Lift up your hands and celebrate the faithfulness of our God. Are you giving thanks unto God? Are you blessing His name. I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Give Him glory, give adoration unto God and celebrate Him from the depth of your heart. Make sure your voice of thanksgiving, your voice of appreciation is heard on high. Give Him the glory. Give Him the honour.
Father we thank You, we bless Your name, we celebrate You, You’re worthy of praise and you’re worthy of glory. Accept our thanksgiving.
Now ask Him to speak to You this morning. I have come today to hear from You. It’s You I’ve come to hear. Speak to me today and let your name be glorified in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father in the name of Jesus we have come to give glory unto You, we thank You for the privilege we have to be in Your presence, thank You Lord for the testimonies we have heard, they’re Your doings and they’re marvelous in our eyes. Thank You Lord for the answers You keep giving to all of our prayers and this morning we’re before You asking that You’ll speak to us again. Church Gist.By Your Word let every one of us be changed and transformed. We give You the praise and glory in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our line of exhortation we began looking at yesterday is
WE CANNOT HAVE A HEART FOR GOD AND NOT HAVE TIME FOR HIM
The anchor Scripture is Proverbs 23:26
The priority of God in all of man’s engagement is the heart.
Jeremiah 17:10
God is interested in your heart.
2nd Chronicles 16:9
God is ultimately interested in our hearts but it’s important for us to understand that when our heart is committed to God, your time should also be committed to God. It is one of the definitive pointers to where our heart is. Why is that so? According to God, where your heart is, is where your treasure will go and the greatest treasure of man is time.
Ephesians 5:15-17
According to God’s description those who are wise are the ones that redeem the time and how do they do that? They’re apply themselves to the will of God.
Now what is the will of God?
2nd Peter 3:8
So to make the most of our time we must invest our time in His will and His will is that all men should be saved. So every commitment to the advancement of the Kingdom of God in the rescue of the souls of men unto God positions you and I to experience the manifestation of His plan and purpose in our lives. We must understand that when it comes to the maximization of our time it is done by the execution of His will and the will of God is that all men be saved. Church Gist. Shout hallelujah.
That is why you discover that if truly your heart is with God, if truly your heart is for God, if truly your heart is after God, then naturally your heart will propel you to engage your time in the pursuit of God. That’s why Gid says what I need first is not your activity, what I need first is your heart. Give me your heart.
You can give me your time but first give me your heart because your heart will naturally make me your priority on your time.
- My prayer for each one of us today is that by the encounter we’re having upon this mountain, our hearts will become sold out to God.
We’ll be looking at examples of individuals who gave their hearts to God and as a result of that we saw their time consumed by God. Yesterday we looked at Abraham. This morning we’re going to look at the example of Job.
Job 1:1-3
He was a man of substance. The Bible tells us that he was the greatest of all men in the East. Now this man of substance was also a man of service.
Job1:5
He was continually serving God. God boasted and testified of him why because his heart was to God and his time was to God. He did it continually. The question is this, what are your habits? What do you do continually? Do you pray for souls continually or seasonally? Are you in pursuit of the lost continually or seasonally? A man whose heart is after God have habits that demonstrates his pursuit of God. He will always be in pursuit of what pleases God. Job did this continually. At every point in time you could find this man openly with God.
- My prayer for each one of us today is that that same grace that made Job a habitual servant of God, I pray that that grace will come afresh upon our lives.
So concerning Job, we saw a man who made a habit of the pursuit of God because His heart beat was in pursuit of God. Church Gist.The truth is this, your habits are a product of your heart beats. It is what your heart is beating after that determines what becomes your habit.
Job was a man whose heart beat was after God and as a result of that his habits was always in pursuit of God.
- My prayer is that this day onward your heart beat will be in pursuit of God.
What else do we discover? We discover that if we’re going to operate like Job, then you and I need a large heart for God in order to fulfill our glorious destiny.
Job 29:4-17
We must have a large heart for God in order to fulfill our glorious destiny. Job was a man who continuously had his heart after God and as his heart went after God, his substance also went after it. Not only towards the kingdom of God but also towards the well being of men.
Galatians 6:8
Our pursuit in this season will not only take our time but even our substance, our treasure.
You’ll have converts that will need help, you will have converts that will need assistance in coming to Church, you will have converts that will need assistance on their well being and God is saying as we have opportunity, let’s take advantage of it. Job did it and maximized his destiny.
- For you I see your destiny being maximized.
Now let’s take note of this, one cannot have time for God without making outstanding marks on the earth.
Job 1:10
Job 42:10-12
He was the greatest of all men in the East, now became twice that size by reason of his commitment to God. You cannot have a heart for God and make time for God and not have marks on the earth.
In other words your relevance, your impact is a product of your commitment to the advancement of the Kingdom of God. That’s why the Scripture makes it known to us in
Matthew 6:33
A life of blessing is always the product of commitment to the advancement of God’s Kingdom.
Daniel 12:3
Our commitment to turning many to righteousness positions us for supernatural stardom.
- For somebody here, your star will rise.
- In this prophetic season your star will rise.
- There is somebody hearing me that this first week, God will visit you.
Lift up your voice say Lord I receive grace to engage my time effectively in the pursuit of Your Kingdom. Church Gist. Lift your voice and pray that prayer from the depth of your heart. Lord grace to engage my time in the pursuit of Your will, redeeming the time because the days are evil. I receive grace.
Lift your hands right now and give thanks to God. Father thank You. Blessed be Your holy name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Another day is here which means another opportunity to exercise ourselves in the place we’ve asked God for so let’s take advantage of it. You’re on your way to work, make sure you’re raiding on you way to God. You have a break time, take advantage of it. On your way back, take advantage of it and don’t forget, we have our morning and evening prayer raids taking place here in Canaanland. Don’t let any moment be wasted.
Another day, speak to it. Make the day produce for you by declaring what must happen, speak to the day right now. Make your decree and your declarations known. Speak to it right now. Thank You Jesus. Blessed be Your name in Jesus precious name.
- This day is declared blessed.
- It’s a day if unusual visitation.
- A day of testimonies.
- No evil tidings.
- As you go out and come in enjoy God’s blessings in Jesus name amen.
So shall it be in Jesus name.
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