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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Increase comes from God

[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Be grateful for and engage each day

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Oke Chinye
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Read: Job 38:12-15

Meditation verse:

“This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm  118:24).

Every day is a gift from God. It is a privilege to wake up to another day. The  psalmist says “I lay down and slept, I awoke, for the Lord sustained me (Psalm  3:5). It’s a 3-step process. First you lie down, then you sleep, after which you  wake up. Not everyone enjoys the privilege of all three steps. We hear of  instances where people go to bed at night, sleep but do not wake up to see the  next day; they die in their sleep. Others lie down but are unable to enjoy a good  night sleep. Still yet, there are those who do not even get to lie down. They are  harassed by the terrors of the night.  

If God sustained you through the night and enabled you to see a day, it is a  privilege because it means your assignment on earth is not yet over. Each day  comes with its own purpose and work, else it would not exist. Psalm 104:19-23  says: 

He (God) appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the beasts of the forest  creep about. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from  God. When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens. Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening”. 

Therefore, esteem each day as a gift from God, be grateful to Him and ask Him  to direct your path. Then engage the day fully in a manner that will enable you  profit maximally from it. “In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do  not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, either this or  that, or whether both alike will be good” (Ecclesiastes 11:6). As you live out each  day of your life, let God see by your deeds that you are grateful to be alive and  be a part of the day; do good to others and put in your best, working diligently  at whatever your hand finds to do. Remember that there is no work or device or  knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you will end up someday. (Ecclesiastes  9:10).

 

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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