Psalm 16:11 Our text passage shows us there is joy and there are pleasures in the presence of God. There is a type of joy we will never know or experience except we get into His presence. We can access the presence of God and go into the presence of God regularly even daily. In life we want joy, we all wish to live a life of joy. In life we also want pleasures, that is why we seek all sorts of entertainment. But those pleasures we get here are fleeting, they are temporary. There is long lasting and permanent joy in the Lord's presence. We access the presence of God through singing, through songs, the Lord loves music . Psalm 100:2 Our rest is found in the Lord's presence. Life can have its turbulent moments. Life can have its difficult seasons. That's why we need rest. We have to find rest. True rest, in a difficult world is found in the Lord's presence. Exodus 33:14 The presence of God is also called the secret place. We also access it through prayer . Hebrews 4:16 We...

Job 14: 7-9 Growth is the plan and will of God. Nature shows this and the scriptures informs us so. Our text passage shows us a tree stomp can grow again at the scent of water. This means the tree stomp had grown or was once growing before something went wrong. It was cut down and water was taken away from it. At the scent of water it started growing again. Water is life, it represents life spiritually, which Jesus Christ gives. Water also represents grace. May God water our lives with His grace! The grace of God waters our lives, enriching us. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Growth means development, evolving, changing, transforming, increasing, and rising. Children grown into adults, hobbies can grown into businesses and income streams, seeds evolve into plants, chicks grown into hens and cockerels, puppies grown into dogs and kittens into cats. Every animal was once at a baby stage and they evolve from there by growing into their adult form. When a farmer plants a seed, he expects it to grow. As ...

 1 Samuel 16:13 It is God who makes kings. It is God who creates royalty. It is God who chooses leadership. It is God who brings about royal lines, and royal lineages on earth. He does it in His sovereign will and plan. He choses kings. He lifts up kings and brings down kings. He brings people before royalty. He makes royals out of non royals. He does so according to His purposes. He does so by His Spirit. There is a dimension of God's Spirit that makes royals, both spiritual and earthly royals. It is called the Spirit of the Lord. This was that dimension of the Holy Spirits anointing that came upon David. The Spirit of the Lord makes royalty of men and can make a dynasty of kingship from a family and lineage. The Spirit of the Lord makes wisdom available to those who have it. Wisdom rewards and honors men. Proverbs 4:8,9 Wisdom is a requirement for leaders and rulers. Wisdom is often associated with kings God has chosen- King Saul before he departed from the Lord, Joseph in Egypt,...

Judges 16:28 Our text passage shows us God remembered Samson and granted him his heart desire. God answered Samson's prayer. In remembering Samson, Samson's prayer was answered and he performed one final exploit which fulfilled his life's mission on earth. It is a beautiful thing for God to remember you. When God remembers you for good get ready for good things. When God remembered Samson, his prayer was answered and he was honored with strength while his enemies the Philistines were destroyed. Judges 16:28-30 Every time God remembers a person or a people for good in scriptures it is either for honor or deliverance. This is when God remembers a person for good. May God honor and deliver us. God is not blind that He cannot see us. God is not deaf that He cannot hear us. God is not armless or his hands too short that He cannot stretch out His hands to deliver. Isaiah 59: 1-2 Isaiah 50: 2 God is not a carved image made from wood, God is not some small pocket god that we carry ...

Acts 1:8  There is a power that makes a human being more than a mere mortal. There is a spiritual power that answers to all areas and issues of life. There is a power that makes our lives whole, healed, well and established. There is a power that makes us effective in our life's assignment, calling and responsibilities. Acts 1:8 There is a power that brings salvation and attracts people to your God. There is a power that establishes families, businesses, careers and the work of a man's hand. Humanity was not originally created powerless. We were created with the blessing of the Lord. Genesis 1:26,28 To be blessed is to be empowered, it is an empowerment to succeed. The Lord would have us succeed. Your life needs power. You have a need for power so as to win every warfare against you. Ephesians 6:12 You need power to prevail in life. A powerless man, a mere man can be swallowed up in life at any moment. When the power of God is in and upon you, what took out others will not take...

Genesis 49: 1-28 Our text passage shows us Israel praying over his twelve sons and telling them what was to befall them in the years ahead of them. It's a very insightful passage we can draw many life lessons and spiritual lessons from. The power of a fathers prayer over his children, especially a godly father is very powerful. Jacob who became Israel is one of the father's of faith. He is the grandson of Abraham and the son of Isaac. Jacob was a man of great destiny. He was a man of God,  he was prophetic and he had encounters with God., great encounters of God. One of the places where we see the prophetic dimension at work the most in Jacob/Israel's life is in his fatherly/patriarchal blessing to  each of his twelve sons. Through Jacob/Israel's prayer for his sons we see the power of a father's prayer for his children. The words of Jacob/Israel during his prophetic prayers for his twelve sons show us not only what had happened in the lives of his sons up till the ...