Dr Pastor Paul Enenche at first service, Glory Dome, Abuja on ‘The Blessing Of Dedication to God’.
Galatians 3:9
*It is confirmed through scriptures that dedicated people are blessed and favoured people
*Commitment to God is a guarantee of fulfillment in life
When you look at the life of Abraham in Scriptures, the Bible made it clear that Abraham was dedicated to God and as a result of the dedication to God, he could not escape God’s
blessings.
FEATURES OF ABRAHAM’S DEDICATION TO GOD
1) HE demonstrated unconditional obedience to God (Genesis 12:1 -5)
- He obeyed God without questions
- He obeyed GOD without doubting
- He took God at His word
- He was able to trust God with his life
- He was able to trust God with his future
- He was sure that God would not mismanage his life and his destiny
We live in a generation today where too many people question the faithfulness of God, they over-analyse divine instructions.
2) HE permitted nothing and nobody to come between him and God
- He allowed nothing to capture his focus outside of God
- He allowed nothing to take over his attention outside of God
We live in a world today, where many things struggle for our attention, we live in a world today where many things take people’s eyes off God.
- Whatever takes your attention off God is not worth it
- Whatever takes your attention off God is not in the interest of your welfare both in this life and in the life to come
- Any marriage that you are going to enter into that takes your eyes off God is a marriage of disaster
- Any job that you are going to do that will slow down your relationship with God and make you compromise is a job of disaster
When I was in medical school, there was a place I could not go to read in the night because it was going to interfere with my quiet time; it was going to interfere with my time of prayer. ChurchGist. I didn’t know how to organise my time and I like to pray in tongues extensively, I like to worship, pray and study the Bible early in the morning. That kind of atmosphere couldn’t allow me, so for six years of medical training, I was not able to go the way others went, yet I was not stranded, yet I was able to scale at the top and not having to resit one exam because you cannot put GOD
first and come last in life.
3) HE had nothing that was too big to give – if God needed it (1 Chronicles 29:13-14)
- He exhibited extreme generosity towards GOD
When you see a dedicated man he holds nothing back from God - He laid no claim on any earthly property
As far as Abraham was concerned nothing he had was his own - There was nothing available with him that was not accessible by God
- God owned him and everything that came out of him
During the construction of this building, we flattened two accounts – accounts with many, many zeros!
One of those accounts that we were going to flatten, the bank people came to us and said “please give us to the end of the month before you withdraw this thing, let it enter this month’s report at least. ChurchGist. That was not church money, that was money that God sent by the mystery of the Covenant.
God owns you and God owns everything you own – that is dedication
4) He commanded his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord (Genesis 18:17-19)
- Dedicated people are concerned about the eternal welfare of the people in their world
People who are dedicated are concerned about the eternal welfare of their driver, colleague at work, cook, classmates etc. - Dedicated people do not keep their experiences with God to themselves, whatever GOD is doing with them, they want others to experience it.
- Dedicated people share the goodness of God in their lives with others
- When a man is dedicated to God, the experience is so real that he cannot keep it to himself
*Dedicated people are not ashamed to let others know the reality of God in their lives
- Dedicated people give public expressions to their personal and private experiences with God (1John 1:1)
When was the last time you let somebody in your office know that there is a GOD?
When was the last time you preached to your driver or you cook?
When was the last time invited people to church?
5) Abraham expressed total dependence on God through addicted praying (Genesis 19:21)
- Dedicated people are people of altars
- Dedicated people are people of consistent prayer
- Dedicated people are people who stand in the gap for others
- Prayerfulness is a confession of helplessness without God
- Prayerlessness is a declaration of independence from God, it is a declaration of self-sufficiency
Dedicated people are absolutely self-insufficient and totally God-dependent
WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME OF ABRAHAM’S DEDICATION?
1) THE arrest of the spell of stagnation and failure
I don’t care what the enemy has tried to do to make your life remain on the same spot today that spell shall be broken in the name of Jesus!
2) THE termination of the yoke of fruitlessness
3) THE impartation of generational blessings
- If you are dedicated to God you can never escape generational blessing
4) THE impartation of generational greatness
- If you are truly dedicated to God you can’t have useless children
- If you are here today and the devil is trying to challenge the fruit of your womb and to challenge your children despite your dedication to God I declare that attack of the devil is broken forever!
PRAYER POINTS:
- Father, help me to obey you unconditionally in the name of Jesus
- Father, let nothing and nobody come in between me and you in the name of Jesus
- Father, help me to live in such a realm where nothing is too big to offer to you in the name of Jesus
- Father, help me to be interested in the welfare of people around me in the name of Jesus
- Father, help me to be totally dependent on you in the name of Jesus
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