Monday, 29th January 2024
By Pst Israel Olorunfemi
TEXT: “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5)
I welcome you to a fresh week of the manifestation of answers to prayers. By the mercies of God, there shall be harvest of answers to prayers prayed during the 21 days fast and your own shall not be denied, in Jesus name.
We shall yet put on hold our weekly Hour of Mercy today. The reason is because there are things concerning vision that we must still examine before the end of this month. As the Lord lives, non of us will miss our steps this year, in Jesus name.
Vision is a key to a successful life. Life without vision will be full of frustration. Suicide in our society today is rooted in lack of vision. A man/woman who sees tomorrow will not kill himself/herself today. Let me make something clear to you this morning – a lot of people have mistaken an ambition to be a vision from God. Today, I want to show you by the Spirit of God what vision is and what ambition is so you will know whether what you carry in your spirit is a vision worth pursuing or ambition to lay aside. This is so important because God will only supply provision for the vision that originates from Him.
Now, there is a clear difference between vision and ambition. The truth is that a lot of people today are not visionaries, they are ambitious. What is vision? Vision is a revelation of a God’s plan as related to you. Ambition on the other hand, is your strong desire to want to achieve something, probably because you admire someone who achieved that. Ambition can be totally different from the original purpose of God for your life. So, vision is from God while ambition is a self-made plan.
Ambition is liable to failure and if care is not taken, it can even destroy the ambitious person. Absalom, the son of David was ambitious of becoming a king contrary to the original plan of God for him. Instead of going to God to receive God’s plan, he devised his own plan against his father David and he ended his life shamefully. It is ambition that moves you to want to achieve things by all means and not by God’s means.
Hey! God is capable of handling His vision for you. Whatever you want to achieve in an unholy manner and at all cost is a proof that you are by ambition. Be very sure that what you are pursuing this year is the vision of God for you and not your self-made plan.
PRAYER: I pray for you today, you shall not be misled this year, in Jesus name.
DAILY CONFESSION:
This year 2024, I am advancing in adversity because I’ve been redeemed to flourish in hard times therefore my life shall be full of wonders. Amen and amen.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Jan 29 (Matt 19; Exo 20-22)
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