Applying your Heart to Wisdom 1

Thursday 28 April
READ: Psa. 90:10 - 12
MORE LESSON: John 9: 4

The Bible says, So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom: Psa. 90: 12. This scripture is a very important one in mastering the principle of impactful living. Many people use this scripture to mark birthdays and other events, which is a good thing to do. But the scripture talks about numbering our days and not just numbering our years. It is therefore important to understand the holistic meaning of this scripture so that we may get the wisdom hidden in it. The Bible directly links numbering our days with being wise. So how do we number our days?
One of the troubles of today is that many people are not good managers of their days and before they know it the days of their lives slip through their hands such that they can't account for what they have done with them. If a man allows each day to be wasted without accounting for how he spends it in a worthwhile way, he will realise that by the end of his life he has more wasted days than achievements. This is the issue that bothered the psalmist to the point of prayer in the text of today. This Psalm was written by Moses but must have been prayed also by David who was a king and noticed that so many activities and people contended for his day and if he was not wise, he would become so busy while little or nothing was achieved for God and for his purpose in life. This is the reason you also have to evaluate each day and look at all you do. Do you maximise each day? What are the achievements that you have with the resources of each day? If you are asked to pen down the activities of the day, how many of them will please the heart of God? This is the reason you have to write down a plan and schedule for your day and achieve what matters for each day. It is using your days well that results in using your years well.
One of the treasures in life is time. Whatsoever wastes your time wastes your life. If you are wasting your own time, you are wasting your own life. God has a fixed time for everybody; there is a day that it will be said 'time up' for you in life. Your life at that point will be a summary of all you have used your days to do. It is important to know that in the issue of living, it is not how long that is important as how well. Spend the days of your life glorifying God, impacting lives and fulfilling purpose. Ask God to give you wisdom not to waste your day but to spend each day doing God's will and benefiting humanity.

Prayer/Action
* I receive wisdom not to waste my day but to spend it well to God’s glory.
* I forbid the activities of any one spirit or agent of darkness sent to waste my day, in Jesus’ name.
* I declare that I shall not be wasted in destiny, in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
All stubborn pursuers of my life, I command you to fall and die, in the name of Jesus.

The Power of Godly Results

Wednesday 27 April
READ: Luke 7:19-23
MORE LESSON: John 9:13-25

Getting results in life is very important. When people doubt who you are or what you say, it is only the results you have to show that can speak for you and silence the critics. When John the Baptist was persecuted and began to doubt, he sent his disciples to Jesus to enquire whether or not He was truly the Messiah they were expecting. Jesus didn't argue with John's disciples to prove to them that He was the Messiah. He just showed them the results of a Messiah: And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached: Luke 7:21-22.
As believers you should not be interested in argument or point-proving, you should rather pray to God for the power to get results. When people criticise you or your ministry it is only the results that God gives you that silence the critics. It is a very wise man that prays and works hard to get results God's way. It is, however, important to say that you must not just seek results, you must seek results God's way. Many people want results so much that they do ungodly things to get them. Any result that is contrary to the way of the Lord will eventually waste. The people of the world merely celebrate results, not caring how the person gets such. A child of God should not be interested in any kind of result, he must make sure he gets results God's way.
When Jesus opened the eyes of a man born blind and the Pharisee told the man to stop talking about Jesus because they didn't like Him, defaming the Lord Jesus that He was a sinner, the man replied them that he didn't care. The only thing he cared about was that he was blind before but now could see. The man was not even interested in knowing whether Jesus was of God or not, he just wanted to get his sight. Jesus didn't just want the man to have result, He wanted him to have it God's way. After he had received his sight Jesus found him, and said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?'' He answered and said, 'Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?' And Jesus said unto him, ''Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.'' And he said, Lord, 'I believe. And he worshipped him: John 9:35-38.
Both Jesus and the blind man had good results. Jesus went further to secure the blind man’s result by ensuring that the man had eternal life added to his testimony. That is what makes for good results in life.

Prayer/Action
* Father, put an end to every fruitless labour in my life, in Jesus’ mighty name.
* Ask the Lord to give you results that will silence all your critics.
* Ask God for the power to get results within His principles.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command every devouring power to jump out of my life now, in Jesus mighty name.

The Treasure in Your House

Tuesday 26 April
READ: Matt. 13:44-46
MORE LESSON: Psa. 1:2-3

There is the story of a man that owned a small farm on an acre of land well watered by streams. He lived on the farm and made profit which sustained him. Those days, the exploration of land for diamond just started becoming popular and many people were becoming instantaneously rich as they discovered diamond in their land. This man also wanted to make it and so he sold his little farm and took the little money he made from the sale to embark on a journey in search for diamond. He travelled to distant lands and shores in search of diamond to make him wealthy. After many years of a worn out life, travelling and looking for diamond throughout the world, he decided to return home. He had become old and since he hadn't been lucky enough to find diamond and become rich, he decided to return to his hometown so that, at least, when he died he could be buried there. When he returned home the first thing he noticed was that the whole village had become an industrial town and many things had changed. There were roads, schools, hospitals, storey buildings and other infrastructural amenities. He inquired and found out that a large deposit of diamond was discovered in the town after he left. A large industry had to be set up that was responsible for the great economic and infrastructural development. Of course, you can guess where the deposit of diamond was discovered. It was in the acre of land he sold to travel in search of diamond! Many people are searching around for treasure and solutions in life while the greatest treasure in the universe lies unused in their house.
The greatest treasure in life is the Word of God. A man has the Bible in his house and is not reading it to discover principles of life but goes around begging for help, prayer and other things. He is uninformed that if he could only extract the treasure in his Bible, all the things he goes around begging for will be produced and distributed by him. Psa. 1: 2-3 declares that a man who digs and discovers the treasure in the Word of God will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. Productivity, provision and prosperity are in the Word of God. Your Bible is a treasure. If you read, love and obey it, all the things that people traverse land and sea to look for will naturally flow out of you. Friend, all you are looking for are in the Word of God. Explore God’s Word and become blessed and a blessing to others

Prayer/Action
* Father, open my eyes to the treasure within me, in Jesus’ name.
* Go for knowledge and be informed so that you can discover the immeasurable treasure deposit in you.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command every yoke of slavery to be broken off me today, in the name of Jesus.

Trusting in His Promises

Monday 25 April
READ: 2 Cor. 1:20
MORE LESSON: Prov. 3:5-7

Trusting in the Lord is accepting the provision of His promise when the situations around show an apparent threat to the promise. It is seeing that things are not the way they are supposed to be, but still choosing to stand on what the Lord has said. Trusting is believing the promise above circumstantial evidence. Trust is blind to situations, it only sees the invisible promises. This is why it is God that deserves our trust because it is only He that can fit into the context of real trust. If men promise something and the circumstances are proving so difficult for them to get it done, they can easily change based on the prevalent circumstances and their limited capabilities. But when God makes a promise and the circumstances are not co-operating, He overrules the circumstances. Whatever God will not be allowed to rule, He over-rules. If it is the Lord who has made the promise and the circumstances are not aligning with the fulfilment of the promise, He forces them to. This is what the Bible means when it says there is no variableness with Him. Instead of a situation to cause God to vary, He varies the situation, with Whom [God] is no variableness, neither shadow of turning: James 1:17.
For a man to be able to trust God he must do the following things:
1. Find the promises of God: You must find what the Word of God says about your situation. After you have found it, hold onto it and never let it go. Heaven and earth will pass away, but that spoken word or that written Word of God will never go unfulfilled. Your situation that is contrary to the Word of God must bow. God must be true, let the whole world remain a lie.
2. Learn to pray over the promises you have found: Several people read the Scripture to find what God has said but they don't take it back to God in prayer. When God speaks to you by His Word you speak back to Him by your prayer.
3. Learn to confess what God has said: We should not keep God's promises under our pillow; tell men what God has said so that they will know what God has said. This will help a man to keep his confidence in God and when God sees you confessing His Word, praying His Word and believing His Word, He will surely perform His Word.
Beloved, trusting in the promises of the Lord has never failed any man. Over your situation, find God's promises and put your trust in Him. Call upon Him in prayer and give Him thanks believing He has heard you. I assure you that you are next in line for a testimony.

Prayer/Action
* Father, open my eyes to the promises You have given to me, in the mighty name of Jesus.
* Ask God to put a seal to every word you declare.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Everything done against me with evil padlocks, be nullified by the blood of Jesus today, in the mighty name of Jesus