You Must Be Bold!

You Must Be Bold!

From the previous devotional we saw that the empowerment of the Holy Spirit is a vital requirement for fulfillment in life. Jesus said to His disciples, “You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8). And when the Holy Ghost comes, one of the things He does is to infuse you with boldness; He imparts you with the strength of heart you require to take steps in the face of oppositions that attempt to stop you from entering your Promised land.

Winning in life begins from the heart. Many people are highly educated, they have great visions, very strange prophecies and wonderful proposals but because of intimidation they are stagnated. Men fail and fall in their hearts before they actually fall on the earth. Every physical, open failure you see today began from the hearts of men saying, “Can I do it? Can I make it?” Little ‘girls’ are confronting them like Peter and they are taking shield when their chests should be out, confronting and clearing the oppositions out of their way.

The same Peter who denied his master in the face of a little maid, after he was empowered by the Holy Spirit stood before a great crowd and preached a fiery message that caused their heart to be pricked and thousands repented and were saved that day (Luke 22:55-62, Acts 2:1-38). So, when we talk about the empowerment of the Holy Spirit we are talking about being bold, fearless, not minding the risks attached to what you want to do in life.

It is the strength of your heart that defines the extent of your possession on earth. The earth is for strong hearted people. It takes a lion’s heart to take a lion’s share. Before David confronted Goliath he said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him…” (1 Sam. 17:32). You need that! You need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to embolden you to move forward in the face of obvious and imminent danger. The Holy Spirit gets you drunken till you begin to take dangerous steps like a drunkard.

You need to be fearless in the pursuits of life, but that cannot be developed by natural efforts, it takes the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. I perceive that you are due for promotion, something inside you is eager to move forward but you can’t tell why you are on the same spot. As you open up for the empowerment of the Holy Ghost, I see you break loose from those intimidations! I see you doing the impossible from henceforth by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit!

Your access to that empowerment is a hot desire. Let there be a yearning, a longing in your soul and God shall fill you afresh with His Spirit (Psalm 63:1-2).

Meditate on these: Zechariah 10:1, Isaiah 44:3

Post from Bishop David O Abioye's Daily Devotion
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PURPOSE

THE NATURE OF PURPOSE

The word "nature" gets to do with inherent character, basic qualities, and type/kind, attributes that describe the totality of a thing, person or a group of people.Nature also deals with the descriptive identity of a thing or person. Hence, we could afford to describe or identify a people based on their nature.Just as everything has a nature - basic quality, descriptive identity, character, so purpose has its nature. It is the nature of purpose that defines its kind and source.

Purpose in its simplicity, is the original intent, essence of a thing. It is the original function or reason for making a thing. Relatively, man was both created and made by his Creator God. God had a purpose for creating everyone of the over 6 billions of us on planet earth. None was created/made by chance or without a thought out purpose.

Proposing the creation of man, God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea; and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth...So God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them" (Genesis 1: 26 - 27)

Reemphasizing that He has a purpose for creating each one of us, He spoke to Jeremiah saying, "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)

So, you see, no one is left out of purpose. You and I are a creature of purpose. No purpose, no creation. Now, the purpose of a thing is not determined or defined by any other person but the manufacturer of that thing. It is exclusive duty of the manufacturer.God had purpose in mind for creating us and equally designed us to fit that purpose. And it is His exclusive duty to define our purpose. No one can do it because everyone is in search of his/her purpose.Now to know the nature of our purpose, we must first of all know the nature of our Creator. The Bible gave a descriptive identity of God as Holy (See Leviticus 19: 2)

If God is holy, then whatsoever He does or gives is holy in nature - in basic quality, character, etc. Purpose is holy in nature because it is from the Holy God. This means, your purpose is holy in all its attributes and it is meant to reflect the holiness of God.Purpose is holy in nature and it is pursued on a holy stands. ....more in next articles

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