Seed of Destiny WRITTEN BY PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE: Sunday 18th May 2025

Seed of Destiny WRITTEN BY PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE.

Sunday 18th May 2025.

Our TOPIC: Forgiveness – An Ingredient For Answered Prayer.

Today's SCRIPTURE: And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25.

Our THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Until you let go of what is behind, you can’t lay hold of what is ahead.

Prayer is an art that can be taught. It is an art that is designed to register impact on three personalities – God, the devil, and the one who prays (Luke 9:29).

The tragedy, however, is that there are many people whose prayers affect nobody – God is untouched, the devil is unmoved, and they themselves are left unchanged. This is probably because they have not properly learnt the art of praying.

So, today, we are going to look at one of the things to do for our prayer to be answered, and that is forgiveness.
Our anchor scripture says, And when ye stand praying, forgive. That is, if you are interested in securing God’s attention in prayer, forgive. Praying with bitterness is praying in frustration.

Forgiveness is key to fruitfulness. Why is it so? Joseph, for instance, passed through terrible things – being cast into the pit, being sold into slavery in Potiphar’s house, and being unjustly imprisoned. That is, he went through the pit, slavery and prison.
But when he came out of prison and God made him the Prime Minister of Egypt, he gave birth to his first son and called him Manasseh which means, “I forget, and by extension – everything my brothers did to me.” Then he gave birth to the second child and called him Ephraim. Ephraim means ‘fruitful’. So, forgetting (the past) is before fruitfulness (in the present).

And of course, forgiveness precedes forgetting. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to forget an offence if you have not yet forgiven the offender. And where forgiveness is lacking, fruitfulness is not in view. Your spiritual life can never be fruitful, your prayer life can never be fruitful, if there are people you have kept in the prison of your heart.
Holding on to the things of the past deprives you of so many good things in both the present and the future. Until you let go of what is behind, you can’t lay hold of what is ahead.

Beloved, if you are interested in your prayer being answered, forgive.

Remember this: Until you let go of what is behind, you can’t lay hold of what is ahead.

ASSIGNMENT(S):
#1. Ask God for the grace to forgive anyone who offended you, except the devil.

#2. Refuse to live in bitterness; release anyone you are holding at heart. Yes sir!

For Further Understanding, Get This Message: Requirements for Effective Prayer Part 5.

Our PRAYER today: Lord, I receive grace to forgive those who offended me. I make demands on Your Power for all-round fruitfulness in my life, Lord, in Jesus Name. Hallelujah.

Today's DAILY BIBLE READING: from the book of Psalm chapter 28 to 30.

We start with psalm chapter 28, To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock:Do not be silent to me,Lest, if You are silent to me,I become like those who go down to the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You,When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary. Do not take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity,Who speak peace to their neighbors,But evil is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds,And according to the wickedness of their endeavors;Give them according to the work of their hands;Render to them what they deserve. Because they do not regard the works of the Lord,Nor the operation of His hands,He shall destroy them And not build them up. Blessed be the Lord,Because He has heard the voice of my supplications! The Lord is my strength and my shield;My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped;Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,And with my song I will praise Him. The Lord is their strength,And He is the saving refuge of His anointed. Save Your people,And bless Your inheritance;Shepherd them also,And bear them up forever. Hallelujah!

Psalm chapter 29, Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones,Give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters;The God of glory thunders;The Lord is over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful;The voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars,Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes them also skip like a calf,Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth,And strips the forests bare;And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!” The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood,And the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people;The Lord will bless His people with peace. Hallelujah!

Psalm chapter 30, I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,And have not let my foes rejoice over me. O Lord my God, I cried out to You,And You healed me. O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave;You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of His,And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment,His favor is for life;Weeping may endure for a night,But joy comes in the morning. Now in my prosperity I said,“I shall never be moved.” Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong;You hid Your face, and I was troubled. I cried out to You, O Lord;And to the Lord I made supplication: “What profit is there in my blood,When I go down to the pit?Will the dust praise You?Will it declare Your truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me;Lord, be my helper!” You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever. Hallelujah

QUOTE: Bitterness reduces your productivity and fruitfulness. It reduces what comes out of your life. Culled from Am I BITTER? By Dr Becky Paul-Enenche.

AMAZING FACT: The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors.

Today's PROPHETIC DECLARATION and WORD: Receive the grace to forgive today in Jesus Name. Amen hallelujah!