Mathew 5: 6
‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.
DAILY READING Mark 7:1-13; 2 Samuel 17; Daniel 11:1-19
The one thing we must seek on a daily basis, is the face of God.

And when we seek Him and find Him, there is a reward, and our expectations are not cut off.

Psalm 34:10 says ‘The young lions lack and suffer hunger; but those who Seek The LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Indeed God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. And one man that diligently sought the face of God until he found Him, was John G lake.
Lake was a man mightily used of God in the 20th century. John G. Lake was known as God’s “Apostle to Africa”. In 1908, God sent him to Africa, where his anointed miracle ministry resulted in an extensive and powerful missionary movement in the continent.   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.
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 an intimacy and a consciousness of God. Speaking in his book, ‘John G. Lake – Apostle to Africa’,  Lake says ” 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’

His hunger was such that sometimes when he left his office in Chicago, and walked down the street, his soul would break out, and he would cry out, ‘Oh God!’ Often people in the street would stop and look at him, and wonder if he was alright. He led 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.

And John G Lake would go on to become one of the greatest men of God that ever walked the earth.

Though many saw and marveled at the great glory upon his life, few knew the story of his desperate hunger and desire for God that brought the eruption of 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. It is a law of the spirit that only the hungry gets filled. 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 to be a sign and wonder to your world. You are not at all to live an ordinary or mediocre 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. It is through the greatness of the manifestation of the power of God that we can indeed rule. Power is the scepter of our rule, but prayer is the price.

We must come to that place where we are totally hungry for God and diligently seek His face. Seeking God first has to be the priority. The place of God in your heart determines your placing upon the earth. You cannot make God first, and become the last. If you will let Him get the throne of your heart, He will secure a throne for you on the earth. All we need is to seek first the kingdom, and every other thing will fall into place.

Therefore enough of hanging around shallow waters, enough of spiritual laziness. Without any doubt, spiritual laziness is a robber of destiny. Proverbs 24:30-34, describes the field of a lazy man and those who love to sleep.

To arrive at our glorious destiny, we must accept full spiritual responsibility. There are no short cuts to success. We must pay the price of seeking God with all our heart until we find Him and He comes and turns away our captivity.

In this season we must be willing to pay whatever price it takes to be on fire for God. Lev 6:13 says the fire shall ever be burning upon the altar. To ensure the fire keeps burning we must keep loading our heart with The Word. Because where no wood is the fire goes out. But the more we are filled with The Word, the more we will be on fire.
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.
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The study of The Word will keep  shame and disgrace far from you.

[ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK FAITH CLASSICS]