CHURCH OF CHRIST-NIGERIA
DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
TOPIC: : WORDS: THE SEEDS OF DESTINY
TEXT: JOHN 1:1 & GENESIS 1:1


MESSAGE:
Once upon a time, a lady in my neighborhood went to the Preacher, crying of facing a divorce from her husband. According to her, "I never offended him. We were just discussing and that was when I jokingly laughed. I didn't appreciate the way my husband was doing things; which was why I said, 'why do you talk like a foolish man?'. And he immediately became angry and called off the marriage of 15years". She concluded.

Wow! That might have sounded conventional, isn't it? That is the flow in our contemporary society today, especially for average people who talk randomly. However, from the woman's statement, anyone can deduce the secret condition of her heart. And a third party or lawyer can imagine or have a clue who the woman truly was. This is because, words were uncontrollably released. And through those words, such secret in her heart was made public.

We live in a society words are randomly thrown against another: fathers abuse sons, mothers engaged daughters on verbal attacks, bosses used them on subjects, teachers disrespect you and a few preachers cannot garnish them appropriately, therefore throwing tantrums and diatribes, plaguing the world into unnecessary confusion.

The bible clearly emphasizes, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. And the Word was God".

Simply: Jesus is the word because through Him, all things were made. What He said became. Through the words of Jesus, the Earth and man were made. So, He is the words. More illustrations are found in Genesis, how God used words to form both living things and non-living things. This already is a proof on how powerful words are.

Philosophically, words are couriers of self-worth. Man, by nature is an end-product of his words; and cannot worth more than his speaking sprees. No man has ever risen beyond the contents of his message. And for member to rise, one needs to operate beyond the physical verbal promotion to declaration and proclamation.

Words have spiritual connotations. Anything released, inorder to be active or work, must first align with spirit. The divine universe connects, activate for physical actualization.

Very unfortunately, many Christians jokingly misuse opportunity to tap the resovior and fountain of divinity, forcing the divine nature to their advantage. This lack of knowledge has made so many to fall ignorantly: People carelessly talk without understanding who they are, what they were made for, and where they are going.

Remember, that Jesus must be the words you speak daily, should you desire to grow productively and meaningfully.

This message is a call for destiny-balancing by changing from norms: our former bad stage to a renewed form of living with the right words. The moment the right words are applied, things begin to happen. The future is guaranteed. The children move and grow according to expectations. Promotion comes without delay. Evil forces scatter and give way for increase.

PRAYER:
Oh, God. We give you all the glory for keeping us inspite offences against another with wrongs words. We have equally killed the destiny of our children. We have affected our lives wrongly. This we might not have known on time. Please Father, realizing our mistakes, may you connect us at this moment to your ever-flowing fountain of wisdom.

May this be so, as we move towards better days from now henceforth.

Amen!