Special thanks and praise is ascribed unto Our God for taking us thorugh the year 2008 with all itsl challenges and blessings. The fact that we are now in 2009 testifies to the marvellow work of our God.
Reality cannot be beaten. We are no longer hoping for 2009. We are not dream of or wishing for 2009. We are NOW in it, with all that we have, planned and dreamt of. So, welcome to the reality of 2009.
I want to give you a special, profound and important requisite to live successfully this year 2009. The requisite is Divine Direction.
Divine direction is all you need to being this race, continue in this race and ultimately to finish it. Until you are directed by Divinity, you will amount to nothing. When God takes over the steering of 2009 for you, then you are sure wanting nothing and lying down in green pasture.
Psalms 23 says, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, he leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valeey of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies, thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever" (verses 1 to 6).
It takes divine direction - God's leadership over your life, for you to walk thorugh the year unhurt and sweatless. It takes directing you to make the most of the year.
Don't be deceived that this year wil not bring its challenges. As a matter of fact, this year has a lot of challenges. But when God becomes your shepherd, all the challenges and enemies of the year agianst you will be taken care of by God himself while you sail through as if nothing has happened.
You need God to direct you on every aspect of your life through out the year. Don't take 2008's directions for this year's. No, 2008 and 2009 are not the same. They did not start the same day.
BENEFITS OF DIVINE DIRECTION
1. The Presenc of God.
When God becomes your shepherd that give you direction, you enjoy His divine presence. Our text says "For thou art with me". This is divine presence. A shepherd don't lead form another place. Anywhere you see the herd, you find the shephed. When He leads, He abides with the led.
2. Divine Assurance
David said, "Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life" (in this year). 'Surely' speaks of assurance, certainty, what must and shall happen, without doubt or confusion. You see, beloved of God, I know how this year would end for me because I am under divine direction. May you come under His direction in Jesus' perfect name.
3. Divine Provision
When you walk in divine direction, you enjoy divine and inexplicable privisions. When Jesus led the multitude to the desert in His crusade, the multitude, though were very hungry, did not look for what to eat for themselves. Jesus did. Before Philip brought the 5 loaves and 2 fishes, the Scripture says, "For he himself knew what he would do" (John 6: 6).
The shepherd knows where the provisions are in this 2009. Following His directions bring them cheaply to you. No matter how tough the year may be to others out there, for everyone that follow divine direction, the rock will gush out water for them.
4. Divine Lifting
You also enjoy divine lifting when you remain under divine direction. When He led Jacob, he became a city set up on a hill. "For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eyes... So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the hig places of the earth..." Deuteronomy 32: 9 -10, 12 - 13
5. Divine Protection
Divine direction shields you form the plagues, plots and devices of the enemies. Divine direction positions you as the apple of God's eye. And you know, there is no one that can touch the apple of His eyes. Under divine direction, Israel became the apples of God's eye (Deuteronomy 32: 10). Under divine direction, your enemy remains powerless and hopeless and in all frustration watch you sitting on the table the Lordhas prepared for you.
As you aling yourself for God leading, I see this year producing beyond your wildest imaginations in Jesus' name
Stay blessed.
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