Date: Thursday, 30th January, 2025
Text: Genesis 25:29-34
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
It is not everyday you feel like getting up early to go to work. Your body may want to stay longer in bed but you force yourself and get up irrespective of how you feel because you know there are consequences if you delay.
If you must be on top in anything you do, you must not allow your feelings to dictate and control you. Feelings can be manipulated by the devil. It can be influenced by happenings around you. If you are not careful, your feelings can distract you from fulfilling God’s original plan for your life. Feelings can be temporary and fleeting. Esau allowed his temporary feelings of hunger to deprive him of his permanent blessings of birthright as a first born- Genesis 25:29-34.
Sometimes ago I was listening to the late renowned Evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke of Germany. He said there are days he would grab the microphone to preach on the crusade ground and he wouldn’t even feel the presence of God initially. Everything would look casual and ordinary as though nothing special was going on. However, as he continued preaching the word of God, he said, he would begin to feel the anointing come down like showers and fill the whole place.
Don’t wait until you feel like praying before you do; don’t wait until you feel like studying before you do. Stick to your schedule. Feelings are like weather that can be cloudy this hour and become sunny the next. The word of God says, “He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.” Ecclesiastes 11:4.
If you pray only when you feel like praying, you won’t be consistent. There are many days you don’t even feel like fasting. You know you ought to fast; your schedule says so but you just don’t feel like it. But if you must be successful, you go ahead and fast all the same.
Let the word of God guide you and not your feelings.
Prophetic Nugget: Receive grace to be disciplined and consistent in Jesus name.
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