Demontae Edmonds
f4nations.com
GOD’S NOT A GENIE
When I was younger my prayer life consisted of asking God for what I wanted and desired. As a kid a part of me viewed God like the genie in the bottle who would grant you wishes if you where a good person and prayed to him. I would make my list of items to ask God for in prayer. Later, in life I discovered that first and foremost God desired a personal and intimate relationship with each person. Secondly, God had things that He himself personally desired to see happen in the lives of individuals, community, Body of Christ, and world. God has been dealing with me to share this message lately.
God is not a genie trapped in the bottle of Heaven only working for our wishes to be granted. He is Heavenly Father desiring a mutual exchange between him and his spiritual sons and daughters. In 2020, do you know what God is desiring from you? I’m sure for many of us God desires several if not many things. But one specific thing God is desiring from us in 2020.
A 3 LETTER WORD
God has been waiting weeks, months, and for some years for us to give Him a “yes” to His will for our life. Not his partial will but his full will.
“Yes” is a short yet powerful word. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary provides one definition for “yes’ as — “used as a function word to express assent or agreement.”
THE POWER OF AGREEMENT
God wants believers to be in agreement with Him. Something dynamic happens when we begin to walk in agreement with God’s plan for our life. Many have asked God for His blessings, but failed to ask God for the plan for their life. Lets go even further. In addition, to asking for the plan of God for our life to be revealed we need to ask God to do a work in us so that we can say “Yes” to that plan.
Until we give God our “Yes” than oftentimes we find ourselves resisting the Holy Spirit’s prompting, direction, and guidance.
We truly begin to walk with God and becomes more real to us when we learn to be led by His Holy Spirit. Romans 8:14, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.” Sonship is directly related to being led by His Spirit. Sons receive the fullness of divine inheritance that God has purposed for believers.
Amos 3:3, “Can two walk together except they be agreed.” The power of “Yes’ release divine agreement between man and heaven that causes the kingdom of God to be revealed to us in a new way.
FROM THE HEART
Spiritual truth is powerful when embraced and put into use. Merely agreeing with God’s plan or surrendering to him from a mental standpoint is called “mental assent.” God is calling for a “Yes” that comes from deep within in our heart and spirit. A powerful prayer that we can pray is to ask God to move our “yes” from our head to our heart. Psalms 42:7, “Deep calls to deep.”
The power of God is activated on your behalf when your “yes” or words of agreement with God flow from your heart out of your mouth.
A “YES” RELEASES THE BLESSINGS OF GOD
Moses reveals that it is the will of God that man is coerced into obedience but has an active part to play in the will of God and the power of choice. How we respond to the voice of God and obey the Word of God can position us for divine blessings. Note that Moses shared with the children of Israel their obedience would not only bring blessing into their life but also into their “seed” ; their children and children’s children.
Deuteronomy 30:19, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
Deuteronomy 11:26, “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day;”
ONE “YES” AFFECTS BILLIONS
In Luke 22, Jesus is found praying in the Garden of Gethsmane. Luke 22:41 “And kneeled down, and prayed, saying, Father, if thou willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”
Prayer started a process of spiritual submission where Jesus resisted the temptation to resist or rebel against the will of God for his life. Calvary’s Cross was part of the Father’s road to destiny for his son Jesus. Jesus prayed three times in the Garden until any apprehension in his heart about surrendering fully to the will of God was demolished. Jesus gave the Father a “Yes” in that Garden.
The result of Jesus obedience can only be measured or calculated by heaven itself. His one “Yes” was the catalyst for the redemption of billions of souls throughout the ages. Hebrews 2:11, “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make he captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” The yes in the Garden of Gethsmane was the gateway to us being restored to the glory lost to mankind in the Garden of Eden.
In 2020, God is desiring your yes. Your yes may seem small but it may be the key for many lives, families, and institutions coming into the redemptive plan of God. Your yes may be the key to your family’s salvation. Your yes may be the key to lost souls in your community coming to know Christ. Your yes may be the key to co-workers receiving knowledge of God. Your yes may be the key that breaks generational curses affecting your bloodline. Your yes may be the connecting force that takes your prophetic word from promise to manifestation.
Say “Yes” to Jesus in 2020 and experience the good of the land that God has purposed for you!.
Isaiah 1:19 “If you be willing and obedient, ye shall EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND!”
PRAYER
Father God thank you for your grace and mercy. I thank you that you are the giver of life and source of all goodness. Please forgive me any past disobedience and resistance to your will. I ask that you would give me an ear to hear the voice of your Holy Spirit. Please remove any spiritual blindness that I can more fully the plan that you have for my life. I thank you that according to Jeremiah 29:11 that you have a plan for my life and it is a good plan to prosper me. Father please remove unbelief and fear so that my faith can arise to give you a true yes from the heart.
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