20TH JULY 2024 SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY DR PAUL ENENCHE

SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY SENIOR PASTOR OF DUNAMIS INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL CENTRE, DR PAUL ENENCHE

Saturday 20TH JULY 2024

Today's TOPIC: LIGHT, A SOURCE OF HOPE

SCRIPTURE: Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; PSALM 13:3. Hallelujah!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Light signals hope.
Many years ago, I came across an experiment where a group of rabbits were put in an open container.

And another group of rabbits were put in a closed container. They were all struggling to get out of those containers.

It was discovered that within a short time, those rabbits in a closed container died in rapid succession because they saw no light. But those in the open container continued to struggle for freedom for as long as they could see light. The reason was, as long as they could see light, they could see hope.

You see, light signals hope. That is why when people are depressed, they love to stay in darkness. Depressed people like dark places.

Our anchor scripture says, lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

This means, “Lighten my eyes so I can have life and escape the sleep of death. Lighten my eyes so I can have hope.” So, light signals hope. And as light bearers, we are the hope of our generation.

Beloved, people who wish to die should look at you and change their minds, and opt for life instead of death.

Sometime ago, some people told me, “We have lost hope in our country, but whenever we see you pray for the nation the way you do, our hope for the country is revived afresh.”

No man of God is authorized to be a negative prophecy giver.
Prophecy comes for edification and comfort.
If anything negative is revealed to you, it is revealed so it can be deleted. God unravels what the enemy plans so it can be cancelled. He reveals it so you can reverse it.

Beloved, you are a hope giver, a hope distributor.
You are the hope of your family, the hope of your community, the hope of your nation, and the hope of your generation.

Remember this: Light signals hope.

Take this ASSIGNMENTS with you:

#1. Consistently feed your spirit man with God’s Word for your shinning.

#2. Let your light shine in your generation.

#3. Let your speech be always seasoned with hope. Yes sir!

Our PRAYER today: Lord, I receive the grace to shine, and transmit hope to my generation. Let men see my good works and glorify Your Name, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE FLAMING FIRE.

QUOTE: Every star is guaranteed shinning at its allocated or allotted spot by God. Culled from the book, “Wisdom for Distinction” by Dr Paul Enenche.

Today's DAILY READING: from Isaiah chapter 16 to 18.
We start with Isaiah chapter 16, Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,From Sela to the wilderness,To the mount of the daughter of Zion. For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest;So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. “Take counsel, execute judgment;Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;Hide the outcasts,Do not betray him who escapes. Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.For the extortioner is at an end, Devastation ceases, The oppressors are consumed out of the land. In mercy the throne will be established;And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.” We have heard of the pride of Moab, He is very proud, Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;But his lies shall not be so. Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;Everyone shall wail.For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;Surely they are stricken. For the fields of Heshbon languish,And the vine of Sibmah; The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,Which have reached to Jazer And wandered through the wilderness.Her branches are stretched out,They are gone over the sea. Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,With the weeping of Jazer;I will drench you with my tears,O Heshbon and Elealeh;For battle cries have fallen Over your summer fruits and your harvest. Gladness is taken away,And joy from the plentiful field;In the vineyards there will be no singing,Nor will there be shouting;No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;I have made their shouting cease. Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,And my inner being for Kir Heres. And it shall come to pass,When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;But he will not prevail. This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.” hallelujah!

Isaiah chapter 17, The burden against Damascus.“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,And it will be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken;They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid. The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,The kingdom from Damascus,And the remnant of Syria;They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”Says the Lord of hosts. “In that day it shall come to pass That the glory of Jacob will wane,And the fatness of his flesh grow lean. It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,And reaps the heads with his arm;It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,Like the shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”Says the Lord God of Israel. In that day a man will look to his Maker,And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. He will not look to the altars,The work of his hands;He will not respect what his fingers have made,Nor the wooden images nor the incense altars. In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough And an uppermost branch,Which they left because of the children of Israel;And there will be desolation. Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings; In the day you will make your plant to grow,And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow. Woe to the multitude of many people Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,And to the rushing of nations That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. Then behold, at eventide, trouble!And before the morning, he is no more.This is the portion of those who plunder us,And the lot of those who rob us. Hallelujah!

Isaiah chapter 18, Woe to the land shadowed with buzzing wings,Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, Which sends ambassadors by sea,Even in vessels of reed on the waters, saying,“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin,To a people terrible from their beginning onward,A nation powerful and treading down,Whose land the rivers divide.” All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it. For so the Lord said to me,“I will take My rest,And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine,Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower,He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches. They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth;The birds of prey will summer on them,And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them. In that time a present will be brought to the Lord of hostsFrom a people tall and smooth of skin,And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,A nation powerful and treading down,Whose land the rivers divide—To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,To Mount Zion. Hallelujah!

AMAZING FACT: A grasshopper's ears are found not on its head, but rather, on its belly.

Today's PROPHETIC DECLARATION and WORD: Father, thank You for being the Hope of my life. I shall live to fulfil my days LORD, in Jesus Name. Amen!