25TH NOVEMBER 2024 SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY THE SENIOR PASTOR OF DUNAMIS, DR PAUL ENENCHE

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

Monday 25TH NOVEMBER 2024.

Our TOPIC: PASSION FOR GOD AND HIS WORD.

Today's SCRIPTURE: Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceed from the mouth of the Lord. Matthew chapter 4 verse 4. Hallelujah!

Our THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: When a person has functional spirituality, they desire the Presence of God more than the presence of men.

In one of our previous studies, we saw spiritual hunger as a major proof of authentic and functional spirituality.
One who is spiritually buoyant has a healthy spiritual appetite.
So, your spiritual life is measured by the degree of your hunger for spiritual things.
In our study today, we shall be looking at more facts or proofs of authentic spirituality.
#1. Passion for God’s Presence
A major indicator of healthy, functional and authentic spirituality is passion for the Presence of God.
David, in Psalm chapter 27 verse 4, says,
One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
The passion of David was to settle or camp with God.
When a person has functional spirituality, they desire the Presence of God more than the presence of men.
As a matter of fact, when people desire the presence of men more than the presence of God, something is wrong with them, spiritually speaking.
#2. Appetite for the Word of God.
Job chapter 23 verse 12 says,
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
This is a healthy spirit.
Beloved, I would like to ask you a question: when you wake up in the morning, do you crave for food first or to hear God first? Do you crave to check your phone first or you crave to check the Word of God first?
My counsel is, crave for the Presence of God; crave also for His Word above all things.
Remember this: When a person has functional spirituality, they desire the Presence of God more than the presence of men.

Take this ASSIGNMENT with you:
#1. Make up your mind to spend time with God to reignite your spiritual fire and fervency.
#2. Discipline yourself to study the Word of God on a consistent basis. Yes sir!

Our PRAYER today: Lord, I receive the grace to camp in Your Presence. Help me to be diligent in studying Your Word and following Your precepts, Lord, in Jesus Name. Amen!

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: Functional Spirituality.

QUOTE: Only one Word, one revelation, one inspiration, one direction; only one thing God will tell you will change your story. Culled from the book, “21 Foolish Things People Do” by Dr Paul Enenche.

Today's Bible DAILY READING: from the book of 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 to 3.

We start with 2nd Corinthians chapter 1, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation. For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many. For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you. For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end (as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus. And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit— to pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea. Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No? For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth. Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand. Hallelujah!

2nd Corinthians chapter 2, But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow. For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me? And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you. But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent—not to be too severe. This punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man, so that, on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him. Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia. Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ. Hallelujah!

2nd Corinthians chapter 3, Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. Hallelujah!

AMAZING FACT: Lionesses will often take over a pride when no dominant male is present.

Today's PROPHETIC WORD (and DECLARATION): Receive fresh passion for the Presence of God, in Jesus Name. Amen!

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