Applying your Heart to Wisdom 2

Friday 29 April
READ: Eph 5: 15 - 16
MORE LESSON: Psa 90: 12

Psa. 90:12 talks about the need to number our days if we must apply our hearts to wisdom and we have pointed out that numbering our days involves making sure we spend each day maximally to the glory of God and the fulfilment of our purpose in destiny. The Bible also links being wise to redeeming the time in our days. Eph 5: 15 -16 says, See that thou walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. There are many forces that contend with your day. There are evil forces outside that have planned negative things for the day and there are also forces from within that are drawing you to do things that would not profit your day. There are things in the day that are beyond the visible eyes wanting men to do things that at the end of life he will regret all. This is the reason why you need to apply the force of God in prayer and meditation to help you to carefully organise and plan each day of your life. You also need to receive strength in the secret place to go forth each day and achieve all that is set for the day. It is the consciousness in a man that there are forces to contend with each day that makes him prayerful.
A vital key to be able to have a day full of life and profit is to be mindful from the beginning of the day how we spend it. You should labour in prayer, not just for the day but for days ahead. You need to receive grace for wisdom in making decisions each day and knowing the activities to get into and those to avoid. Redeem your day and maximise it. Never rush out any day to go and beat the wind. Receive wisdom and power from God to make the day productive, fruitful, and result-filled and then step out to prevail over the day. When you live in the wisdom of redeeming the day, at the end of life when you put days together, you will be happy. The only way to prevail over the forces of the day is by the power of God. The Word of God, the name of Jesus, the blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit are all fortifications that make you go forth in victory each day. Do not go into the day without these.
Receive fruitful days, months and years, in the name of Jesus.

Prayer/Action
* Bind every force contending with your life’s activities.
* Receive the grace to be fruitful in every activity you do today.
* Cover yourself with God’s favour to profit today.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, let my flesh and blood become poison to all blood suckers and flesh eaters, in Jesus’ name.

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

Trusting in the Lord 2

Sunday 24 April
READ: Prov. 3:5-7
MORE LESSON: Jer. 17:5-8

One of the best things a man can do to his destiny is to trust in the Lord. Trust in man will not help you because man can change, his position can be taken away or he can even die altogether. This is why a person who puts his trust in man is destined for heartbreaks and woes. If a man makes a promise to you, the day his life ends, the promise ends. There is however an endless God who is worthy of your trust. When the Almighty makes a promise, He personally supervises it to ensure that it comes to pass. God cannot afford to fail because He cannot be found a liar. God is too big to fail over that promise He has made to you. So you can rest assured in Him.
It is important for a man that confesses to be trusting in the Lord to know that he should not trust in any other thing except the Lord. Prov 3:5 says, Trust in the LORD with all thine heart.... All your heart means all your heart. You cannot trust God with a part of your heart while the other part is trusting in another man or something somewhere. Trust in the Lord must be total. You do not claim to be trusting the Lord and still go around lobbying, begging, bribing and seeking connections. This is why that scripture continues, ...and lean not unto thine own understanding: Prov 3:5. Let your confidence not rest in what you can think or do to generate solution to your situation but let it be in the inspiration and the direction which the Lord can give to you.
At this point it is important to note that God will use men for you without you having to do something but you must always see them as mere tools which God wants to use to do what He wants. He can dispose of the tools and methods if He desires, so your assurance and hope should not be in the people or what you want to do, it should always be in God. Surely God can use men as tools to help you, but when you begin to trust in the tool and not the Owner, then there is danger of failure.
This is why the last part of that scripture says, In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths: Prov 3:6. Acknowledge God as the One doing it. Not just in words but in heart and in truth. Know that it is God not that rich man or that politician that is the one to help you. Even if God uses a man, make sure you see God in the picture and not the man.
So trust Him, acknowledge Him and commit your ways to Him. Success awaits you, in Jesus’ name.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, I know that Your promises concerning me will never fail, so I praise You.
* Father, even if You use men to help me, I still trust You as my helper.
* Declare your unflinching trust in the Lord.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I overthrow all king uzziahs that are making it impossible for me to see the glory of God and I declare them dead now, in the mighty name of Jesus.

Trusting in the Lord 1

Saturday 23 April
READ: Prov. 3:5-7
MORE LESSON: Heb. 11:6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil: Prov. 3:5-7. If there is ever a time that we need to put our trust in the Lord, it is now. The world has become more competitive and survival and sustenance is becoming more and more demanding. We need God now more than ever. To trust is to have confidence in the promise that is made, especially when fulfilment of the promise seems to be delayed.
Psa 125: 1 says, They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. Trusting in God is very rewarding. With trust in the Lord, a man is able to keep hope alive, sustain confidence and do the impossible. God is moved and excited when you display trust in Him. As it is written in Heb 11:6, And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. If faith honours God, trust brings down help from God. Trust is an advanced form of faith; it is continuing to believe even when you do not understand, knowing fully well that God knows what He is doing with your life and He will make everything work for your good. When a man trusts God, he is able to close his eyes to situations that seem contrary to the promises of God in his life. Despite apparent contradictions, he stands fast and puts his confidence in the Lord.
Trust in God gives Him the assurance that we are truly His and makes Him stand up on our behalf. Know that it doesn't matter whatever you are going through, there is a promise of God in the Scripture that you can hold on to and it is worthy of being believed and trusted. There are several promises of God concerning your situation; look for them, believe them and accept them. Know also that those that trust in the Lord shall not be put to shame no matter how long they wait. Keep your trust alive and your hope will bring forth the fruit. God bless you and have a rewarding day.

Prayer/Action
* Repent of every act that prove you do not trust God enough.
* Ask God for the grace to trust Him completely.
* Confess any two verses that affirm your trust in the Lord.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I command the potency of negative words and prophecies spoken over my life to die, in the name of Jesus