Today I woke up thirsty! Thirsty for MORE!
Psalm 119:1-6 says, “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. 3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.” Today let’s draw our focus to verse 2. “Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.” I’m going to be honest with myself. I don’t always remember my testimonies. I have seen and experienced such marvelous things from God, but it’s very easy to forget what we ourselves have witnessed. I forget the time I had a bill due and no money to pay it and God places it on someone’s heart to bless me just at that time. I forget the time He let me hear what the ravens were saying to each other so that I would have direction. I forget how God healed me after 14 years on a walker when He told me, “Dance, and I’ll heal you.” How I danced for those 14 years believing in His promise and He healed me. But then I’ll see the ravens flying to roost or I’ll feel a pain in my back. Then I remember. Then I rejoice once again and I begin to seek Him with a renewed spirit and a renewed heart! Hallelujah!! Just as a testimony, helps others to get through their trials and tribulations, it helps us to thirst after the Lord even more. I pray today that today be your day of testimonies. That God brings back to your mind testimony after testimony today! I pray you begin to thirst after Him like you’ve never thirsted before. Let today be the day that you experienced the fullness of Christ and let you never be the same. Amen. Be blessed! Evangelist Cheryl Owolabi (www.fearnotministries.com) #mytestimonygivesmelife #FearNotMinistries #feelthefire #sharingiscaring #FearNotMinistries
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Let me set the atmosphere this morning. It was the day of Pentecost. There was suddenly a sound from heaven like a violent wind that was heard by everyone. It filled the house, and it filled the streets. Those in the house receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Those in the street were in wonder and fear. They questioned what was happening and what they should do? And so Peter answered them in truth,
37“Now when the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Gentlemen, brothers, what should we do?” 38 Peter answered them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.” 40 He testified solemnly with many other words and was appealing to them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added. The Christians Lived in Unity 42 They continued to hold firmly to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of the bread, and to the prayers. 43 Awe came over every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They were selling their possessions and property and were distributing the proceeds according to what anyone needed. 46 Day after day, with one mind, they were devoted to meeting in the temple area, as they continued to break bread in their homes. They shared their food with glad and sincere hearts, 47 as they continued praising God and being viewed favorably by all the people. Day after day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.” Acts 2:37-47 Over 3000 lives were changed that day. Both Jews and Gentiles. It took a sound from God for them to finally see the truth. The same people that crucified Jesus were now caused to repent and see that He was truly the Son of God. And God forgave them. Repentance gave them peace and they were able to live in peace and unity from that day on. My prayer today is that we have a repentant heart, and that we begin to live in peace and unity with each other. Helping each other and lifting each other up. That we truly believe in our heart that we are one family and one body of Christ. That we don’t wait for a sound, but we are already assured that Jesus is Lord and He came to free us from an everlasting death. Hallelujah!! Please take time to read Acts 2 in its entirety today and be encouraged by Holy Spirit. Be blessed! Evangelist Cheryl Davies Owolabi (www.fear it ministries.com) #feelthefire #FearNotMinistries #sharingiscaring #spiritled There is a lesson to be learned in Genesis 45:4-8,
“And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” So Joseph’s brothers sold him as a slave when he was younger out of jealousy. But even as they were doing evil towards their brother, they did not know that God still had a plan. And that they were part of that plan. Did David have animosity towards his brothers for all that he endured? Not at all. For he understood the plan. He went from slave to ruler. And because of his position he was able to save his family. He understood that it was God who sent him into captivity and not his brothers. This is why it is so important to look at the spirit of people and not their actions. What we might perceive as the influence of the enemy might in fact be the works of God. This also tells us not to look at the situation, but to look towards the outcome of the situation. So don’t be stuck in what’s happening to you today. This is but a moment in your life, and God has a plan for this moment to pass and greater things to come. Be blessed! Evangelist Cheryl Davies Owolabi (www.fearnotministries.com) #SeeThePlan #FearNotMinistries #sharingiscaring #movingforward #SpiritLed |
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