeness is another factor that guarantees the pleasant place. When you set the Lord before you, you must command the presence of the Lord and abide in it to have God's mind concerning you. Today’s text also says, Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore: v 11. One of the advantages of walking with the Lord is that He will show you what belongs to you, where to live, where to work, who to marry, what clothes to wear, which occasion to attend e.t.c. Psa. 23:3 says, He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Anyone who lives in God can be sure of right paths in life.

I pray for you today that your portion in life will not be lost nor given to another person. The Lord will make your life and destiny a pleasant place forever, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Ask the Lord to be your God everyday of your life.
* Give the Lord the permission to choose for you in all things.
* Rebuke every force that is responsible for wrong placement and declare that they no longer have power over you.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
My glory shall shine globally like the sun in 2016, prevail over darkness like the stars and burn my enemies like fire, in Jesus mighty name.