24TH DECEMBER 2024 SEED OF DESTINY WRITTEN BY THE SENIOR PASTOR OF DUNAMIS, DR PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE

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

Tuesday 24TH DECEMBER 2024

Our TOPIC: WHEN THEY HATE YOU, GOD LIFTS YOU.

Today's SCRIPTURE: And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren..Genesis chapter 29 verse 31. Hallelujah!

Our THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Consciously or unconsciously, those who hate you end up becoming instruments in God's Hands to help you.

Hate is a negative behaviour with many toxic effects. The interesting thing is that not even the hater is spared the toxicity of their hate.
One of the toxic effects or destructiveness of hate on the hater is the frustration and disappointment of their own expectations.
The hater will always end up frustrated and disappointed in life.
In Scripture, God usually frustrates the expectations of the hater and opens doors for the one who is hated.
We find a good example in Genesis chapter 29 verse 31 which says,
“And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.”
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb, while Rachel who was loved remained barren.

If you want someone’s doors to open, hate them. If you want them to experience more breakthroughs in life, hate them.

The truth is, consciously or unconsciously, those who hate you end up becoming instruments in God's Hands to help you.
This is because, in God’s Presence, the hated becomes a candidate for His help.
We see another example in Exodus chapter 1 verse 12 which says,
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.”
This means that the more the Egyptians hated and afflicted the Israelites, the more the Israelites grew and multiplied. The Israelites grew so large in number that the Egyptians were grieved and wanted to destroy them, but the Israelites could not be overcome.

This is how God frustrates your haters. So, do not fear hatred. Do not be afraid of being hated, because if a man did not lift you up, that man cannot bring you down. If a man did not create you, he cannot finish you.
Remember this: Consciously or unconsciously, those who hate you end up becoming instruments in God's Hands to help you.

Take this ASSIGNMENT with you:
#1. Maintain a godly character, live an upright life.
#2. Don’t be afraid of being hated by people so long as your ways are right before God.
#3. Always know that when people hate you, that is when God is set to lift you. Yes sir!

Our PRAYER today: Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I access great heights in You as I experience Your lifting Power amid people’s hate, Lord, in Jesus Name. Amen!

For FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: TOXIC HATE (PART THREE).

QUOTE: Most people allow these emotions to run wild at some point in time in their lives. It is a foolish thing to do.

Culled from the book, “21 Foolish Things People Do” by Dr Paul Enenche.

Today's Bible DAILY READING: from the book of 3RD John to Revelation chapter 1.

We start with 3RD John, The Elder,To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth: Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers, who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well, We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth. because they went forth for His name’s sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church. Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. Demetrius has a good testimony from all, and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness, and you know that our testimony is true. but I hope to see you shortly, and we shall speak face to face.Peace to you. Our friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink; Hallelujah!

Jude chapter 1, Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh. And on some have compassion, making a distinction; Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,And to present you faultlessBefore the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior,Who alone is wise,Be glory and majesty,Dominion and power,Both now and forever.Amen. hallelujah!

Revelations chapter 1, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth.To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, Beginning and End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.” Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this. The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches. Hallelujah!

AMAZING FACT: A lion's eyes reflect light due to a layer called the tapetum lucidum, helping them see in the dark.

Today's PROPHETIC WORD (and DECLARATION):
May the LORD cause your lifting to happen this day, in Jesus Name. AMEN hallelujah