DATE: FRIDAY, 28TH JANUARY 2022
STEP BY STEP IN KNOWING THE LORD INTIMATELY.
Genesis 28:12-13;
_"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;"_
Key Message: Our knowledge of God is the vital pre-requisite in determining our relevance in the kingdom.
God's ultimate desire is for every of His children to know Him Intimately. If your knowledge of God is limited to what the Fathers say about Him, you'll be limited in destiny. Jacob must have had about the God his grandfather and father served.
Isaac didn't limit his knowledge on what Abraham told him about the God he encountered in Haran. He experienced him when the angel spoke to his Father from heaven at Mount Moriah. It was an awesome experience. However, he didn't stop there. He created a platform to know the Lord on His own.
His intimate knowledge of God was the reason why he abandoned his plan to move down to Egypt according to God's instruction during the time of famine in Gerar. Gen.26:1-6
In order for God to continue what He has begun in Abraham and Isaac in Jacob, it was very important for him (Jacob) to know the Lord. God appeared to him the first time he was left alone, he saw him from afar but there was ladder that determine how many steps he needed to climb to be intimated with the Lord.
Jacob appreciated the encounter by demarcating a stone to remember the spot. He prayed a baby prayer like some of us. If God will bless me and supply all my needs where I will go, I will return to this altar to serve this God. God's appearance is not to majorly change things for us but to change things in us.
Jacob lacked spiritual understanding on how to enter the dimensions of economy of God by His appearance. He then suffered for 21 years to learn what he had failed to learn in one day.
You see, we can't boast of knowing the Lord if He has not dealt with us. God's dealing with us is what furnishes our understanding of Him accurately. Jacob suffered for that long to learn the principle of absolutely depending on God. At first Rebekah his mother was his backbone. Now it was Laban his uncle playing God over his life.
The next time God appeared to him he quickly grab it because he has learnt to be sensitive to divine instruction. God delivered to him the formula that transformed Laban's wealth to him. He believed it by applying it as instructed and his life experience supernatural turnaround.
It is always good we develop hunger to grow in knowing the Lord than to allow circumstances and hardship to force us to know Him. I pray the Lord will deliver you from spiritual ignorance causing you to be suffering unnecessarily in Jesus name.
ASSIGNMENT
Mention what you must be doing this year to upgrade your knowledge of God.
PRAYER
_Father, quench my thirst to pay the price of knowing you this year._
DAILY BIBLE READING
Gen. 28-30, Psa. 23 & 63 , Eph.1:15-23, Col. 1:9-10
PROPHETIC DECLARATION
The Lord will be merciful unto you. May you never reach the peak of satisfaction of your knowledge of God. Receive grace to keep desiring Him more and more all the days your life.
Be blessed.
Daniel Generation
Daily Milk.
BY PST. STEVE ALADARE
