Wisdom For The Day Devotional 27 September 2023 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo – God Functions In The Eternal Now
TOPIC: God Functions In The Eternal Now (TREM Devotional 27 September 2023)
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
MESSAGE:
Satan’s assignment is to create circumstances that are not palatable. That is his job! He desires to increase the challenges around you to make you think that things can never turn out well. The more you look around you and it looks as if things can never work, know that the devil is carrying out his assignment. His business is to tell you that your mill barrel is empty, and nobody is going to help you. His responsibility is to show you how you are already on the floor and how nothing has changed in your life. If you fall for any of the devil’s antics, then what God has ordained for you will never happen.
You are not a thermometer; you are a thermostat. You determine your environment. You must learn to encourage yourself in the Lord irrespective of what you are facing. Remember that God does not live in a time zone. He lives in a timeless zone. So, with God, everything is always in the now. Faith is now or never. If you don’t receive the prophecy now it will never happen. If you decide that what will make you receive the prophecy is when circumstances around you change, you have missed the point. When you receive it now, you have aligned yourself in God’s timeless zone and then God will now come from that timeless zone to the time zone.
The delay is not because it is not yet done. Whatsoever you desire, when you pray believe that you have received it. The Bible does not say ‘believe you are going to receive’ but it says you receive it now. Whatever you are trusting God for is made available in the now. Things may be working contrary in your office but always remember, God has done it. God does not have tomorrow or yesterday to answer prayers. He only has now. Now faith is, not faith was or will be!
FURTHER READING:
Psalms 39:6-7; Isaiah 43:18-19; Hebrews 11:1
DAILY BIBLE READING:
Morning – Isaiah 3-4; Evening – Galatians 6
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
