Readings
Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].
James 4:8 AMPC
If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer offered in this place.
2 Chron 7:14-15
But when you pray, go into your [most] private room, and, closing the door, pray to your Father, Who is in secret; and your Father, Who sees in secret, will reward you in the open .
Matthew 6:6 AMPC
The entire world as we know it slowed down and are almost at a stand still
Everything as we know it has changed in a matter of a few weeks and it will never go back to the way we knew it.
Fear has come in like a flood and spread across the face of the earth like I have never seen in my entire life. COVID-19 has become the very thing to fear. It has become the enemy! It infected so many people and spreaded across the globe killing thousands. That has become the reality in our day and age. Fear has caused that reality to manifest.
But I want to tell you God saw this coming. This pandemic has not caught Him unaware.
He knew that in 2020 there will come a plague like the world has never seen before. I also want to tell you that God has already worked out the details. He has been in this very moment even before you and I got here.
He knew that I would be typing this message and that you would be reading it. He has been in our future a year from now and He has already see you and I get out of this on top and victorious. He has got this! He's got you!
Why then did God allow this to happen? Why did He not stop it? Is He not thr all powerful God? Is God punishing us? Is God angry with us?
These are just some of the questions that so many are asking. I want to tell you God isn't scared of any of these questions and He would be willing to answer you.
God is not angry with us and God did not send COVID-19. The Word in John 10:10 says that the enemy came to STEAL,KILL, AND DESTROY. His main function is do destroy what God has created, he hates mankind because we are created in the image of God; whether we know Jesus or not. Me not having a relationship with my mother, doesn't make me look less like her, I still look like her it is DNA. The virus was send to detroy mankind and at the same time to bring so much fear into the hearts of mankind so we don't get the opportunity to discover WHO we are and WHO's we are. Fear cripples us, and consumes us.
You see we live in a sinful world, a fallen world. The result of sin is death. We see this in the natural realm and we will also see it in the supernatural realm when we will one day stand before Jesus and He says go away I don't know you.
However, Jesus says that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR THOSE WHO LOBE GOD AND WHO ARE CALLED FOR HIS PURPOSES.
I believe that God wants to draw us into such a close and intimate relationship with Him during this next 21 days.
The next 21 days will be a basis for your journey with God further.
God will use the inconvenience for His glory.
God is inviting you on a journey of drawing close to Him.
James 4:8, says that when we take that very first step, that God will draw close to you.
The first step towards Him is to get quiet before the Lord.
Give God your time, start with 30min in the morning and ask Holy Spirit to come and reveal Jesus to you. Allow Him to wash over you!
Tell Him everything that is on your heart. Speak to Him like you would with a friend. Share your heart with Him, and thank Him that He listens to you. Thank Him for being a friend, a Father to you.
Quiet yourself from every chore that needs to be done today and honor Him with your time.
Its in the secret place when you shut out all the noise that God meets you and speaks to you. He will give you new business ideas, He will give you answers to questions that you have had. It is in the secret place that God shows you what you have been created for, who you are.
Prayer
Father, thank you that all things work together for those who loves You and who are called according to Your purposes.
Lord I commit myself for the next 21 days to seek You and to get to know You more intimately.
Speak to me Lord, I am listening.
Amen
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