Sunday 01/12/2025

This morning, you’re not just coming to attend a service—you’re stepping into a divine appointment. This is not just another religious program, but an encounter that has the power to transform your being for the entire year ahead. How will you present yourself before God? With what mindset? Are you prepared to receive? Too often, we arrive at church with hearts weighed down by the whirlwind of the week, burdened by worries, distractions, and daily concerns. But today is the Lord’s day. It’s the day He speaks, the day He instructs, the day He builds. Psalm 100:4 exhorts us: “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” This preparation begins with a decision: to come before God with an open heart, ready and hungry for His word.

If you don’t silence the inner noise, how will you hear the voice of the Spirit? There is a war for your attention, a spiritual battle aimed at keeping you distracted, tired, absorbed in everything except what truly matters. The enemy knows that if you come before God with a scattered heart, you will leave the service without truly being impacted. He stirs up agitation, wandering thoughts, barren concerns. But today, refuse that. Let go of every distraction. Set aside anything that could steal your focus and choose to align yourself. Come like an empty vessel, ready to be filled. Come with divine expectation.

Do you realize this service could change the course of your year? God has prepared a particular deposit for you—a revelation, a direction, a specific instruction. Habakkuk 2:1 declares: “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me…” Today, come with that prophetic posture, that spiritual vigilance. You are not here by accident. God wants to place within you a vision, a word that will pull you out of confusion and spiritual ambiguity. Think of Daniel: it was a firm decision that propelled him into a glorious destiny. What if today were the day God gives you the strategy to sanctify yourself, prosper, and walk in authority in 2025? Come with the certainty that you will not leave this place the same as you came.

It is time to reject all passivity. This morning, even before the worship begins, align yourself spiritually. Take a moment to pray fervently and ask God to sensitize your heart. Revisit the Bible verses from the week, meditate again on the truths you studied. Engage in worship as a true worshiper. Stop behaving like a spectator—become an active participant in your own spiritual awakening. Arrive with a thirst, a hunger that compels God to reveal the hidden treasures of His word. Avoid all distraction. Put your phone on silent, remove from your mind anything that could disturb your focus. This is not just a simple service—it’s a meeting with your Creator.

Lord, today I refuse to come into Your house unprepared. My heart is hungry, my spirit is thirsty. Open my spiritual ears, break every distraction, every veil of blindness. I want to hear Your voice, capture Your heart, understand Your instructions. Speak clearly to me, Lord. Transform my character, sanctify my being, open the floodgates of Heaven over my life. Let the word I receive today not just be another exhortation, but a sword that pierces my spiritual life. I position myself to receive with faith, with eagerness, with humility. Fill me, transform me, equip me for the year ahead. In the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.

At the Heart of the Bible: Luke 8:18 – “Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”