Isaiah 48:17 
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go. 

DAILY READING –  1 Corinthians 12; 2 Kings 6:1-7:2; Jonah 1
The great healing evangelist John G. Lake, was a man of vision, and strength, whose one goal in life was to bring the fullness of God to every man. He not only succeeded as a minister of the Gospel, he was also a very successful businessman, before going into full time ministry. And part of the secret of his success in business was his unbroken connection to The Spirit of God. 

In 1901, as a young man, Lake moved to Zion, Illinois, to study divine healing under the great preacher John Alexander Dowie. While there, he was employed as Dowie’s building manager in his new Zion city housing project.   Lake invested in Zion’s properties while working for Dowie. But due to a financial downturn in Dowie’s ministry, Lake’s  holdings depreciated leaving him in near financial ruins.  Almost penniless, Lake relocated to Chicago, where he bought a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade.

At this time Lake had learned the secret of unbroken connection with The Spirit of God. In the book ‘God’s Generals’ he stated that “It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged in the common affairs of every day, my spirit maintained its attitude of communion with God.”

Even while he worked on mundane things, he constantly prayed in the Holy Ghost. The result of this was that he became divinely guided in the business decisions he took. Within one year of losing his investments at Dowie’s Zion city project, he was able to accumulate over $130,000 in the bank, and real estate worth $90,000.

Recognizing his gifts, certain business executives quickly asked Lake to form a trust of the nation’s three largest insurance companies for a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year. He accepted, and soon became business consultant to top business executives, and was making hundreds of dollars through commissions as well.

Indeed by the standards of his time,  John G. Lake was now making a fortune. For a while he was able to juggle his great secular success and still grow in God, because he had learned the secret of unbroken fellowship. Even as the call of God inside of him continued to grow, by learning to commune with God from within his spirit, Lake progressed toward the perfect timing for his ministry. And when the time finally came for him to fully answer the call, the same secret of unbroken fellowship with The Spirit, made him to become one of the greatest preachers  the world had ever seen. 

Isaiah 48:17 says ‘Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.’

It is God that teaches us to profit. Despite our busy schedules, we can remain constantly connected to The Spirit of God. While our hands are working , our spirit can remain in sweet communion with God, through ceaseless flow of prayer. Just like you would plug your phone into electricity, we need to plug our spiritual life into God. Most people carry a phone charger with them because they don’t want to be without power in their phone. Well, in the same way you can keep your spirit plugged into God, so that you are constantly charged up spiritually. 

All through the day, we constantly check the power level of our phone. We  know when it is at 50%, 30% or 10%. Likewise, as we operate through the day, we should be able to know when we are becoming spiritual low through disconnection from God’s Spirit. At those times we need to plug back in through prayer, praise and listening to God’s Word. 

When we maintain such unbroken connection with The Spirit, we can be sure of success daily, as He guides us on what to do. God is closer than the air we breathe. As we bless The Lord at all times and His praise is continually on our lips, then we can be sure of His divine  guidance into our high places in life. 
PRAYER: Father please help me to maintain an unbroken connection to Your Spirit, wherever I go. Grant me the grace for a continual flow of prayer, praise and hearing of Your Word, so that I can be divinely guided by Your Spirit daily in Jesus Name.  

QUOTE : 

To get into the next level of your life, God will always give a specific instruction. – WORDBITE 222. 

[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK ESTABLISHED BY THE WORD]