My Key to Divine Growth by Pastor Emmanuel S. Olowokere. Feb 7, 2010. Watch photo album of the service
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Sermon Synopsis
I don’t know of anything that positions for blessings as praising or thanksgiving. Whenever you praise, you’re positioned for blessings from God.
True, praise is required of every living as Psalm 150: 6 reveals
“Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.”
However, one would be no more than mistaken to see praise only as that which God requires of every living, as wonderful as that is. Along with praising comes a personal reward: blessings!
It shouldn’t be difficult to see how the praising-blessing connection relates to our prophecy for February: Divine Growth. If praising brings blessings from God, and Divine Growth is God-given, then praising God positions me for Divine Growth.
By Divine Growth, we mean increase, enlargement, expansion, development, escalation, intensification, prosperity, and augmentation that is God-given
Why should “Divine Growth” interest anyone?
Unless you grow you might never possess some resources or rewards. Regardless of how much love a wealthy father has for his 7-year old son, for instance, it would be foolhardy for him to buy the boy a half million dollar Bentley so he could drive. He might be sending the poor boy and perhaps himself to their early grave. But have an 18-year old in possession of such a car, and you’d see how on point such a decision may be. The moral? God gives you resources or blessings you’re “old enough” to handle.
To bring this home, Jesus wasn’t casting out demons as a 12-year old even though he was the Son of God. There was a time that became appropriate as Luke 2:51-52 shows:
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man
If Jesus needed to grow in wisdom and stature, you know you need growth too. I’m sure God could have made Jesus the Savior as a child, if growth was unnecessary.
Having come to the understanding of why growth is important, and having seen how praising connects me to blessings and by extension Divine Growth, it becomes imperative then to see and use thanksgiving as an important key to Divine Growth.
Give yourself to thanksgiving and God will continually open doors of blessings unto you.
Have a wonderful, thankful and growthful week in Jesus name. Amen!
