FAITH CAPSULE: Live life to experience His visitation.
Genesis 18
BE SPIRITUAL
To be spiritual is to be prepared to receive from God.
For example, spending time in the word of God continually is taking a position to experience the visitation of God.
God gave His word to Moses for His people, “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.” (Exodus 19:10-11)
The prescription in the word of God was to prepare the Israelites to experience God.
Preparation is to stay away from sin, open self to the word of God, to experience Godly visitation.
ENGAGE EFFECTIVE PRAYER
Engaging in effective prayer is to shut in with God and shut out the world.
The visitation of God is in seeking Him diligently at the prayer altar. Jeremiah 29:13-14 records, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity…”
Without a doubt, prayer is an opening key to assessing the presence of God for His wonders.
WALK IN OBEDIENCE
Living life in obedience to the word of God is to remain and retain the presence of God.
Obedience to God is evidence of faithfulness and not being a vessel of evil agenda.
John 14:21 records, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
Obey God to experience His visitation.
BE SPIRITUALLY SENSITIVE
Spiritually sensitive is to be spiritually awake and not miss out on divine visitation that will position one in the assignment of God.
John 6:63 states, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Spiritual sensitivity to the word is to engage the presence of God in His word.
Abraham could not miss unexpected divine visitation when he received the word of God of the son of promise and the deliverance of Lot from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Genesis 18)
Receiving a message from God is the engaging visitation of God
PRAISING/THANKING GOD
Praising and giving thanks to God is like being pregnant with the wonders of God.
For example, thanksgiving of Jesus always provokes the experience of the presence of God, His visitation.
At the grave of Lazarus, Jesus gave thanks to God, to experience the visitation of God.
John 11:41-43 records the word of Jesus, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
Live for God to experience His visitation.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to encounter His divine visitation.