Desire The Purposes Of God (Daily Devotional)

Hello everyone, thank you so much for connecting once again. We are focusing on a devoted heart, a heart of devotion unto the Lord and looking at different things that we must yield to, in order to have that kind of a heart. Today, I want to talk about a heart that is given to the purposes of God, a heart that not just desires in a superficial way but a heart that intensely seeks after the fulfillment of God’s promises. We know that there have been several people in the word of God who have had this kind of a heart. When we look at people like Daniel, he held onto the promises of God, he looked at the timelines and he desired that those promises would manifest in the lives of the people and so he prayed and went hard after God to see the fulfilment of those promises. We continue to see people like Abraham, Abraham in fact he was before Daniel and he is a great example of faith who held onto the promise that God gave him and that is something that he lived his life for. We as God’s people today, need to have that passionate heart that seeks after the purposes of God. In Galatians chapter 4, verse 19, Paul writes, ‘My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.’ Paul is talking about a desire which he has and that desire is to see Christ formed in the believers. It is a prayer as a shepherd, as somebody who is an overseer over these people, he wanted them to be discipled in such a way that Christ would be formed in them or in other words, that they would come to fullness in Christ, that they would come to maturity in Christ and we notice that he uses terminologies such as ‘I labor in birth again’. So, he has a heart which is striving, which is ready to yearn after, which is ready to labor after and labor in birth is more like a delivery term where we know that a woman travails before the child is actually born. So, Paul is talking about desiring God and His purposes, not just at a superficial level but he has come to a place in his life where he is holding onto the call of God, the vision that God has given him and he is so in to that plan and purpose that he is even travailing or he is experiencing those labor pains (in a spiritual sense), the agony of giving birth to the promises of God. Giving birth to the promises of God has a process in itself and one needs to work together with God in order for those things to happen. Friends, the point that I’m making is let’s desire the purposes of God in an intense way and let the desire go to a place of having a burden and I say that in a positive sense, a good burden, a spiritual burden in our hearts, to take the gospel out, to disciple people, to plant churches, to serve the kingdom purposes and even as we do that, great and mighty things will be done through the body of Christ. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we pray for our hearts, we pray that you will help us focus on the things that you desire for us. We pray that our hearts will be completely yielded to your purposes and let every distraction be uprooted, we give you thanks and praise, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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