RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6TH TRUST THE LORD AND STAY FOCUSED BY PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME.

• Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3 NIV).

  In setting new goals, and in your plan to create new levels of prosperity and growth, stay focused on the Word. Pray and meditate on the Word. Set definite times of fellowship with the Spirit. Every now and then, speak in tongues and talk to the Lord about your goals, and He'll make sure you achieve them. Psalm 37:5 says, "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."

  Isaiah 26:3 says, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." The phrase translated "perfect peace" in the verse above implies peace with prosperity. It says, "thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee...." You must stay your mind on the Lord.

  Take your mind away from the news and information that cause fear, depression, and distractions, and stay your mind on the Lord and His eternal Word. Discipline your mind in one direction—the direction of God's Word—and you'd have good success, prosperity with peace.

  Joshua 1:8 says, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." Keeping your mind focused on the Lord and His Word guarantees you a life of true success. You might ask, "What's the connection between my mind and my prosperity?"

  You see, your mind is where God seeks to work. If He can get a hold of your mind, you can become as healthy, prosperous, and successful as He wants you to be. Your mind is the doorway to your spirit, and out of your spirit are the issues of life.

  No matter how financially down and out, in debt, sick or afflicted someone might be, if the Word of God can get into that person's system, things will change in a moment of time. God's Word is God's recipe for divine health, wealth, and the glorious life. Trust the Lord and stay focused on His Word.

  PRAYER

  Thank you precious Father, for your Word to me today! My mind is focused on the Word, and I refuse to be distracted. Therefore, victory, success, prosperity and divine health are evident in my life because I've given myself wholly to the Word, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

  FURTHER STUDY: Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. :8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  DAILY SCRIPTURE READING:

  1-Year Bible Reading Plan: Matthew 5:21-48, Genesis 15-17.

  2-Year Bible Reading Plan: Acts 7:22-32, Nehemiah 10.
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