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Intention

 Daniel 1:8

Your intention is what you aim to do, what you intend, or plan.

Our intention matters.

It matters because it comes from the heart, and God deals with our hearts.

Serving God and living for God in a world system where everything possible will come against your relationship with God is something we have to be intentional about.

Your intention can get you blessed.

Your intention is from your heart, and the heart is what God looks at.

1 Samuel 16:7

Your intention matters because we are relating with a God who knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 44:21

God knows the thoughts and intents of our heart.

God's word discerns the thoughts and intents of our hearts.

Hebrews 4:12

God knows if you plan to do His will or not.

God knows if you intend to please Him.

God knows if Jesus or His kingdom message is your aim.

God cannot be mocked or deceived.

He is a God before whom all things are made plain.

Hebrews 4:13

God knows and sees our intentions.

Daniel's intentions pleased God, yours can too.

Daniel purposed in his heart that He wouldn't defile himself with the delicacies of king Nebuchadenezzer's table and God blessed him for it.

Daniel 1:8-15

Our intention is part of what makes us like God.

God has intentions and they are good.

Jeremiah 29:11

You can intend and purpose in your heart to be good, to make a difference, to serve God, and contribute positively to humanity.

You can intend not to live a life of sin anymore, and God will grace your intention.

Our intention is a choice, and God respects our choice.

When your will power is added to your intention, it becomes a purpose.

Daniel's mind was made up that he wouldn't sin against God by eating food dedicated to, and prayed over in the name of another god. A demon.

King Nebuchadenezzer worshipped a false god at the time, this was before he experienced the God of Daniel.

Daniel was blessed by God because his intention was right and he stuck by it.

A lot of the sins we struggle with keep recurring, could it be it's  because we haven't purposed in our hearts to overcome them?


Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shares this message.


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