MEETING DIVINE EXPECTATION
TREASURES OF GRACE (DAILY DEVOTIONAL)
MONDAY, 15TH MAY 2017
TOPIC: MEETING DIVINE EXPECTATION
SCRIPTURE: The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it - Mark 11:12-14
MEMORY VERSE: John 15:8
DIGGING DEEP: A Tree is a large plant having branches. It is has evolved in structure and function. Every plant that has evolved into a tree has deep roots, has height, and has width. It is expected of the tree to provide shade from the scorching sun and produce fruits. But the utmost desire of any planter is to see that the tree he has planted, nutured, trimmed and guarded to maturity bears fruit and succor.
Anyone that is born again is the planting of the Lord and is likened to a tree (Psalm 92:12, 58:2, 1:3). And His desire of us is not different, He wants us to grow in depth, in width, in height, and in function (fruit bearing). But sadly today, there are believers who look like it but are not it. They look like they have the word in them but are empty, they look like they are prayerful but are prayerless, they look like they have fruits of the Holy Spirit but have nothing in them. The outside looks it but inside is not it. They just have the form of godliness but no evidence.
Our text reveals that Jesus was hungry and He needed to eat, He saw this plant from afar full of leaves looking as if it has fruits and His expectations was aroused but on getting close to it, there was no fruit and He cursed it immediately. The implication of this is that:
a. God is hungry: God has a desire that only you can meet, an hunger that only you can quench. God is seeking men who will seek Him and bear His fruits on earth (Isaiah 6:8).
b. He has high expectation of you: He trusts that His investment in your life will never be fruitless. He desires that the leaves of righteousness (which is the word of God) in you will translate into the fruits of righteousness (Philippians 1:11).
c. God is angry with mature and unfruitful trees: God has zero tolerance for this class of people these are the set of people in Hebrews 5:12 "By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one - baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! describe when you ought to be adult you are still fighting to understand basic truths."
d. To avoid judgement is to be fruitful: To be unfruitful is to be useless to God. Nothing attracts a curse like fruitlessness. If you remain unfruitful, you are unfit for God. He can't feed from you. What does God feed from a fruitful son or daughter? He gets back glory. The more fruitful we are the more glory He gets (John 15:8).
It doesn't matter how long you have known the Lord, how high you have gone (maybe now you are a bishop, a pastor and so on), it doesn't matter how long you have been in Church or how mature you seem to look like, if you don't produce fruits, you are useless to God.
I pray for you today, you will be fruitful in Jesus' name.
PRAYER: O Lord everything in me that is making me barren and unfruitful in you take it off me today. Help me to bear fruits unto righteousness in Jesus' name.
QUOTE: No root, no fruit, no fruit, no truth, no truth no proof - Dr. Dabbas Joel
DAILY READING: Psalm 134
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MONDAY, 15TH MAY 2017
TOPIC: MEETING DIVINE EXPECTATION
SCRIPTURE: The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it - Mark 11:12-14
MEMORY VERSE: John 15:8
DIGGING DEEP: A Tree is a large plant having branches. It is has evolved in structure and function. Every plant that has evolved into a tree has deep roots, has height, and has width. It is expected of the tree to provide shade from the scorching sun and produce fruits. But the utmost desire of any planter is to see that the tree he has planted, nutured, trimmed and guarded to maturity bears fruit and succor.
Anyone that is born again is the planting of the Lord and is likened to a tree (Psalm 92:12, 58:2, 1:3). And His desire of us is not different, He wants us to grow in depth, in width, in height, and in function (fruit bearing). But sadly today, there are believers who look like it but are not it. They look like they have the word in them but are empty, they look like they are prayerful but are prayerless, they look like they have fruits of the Holy Spirit but have nothing in them. The outside looks it but inside is not it. They just have the form of godliness but no evidence.
Our text reveals that Jesus was hungry and He needed to eat, He saw this plant from afar full of leaves looking as if it has fruits and His expectations was aroused but on getting close to it, there was no fruit and He cursed it immediately. The implication of this is that:
a. God is hungry: God has a desire that only you can meet, an hunger that only you can quench. God is seeking men who will seek Him and bear His fruits on earth (Isaiah 6:8).
b. He has high expectation of you: He trusts that His investment in your life will never be fruitless. He desires that the leaves of righteousness (which is the word of God) in you will translate into the fruits of righteousness (Philippians 1:11).
c. God is angry with mature and unfruitful trees: God has zero tolerance for this class of people these are the set of people in Hebrews 5:12 "By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one - baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! describe when you ought to be adult you are still fighting to understand basic truths."
d. To avoid judgement is to be fruitful: To be unfruitful is to be useless to God. Nothing attracts a curse like fruitlessness. If you remain unfruitful, you are unfit for God. He can't feed from you. What does God feed from a fruitful son or daughter? He gets back glory. The more fruitful we are the more glory He gets (John 15:8).
It doesn't matter how long you have known the Lord, how high you have gone (maybe now you are a bishop, a pastor and so on), it doesn't matter how long you have been in Church or how mature you seem to look like, if you don't produce fruits, you are useless to God.
I pray for you today, you will be fruitful in Jesus' name.
PRAYER: O Lord everything in me that is making me barren and unfruitful in you take it off me today. Help me to bear fruits unto righteousness in Jesus' name.
QUOTE: No root, no fruit, no fruit, no truth, no truth no proof - Dr. Dabbas Joel
DAILY READING: Psalm 134
ATTEND OUR POWER PACKED SERVICES AND EXPERIENCE THE SUPERNATURAL.
WE'LL LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU (TESTIMONIES, PRAYER REQUESTS)
PLEASE WRITE TO US: dabbasjoel@gmail.com
Or
gracefoundationministriesinternational@gmail.com
JOIN OUR BBM CHANNEL: C00417B0E
READ, FOLLOW, LIKE, ENGAGE, AND COMMENT @ http:/ /http://dabbasjoel.blogspot.com.ng
WHATSAPP: +2347017651300
Grace Foundation Ministry International...making total man...
© 2017 TREASURES OF GRACE ONLINE™
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