[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: What has God said to you?

By Oke Chinye

Read: PSALM 119:89-106 

Meditation verse: 

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105).

When God gives you a word of promise, He expects you to do something with it. He gave it to you as a guide so that you do not grope or stumble in darkness. The bible states that God’s  word is a lamp to our feet. Your feet are for going forth. When you take hold of a lamp in a  dark room, you do not juststand still. You put the light in front of you and move forward. That  way, you do not grope in the dark, stumble, fall or end up in a wrong place. Similarly, with  God’s word, you will not stumble through life or miss your way entirely. But you must run  with the word, for it to light up your path.  

It took several years before I understood this principle. Towards the end of each year, I would  take out time to wait on God in fasting and prayers. I would ask Him for a theme based on a  scripture to guide me in the coming year and He was always faithful. One evening, I sat at my  desk looking at all the themes that God had given me in the past years and wondering why  they had not yielded the resultsI expected. It suddenly dawned on me that God had expected  me to order my plans and activities for each year based on the word He had given me. I had  however sat still, expecting a magic wand to make things happen.  

For instance, the year He gave me “purposeful advancement towards a life of significance”,  did I in the cause of the year, come up with a plan on how I would advance into significance  in key areas of my life? Did Iseek out enough opportunitiesto show case my gifts and talents?  Purposeful means intentional, planned or thought off and to be significant, you must show  up. When He said, “grow unto perfection”, did I increase the time I spent studying His word?  Did I ponder on what childish things I needed to do away with to become mature?  

When God gives you a specific word, it is because He wants to accomplish something specific  in that area of your life, but unless you act based on the word, nothing happens. What has  God said to you? What have you done or what are you doing with what He has said to you? If His mouth has spoken, then His zeal has already perfected. This month, run with the word  that He has given to you.

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

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