Sunday, December 29th 2024
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome DSc DSc DD
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue (Psalm 39:3).
The psalmist in the verse above said, “While I was musing, the fire burned”; that tells us something powerful about meditation: it causes the spiritual fire to burn; it fuels your inspiration. What are your expectations, plans, targets, goals and aims for the incoming year? You can put yourself on the right track and fuel your inspiration by taking time to meditate on the Word.
Jeremiah, like the psalmist, in Jeremiah 20:9, decided not to speak any more about God, but the fire within him—God’s Word in his heart—burned so intensely that he couldn’t hold back: “Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.” Jeremiah 5:14 says, “Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.” Also, in Jeremiah 23:29, the Bible says, “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”
We just read from two prophets, David and Jeremiah, who knew how to burn for God, and they shared their secret: meditating on God’s Word. It emboldens you to speak the Word with passion and conviction. So, as you pray and fast in preparation for the coming year, make sure you consciously meditate on God’s Word.
Pray fervently in tongues, and meditate on the Word until you get to the point where you release this “fire” from within you and enforce the victory the Lord Jesus Christ has wrought in your behalf.
PRAYER
Dear Father, I thank you for your Word, which burns in my heart, inspiring me to boldly declare your truth and purpose for my life, and to enforce your will in the earth and in the lives of men, all over the world, as I manifest and express your glory in every area of my life, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY
|| 1 Timothy 4:15
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. ||
|| Joshua 1:8 AMPC
This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success. ||
|| Jeremiah 20:9 NIV
But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. ||
DAILY SCRIPTURE READING
1-Year Bible Reading Plan
Revelation 20 & Zechariah 12-14
2-Year Bible Reading Plan
Revelation 21:13-27 & Zechariah 13-14
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