Accept Responsibility

Never be lazy in your work, but serve the Lord enthusiastically. Romans 12:11. TLB

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You need to accept responsibility, push the devil out of the way and enforce the release of what belongs to you.

Yesterday we saw from the story of Jabez that things will not work for you until you work them out. Today we are looking at how to accept responsibility and some examples of people who did the same in Scripture. One of such people was Joseph who was shown the picture of his future as someone who would stand in authority with his brethren bowing to him. But this did not come on a platter of gold as it took nothing less than thirteen (13) solid years of all manner of challenges before he could arrive there. David was anointed to become King at the age of seventeen (17) by Prophet Samuel, but that Anointing did not automatically make the throne vacant. He waited for another thirteen (13) solid years; he had to work to sit on the throne including bringing down Goliath and having deadly confrontations with the reigning king, King Saul. That is to say, irrespective of the circumstances of your birth, you have to pay the price of responsibility to get to authority or fulfil your destiny in life.

Jacob got the birthright from Esau, and got their father’s blessing as well, but it took twenty-one (21) years before the real substance of his covenant blessing was released in his life. Isaac was the son of a rich man (Abraham), and by virtue of this, he probably didn’t have to work in order to sustain his life, but he refused to depend on the success of his father; he worked very hard, and literally fought his way up. You need to accept responsibility, push the devil out of the way and enforce the release of what belongs to you.

The fact that you are born again and filled with the Holy Ghost does not mean you have to sit down, fold your arms and wait for food to jump into your mouth. You need to wake up, be aware, alert and make demands on God for your spiritual inheritance to come to you. God is about to transform, translate, and translocate you from that miserable condition of life into an honourable place, in the Name of Jesus!

ASSIGNMENT(S):
1. Accept responsibility for every promise of God in the Scriptures in order to make it real.
2. Study 1 Timothy 1:18.

PRAYER: I take possession of every promise that God has released for me in the Scriptures, in Jesus’ Name.

DAILY READING: Exodus 37:1–38:31; Matthew 28:1–20; Psalms 34:11–22; Proverbs 9:9–10

QUOTE: What you do not seek after, you are not permitted to find. Culled from 10 PRINCIPAL SECRETS OF PRINCIPAL PEOPLE by Dr Paul Enenche.

Source: Seeds of Destiny, 14/02/2015.