Mathew 5: 6 ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled’

DAILY READING : Romans 9:30-10:21; 1 Samuel 19; Psalm 64

John G. Lake was known as God’s “Apostle to Africa”. In 1908, God sent him to South Africa, where his anointed miracle ministry resulted in an extensive and powerful missionary movement in the African continent. Indeed he was among the greatest preachers mightily used of God in the 20th century.

However before entering into full time ministry and recording these amazing manifestations of God’s power, Lake was a businessman who was simply hungry for God. The response of his soul to the Spirit was an intense longing for consciousness of God’s Presence. Speaking in his book, ‘John G. Lake – Apostle to Africa’, Lake wrote ”I believe I was the hungriest man for God that ever lived. My soul was demanding a greater entrance into God, His love, Presence, and Power’

As a business man, he set aside certain hours of the day that he dedicated to God, as times of meditation, and prayer. While he went about his daily affair his spirit remained in constant communion with God through a ceaseless flow of prayer.

With such desperation and hunger, it was not long before God responded and began to move mightily in his life, manifesting great miracles and wonders through his ministry. He spent five history-making years in South Africa, engaged in a ministry which could be likened to that of the early Church, in its manifestations of miracles, signs and wonders. Upon his return to America, Lake established a ministry in Spokane, Washington which resulted in no less than 100,000 astounding miracles of healing within the space of five or six years. He then established a similar work in Portland, Oregon, where there were also mighty eruptions of God’s power.

Indeed it is when we seek, that we find. God is committed to filling those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. To encounter God’s power we must be hungry for it.

Mathew 5: 6 says ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.’

Every prize demands a price, and progress in life calls for a pressing in. There are wonderful things to be had in the Spirit, but we must press in to where they are. The treasures of life are never on the surface but in the depths. There are mighty manifestations of power and glory, miracles signs and wonders, awaiting us when we pay the price to press into the depths.

As a child of God, you are meant to live an amazing life. You are the light of your world, a city set on a hill that cannot be hid. Men are meant to look up to you. They are meant to come to you for answers and solutions, you are meant to rule in the midst of them and be the head and never the tail.

All these will come into manifestation when we pay the price, and press into the depth where the power of God is. We must come to that place where we are totally hungry for God and diligently seek His face. The place of God in our heart determines our placing upon the earth.
To be mightily used of God in this end times, we must accept full spiritual responsibility. Especially as we step out to preach the Gospel in this season, we must be willing to pay whatever price it takes to be on fire for God. We cannot give what we do not have, hence we need to be on fire first, before the hearts of men can be ignited by the Gospel we preach.
Lev 6:13 says the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar, it shall never go out.

To ensure the fire keeps burning on the altar of our hearts, we must constantly feed on God’s Word. Because where no wood is the fire goes out. But the more we are filled with the wood of the Word, the more we will be on fire and greatly win souls for Christ.

PRAYER:

Lord, Please help me to pay whatever price is required of me to seek Your face diligently, for I know that when I seek You and find You, there shall be a reward and my expectations shall not be cut off in Jesus Name.

QUOTE

The study of The Word will keep shame and disgrace far from you