E2022_S2E17 - The key to see the Lord

Apostle Joseph Simwela

My daily light - 17 February, 2022

The Key to see the Lord

God is the lifter of men, the healer, deliverer, protector, comforter, merciful, strengthener - he goes where a part of his bearer is needed.

If you want to be strong every day, then appear to be weak each and every day before God - the moment he sees you strong, he will return.

God is complete so he manifest where incompleteness is expressed - the key to meet God is Brokenness each and every day.

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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

*Matthew 5:3 NKJV*

If you want to be more each and every day, you must recognize who is more and appear before him with less.

Poor in Spirit means great desire to seeking God - having reasons each day to seek God the more.

Poor in Spirit means a broken heart - seeking God by considering self as a sinner

One has to consider self as a sinner or incomplete.

David's sacrifice to God was his own broken spirit "I have sinned against the Lord"

Isaiah said, am a man of unclean lips. . . .

If you want to be rich each and every day, then recognize the riches of God and appear before him as nobody - having nothing at all, when I am weak, then am strong.

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Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

*II Corinthians 12:10 NKJV*

God wants to manifest in your weakness, He is strength and will only find expression where weakness seem obvious.

The key to see the Lord is not prayer, but the kind of prayer that comes out of you - you can pray 6 hrs. and never meet God.

The Pharisee and the tax collector both went to pray, but only one met God.

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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’

*Luke 18:11-12 NKJV*

God is the lifter of men, the blesser and righteous - the moment he sees you equal with him, he returns. He is fullness and find expression where there is insufficiency. Be humble in a place of prayer.

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“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

*Luke 18:13-14 NIV*

I repeat, be humble in a place of prayer - be on your knees if being lifted up is all you need.

Render yourself wanting in a place of prayer.

If you want to meet God each and every day, then be insufficient each and every day - nothing should satisfy you at all, have a permanent disorder all your life.

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Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”

*Genesis 32:25-26 NKJV*

The only qualification and audacity prompting Jacob to seek a blessing was his disordered hip.

God will deliberately render you wanting, in need and helpless - in an effort of blessing your life, you must recognize a place of contact in your life to meet God.

It was at Penuel where Jacob saw God face to face - recognize your own Penuel within your life, an opportunity to humble yourself and show Brokenness.

Peter said, go away from me Lord - for am a sinful person - humbleness.

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When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

*Luke 5:8 NKJV*

You need not to voice out or go in the Media to proclaim your encounter with Jesus - we know you have truly encountered Jesus by the humbleness he imparts in you, having the attitude of Jesus.

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Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

*Philippians 2:6-11 NIV*

When you want to be blessed and be remembered, disqualify yourself - be a slave, a servant.

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“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’

*Luke 15:17-19 NIV*

Brokenness qualifies you for greatness

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But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

*Luke 15:29-30 NIV*

The key to receive from God is not prayer, is not your good services - BLOCKENESS.

*May the good Lord grant you the grace to deny yourself in everything, in Jesus name!*