1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ‘ Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit’

DAILY READING; • Revelation 11; Esther 1; Psalm 105:1-25

From a young age, Don Moen loved the Lord and loved to worship Him. While he was a student at Oral Roberts University in the early ’70s, Don joined a musical group called ‘Living Sound’ which toured several countries with evangelist Terry Law. Don Moen was hired as a violinist, trombonist and guitarist with the band.
Being very shy, Don’s comfort zone was playing in the background where no one would see him. Don couldn’t even speak in front of a few people without getting nervous. He had failed his speech class at Oral Roberts University, because he was too afraid to get up in front of 15 people to give a speech.
So for the 15 years, Don toured with the Living Sound band, he preferred playing an instrument in the background while someone else was in the spotlight singing.
But when he was 32 years old in 1982, Don began to seek God and pray for a deeper purpose in his life. During this time, one night he was awakened from a deep sleep at 3:00 a.m, and clearly heard a voice that said, “Get up and turn in your Bible to Psalm 40:3.”
That was all he heard, and when he read that Scripture, the message in Psalm 40:3 was very clear: “I have put a new song in your mouth; a song of praise to our God. Many will see it and fear and put their trust in the Lord.”
Something he couldn’t explain happened to him spiritually that night as he meditated on that Scripture. It would become one of the most important prophetic words that began to guide his entire career from then on. Before then he had never led worship and had no desire to get out of his comfort zone of being in the background of the band. But after the prophetic word from Psalm 40:3, things began to change.
Around this time also, he received a letter from his sister in law saying she had received a vision from God where “Don was standing in front of thousands of people and leading them into God’s presence and writing songs that soothed the hearts of kings.”
Knowing how embarrassed he felt on stage, Don laughed off this prophesy and thought that there was no way he was going to stand in front of thousands of people and sing.
But as he continued touring with the Living Sound group, Evangelist Terry Law began to give Don a more visible role in their music band to lead in worship before he preached. Don felt grossly inadequate and embarrassed because he couldn’t play the piano well and wasn’t a good singer. But Terry continued to push him out to lead worship.
In 1984, Don was hired to work for Integrity Music. While working with the Christian focused music group, in 1986, Don recorded and released the song “Give Thanks” .
With the release of this song, Don began to receive several invitations to minister and before he knew it, he was leading thousands in worship as his sister-in-law had seen in the vision.
Don’s career soared for the 20 years as he worked with Integrity Music and produced some of the group’s most successful worship albums.
Then in December 2007, he left Integrity Media and formed The Don Moen Company where he has released several soul lifting albums and songs under his own record label.

While Don was content with leading an ordinary life in the background, he did not know he was destined for extraordinary things. But in the place of prayer, God began to give him a glimpse of the great things ahead of him.
Many times, we are oblivious to God’s plan for our lives. While we are so busy pursuing ordinary and mediocre things, God is planning extraordinary things for our future.
It is only when we draw closer to God in prayer and study of His Word that we will begin to get an idea of the great things stored up for us.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 says that God has prepared amazing things for those that love him, but they are only revealed through His Spirit:

The Spirit of God works through the Word to reveal God’s plans to us. As we study the Word it will birth the pictures of faith and possibilities within us. And as we hold on to those inner pictures, they will eventually manifest as our outward reality.
It is God’s plan to turn us into a wonder, but to be correctly positioned to take delivery of this prophetic agenda of greatness, we must fulfill the covenant obligations of building up our faith. We need to go deeper in our relationship with God to experience His great destiny for us.
When we accept the personal responsibility of diligent study of God’s Word, the Spirit will begin to reveal to us the deep things of God and lead us into their speedy manifestations.
Certainly, God’s thoughts for us are bigger and better than anything we could have imagined for ourselves. This is why it is important to take the time to seek Him and receive His revelations.
In this season, as we make the commitment to seek greater faith through diligent study of the Word, we will be seeing amazing manifestations of God’s goodness in ways and manners we could never have fathomed. As we continue to express our love for Him through obedience and worship, surely, He will do in our lives, exceedingly, abundantly, above all we could ever have asked, thought or imagined.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for the grace to constantly sow the seed of Your Word in my heart. As I do, I thank You for the release of the faith to believe You for mighty manifestation of your wonders in my life in Jesus Name. .
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When you apply The Word of God, it will work for you, anywhere and anytime- WORDBITE 222.