21ST SEPTEMBER 2024 SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY THE SENIOR PASTOR, DR PAUL ENENCHE

SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY THE SENIOR PASTOR OF DUNAMIS INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL CENTRE, DR PAUL ENENCHE.

SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2024.

Today's TOPIC: THE BLESSINGS OF WAITING ON GOD.

SCRIPTURE: Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 3 verse 9 to 10. Hallelujah!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Vision clarification happens when you wait on the Lord.

It has been confirmed that waiting on God has many benefits and blessings. To wait on God is to be blessed; to wait on God comes with great blessings.

Today, we shall be looking at two blessings of waiting on God in our study.

#1. Waiting on the Lord is key to vision clarification.

The vision of life, career, ministry and destiny is clarified when you wait on the Lord.

Direction, which is a product of waiting on God, tells you the steps to take. Vision tells you what God wants you to do.

Vision clarification happens when you wait on the Lord.

Moses knew that he was to deliver Israel from Egypt, but for forty years, that vision was lost in his life. Then one day, he went to the backside of the desert, that is, on the mountain of the Lord, and his vision was recovered (Exodus 3 verse 1 to 12). He had an encounter with God that brought back his vision. His vision was clarified when he waited on the Lord.

You can clarify your vision for life when you wait on the Lord and ask, “Lord, am I fulfilling the right vision? Am I pursuing the right course? Am I doing the thing you want me to do with my life?”

Camping with the Lord or waiting on the Lord is key to vision clarification.

#2. Waiting on the Lord is key to restoration. Whatever you lost in life can be regained when you wait on the Lord.

Moses lost his vision, purpose, and in fact, he almost got lost in the wilderness for 40 years. But when he came to hang around God, he found himself. (Exodus 3 verse 1 to 10). Hallelujah!

Beloved, I don't know if you have lost yourself or the real person you are meant to be, you can rediscover yourself when you wait on God.

You can rediscover yourself when you ask God, “Who am I? Where am I?”

Remember this: Vision clarification happens when you wait on the Lord.

Take this ASSIGNMENT with you:

#1. Make up your mind to wait on God for the clarification of your life’s vision.

#2. Pursue your vision for living unto fulfilment. Yes sir!

Our PRAYER today: Lord, I ask that You open my eyes to have the clarity of Your purpose for my life. I receive the grace to pursue the vision unto fulfilment, Lord, in Jesus’ Name, in Jesus Name. Amen!

FOR Further UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE VALUE OF CAMPING WITH GOD.

QUOTE: If you find yourself in the midst of people and all of a sudden, you feel like moving aside to pray, move!

Culled from the book, “15 Kingdom Strategies For Survival” by Dr Paul Enenche.

Today's DAILY READING: from the book of Amos chapter 5 to 7.

We start with Amos chapter 5, Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel: The virgin of Israel has fallen;She will rise no more.She lies forsaken on her land;There is no one to raise her up. For thus says the Lord God:“The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left,And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel.” For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:“Seek Me and live; But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing. Seek the Lord and live,Lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph,And devour it,With no one to quench it in Bethel, You who turn justice to wormwood,And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!” He made the Pleiades and Orion;He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night;He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth;The Lord is His name. He rains ruin upon the strong,So that fury comes upon the fortress. They hate the one who rebukes in the gate,And they abhor the one who speaks uprightly. Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him,Though you have built houses of hewn stone,Yet you shall not dwell in them;You have planted pleasant vineyards,But you shall not drink wine from them. For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins:Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate. Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time,For it is an evil time. Seek good and not evil,That you may live;So the Lord God of hosts will be with you,As you have spoken. Hate evil, love good; Establish justice in the gate.It may be that the Lord God of hosts Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:“There shall be wailing in all streets,And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing. In all vineyards there shall be wailing,For I will pass through you,”Says the Lord. Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord!For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion,And a bear met him!Or as though he went into the house,Leaned his hand on the wall,And a serpent bit him! Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light?Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? “I hate, I despise your feast days,And I do not savor your sacred assemblies. Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,I will not accept them,Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings. Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. But let justice run down like water,And righteousness like a mighty stream. “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols,The star of your gods,Which you made for yourselves. Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,”Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. Hallelujah!

Amos chapter 6, Woe to you who are at ease in Zion,And trust in Mount Samaria, Notable persons in the chief nation, To whom the house of Israel comes! Go over to Calneh and see;And from there go to Hamath the great;Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory? Woe to you who put far off the day of doom,Who cause the seat of violence to come near; Who lie on beds of ivory,Stretch out on your couches,Eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall; Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David; Who drink wine from bowls,And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives,And those who recline at banquets shall be removed. The Lord God has sworn by Himself,The Lord God of hosts says:“I abhor the pride of Jacob,And hate his palaces;Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it.” Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”Then someone will say, “None.”And he will say, “Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.” For behold, the Lord gives a command:He will break the great house into bits,And the little house into pieces. Do horses run on rocks?Does one plow there with oxen?Yet you have turned justice into gall,And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, You who rejoice over Lo Debar,Who say, “Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves By our own strength?” “But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel,”Says the Lord God of hosts;“And they will afflict you from the entrance of HamathTo the Valley of the Arabah.” hallelujah!

Amos chapter 7, Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!” So the Lord relented concerning this.“It shall not be,” said the Lord. Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory. Then I said:“O Lord God, cease, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!” So the Lord relented concerning this.“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God. Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”And I said, “A plumb line.”Then the Lord said:“Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel;I will not pass by them anymore. The high places of Isaac shall be desolate,And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.” Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos has said:‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land.’ ” Then Amaziah said to Amos:“Go, you seer!Flee to the land of Judah.There eat bread,And there prophesy. But never again prophesy at Bethel,For it is the king’s sanctuary,And it is the royal residence.” Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:“I was no prophet,Nor was I a son of a prophet,But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit. Then the Lord took me as I followed the flock,And the Lord said to me,‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,And do not spout against the house of Isaac.’ “Therefore thus says the Lord:‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;Your land shall be divided by survey line;You shall die in a defiled land;And Israel shall surely be led away captiveFrom his own land.’ ” hallelujah!

AMAZING FACT: Fleas can jump 130 times their height. In human terms, that equates to a 6-foot-tall person leaping 780 feet into the air.

Today's PROPHETIC WORD (and DECLARATION):
The LORD clarify the person you are meant to be to you in this season, in Jesus Name. Amen!