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WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Memorise:
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. .. Hebrews 12:16
Read:
Genesis 25:29-34
Message
One day in 1986, I was having a nice time in fellowship with God when He asked, "Son, what do you want for your birthday?" Ordinarily, I pay little attention to birthdays because, to me the real birthday is the date a fellow becomes born again. However, the day you were born is also important because Psalm 90:12 says,"...teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." I replied, "I want every church member to receive a miracle." Then He said, "Call them together and let them meet with Me for one week. At the end of the week, all of them would have gotten a miracle." That one week in 1986 is one we can never forget in RCCG because God's power was so mighty in our midst that we experienced many jaw-dropping miracles which have been happening more frequently to date.
God is always asking you for what you want. Even if He does not ask you directly as He did with me, He can ask you by presenting two options before you, and your choice can determine the rest of your life. When God asks you for what you want, you will ask for material things that will fade quickly if your mind has always been on material things. In today's Bible reading, Esau did not know that God was indirectly testing him when he returned from his hunt hungry. When Jacob asked him to sell his birthright for a plate of food, he did not consider the choices before him; all he wanted was to fill his belly with food. Esau had enough energy to ask Jacob for food, and this implies that he really wasn't at the point of death, so if he had refused Jacob's offer, he would not have died. However, he accepted Jacob's offer and despised his birthright because his mind was focused on material things. In today's memory verse, he was called a fornicator and a profane person because he chose a material thing over something eternal.
Beloved, you will be faced with choices every day, and the choices you make today will determine the quality of your life tomorrow. What choices are you making today? If God gives you a blank cheque to ask for what you want, what will you ask for? Will you ask for things that fade away, like Esau, or things that are beneficial to fulfilling your glorious destiny in God? I pray that God will give you the wisdom to make the right decisions, in Jesus' name.
Bible In One Year:
Acts 22-23
Hymn:
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Reflection:
Are you making the right choices in your life?
Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah!
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