- Receive grace to apply your HEART AND TIME to GOD.
- If you say, ‘Lord you have my heart.’ Then God is asking, ‘where is the time?’
*God will take you to strange heights that cannot be reconciled with where you are coming from!
Shall we lift our hands this morning and let’s give glory to God, the one who is the doer of those marvellous acts. They’re His doings and that’s why they’re marvellous in our eyes. Will you give Him the glory, give Him the thanks. Appreciate Him from the depth of your heart.
This is God at work. Lift up your hands, lift up your voice and give God the glory this morning. Appreciate Him and celebrate Him from the depth of your heart. Lord we celebrate You. Father we thank You.
Thank Him for the answers He has given to your prayers, your intercessions, your supplications, being fully assured that He has heard you.
Now ask Him to speak to you this morning.
Luke 21:28
Lord we have come to hear your voice again today, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father this morning, we have come with gratitude in our hearts to give glory to You for all that You have done. Thank You for hearing our prayers and for granting us Answers. Thank You for Your marvellous acts in our midst.
This morning our eyes are upon You asking that You will speak to us again. By Your Word let everyone be changed and transformed. We give You the praise and glory for it, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our line of exhortation for this week has been
WE CANNOT HAVE A HEART FOR GOD AND NOT HAVE TIME FOR HIM
We have established from God’s Word that the principal desire of God is to have our hearts.
Proverbs 23:26
God’s principal demand from every man is his heart. He is interested in your heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
According to Scriptures wherever the heart is, is where the treasure will go.
Matthew 6:21
What we apply our hearts to, we apply our treasures to and our ultimate treasure in life is time that means wherever our heart is, our time will go.
That is why you discover that no man spends time to struggle in what he loves. Whatever you love you will invest time with love in it. Church Gist. It means therefore that if we’re going to claim to be lovers of God then we’ll be investors of our time in God.
1st Samuel 13:14
If you’re always going to claim that your heart is in God’s direction then your time will be in God’s direction. Investing time in God is never a struggle for a man whose heart is after God. What God is interested in first is your heart and not necessarily your act. It is possible to put your act in a particular direction that your heart is not in.
2nd Chronicles 25:2
You and I must ensure that our hearts are completely invested in the pursuit of God and then our time will be effortlessly directed in the pursuit of God.
We’re going to look this morning at an example of a man named Nehemiah.
Nehemiah 1:1-11
All of these actions was not because God has added several new hours to Nehemiah, no. It was because his heart was after God so his time went after God.
You see we all have 24 hours in each day. There is no day that there is an increase. The allocation of your time is determined by the location of your heart. If your heart is directed towards God, your time will naturally be allocated to God. God has brought us into this midst of the year for our hearts to be kindled afresh. That our fires and our passions will be rekindled in the pursuit of his Kingdom.
- I pray that this morning that will become our experience in the name of Jesus Christ.
Nehemiah 2:1-8
He was a man on fire for God because his heart was in pursuit after God. His time was not a struggle.
You’re struggling to find time to pray, you’re struggling to find time to win souls. The problem is not the time, the problem is the heart. Whatever you love, your time will be allocated towards it.
- I see grace coming upon you afresh in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s important to note that we need a heart for God to make the most of our journey on the earth. For anyone that will maximize his journey on the earth, you need a heart for God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
If a man will maximize his destiny, it will be about his heart being allocated towards God. That’s the secret, that’s the key. Making the most of your destiny in the earth is not a product of any other thing but a heart for God. When your heart is in pursuit of God I tell you, your destiny is settled on the earth.
Psalm 112:2
Everytime you see a season of revival like this and men begin to plug in with their hearts, the outcome of it is the rise of giants.
- I see giants rising among us in the name of Jesus Christ.
In conclusion, one cannot have time for God without making strange marks on the earth.
Nehemiah 5:14
He was appointed a governor by reason of his commitment. What was his qualification? Absolutely nothing. The only thing Nehemiah was to do in the palace of the king was to be a cup bearer. He was a man of zero experience. Can you imagine they said, “write CV, what is your experience?” And he says I was a cup bearer of the king.
Nehemiah 1:11
He had nothing that will place him in a position of relevance but by pursuing after God he became the governor of Judah.
- I see somebody attaining heights that no one will see attainable.
1st Corinthians 2:9
Lovers of God are men that makes strange marks on the earth. To have a mark that is strange is to have a mark that has not been seen before and that is what becomes of men whose hearts and time is after God.
- I see that becoming your own experience in the name of Jesus Christ.
When people see where God takes you to, they will not be able to reconcile it with where you’re coming from because God will take you to strange heights.
1st Corinthians 2:9
What is the demand of God? My son, my daughter give me your heart. You say Lord you have my heart. Then He is asking where is the time?
Lift your voice and say Lord, I receive grace this morning to keep applying my heart to You, to keep applying my time to You. To keep applying myself in the pursuit of You. I receive grace. Pray from the depth of your heart. I receive grace today. I receive grace today to apply my heart, to apply myself.
I receive grace today to commit myself and commit my time in the pursuit of Your agenda in the name of Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
That grace shall be your portion in the name of Jesus Christ. It is done.
PastorDavidOyedepoJnr
CHoP9Jun21
ChurchGist
