Book review: December 2013.

DECEMBER BOOK REVIEW:   With                     The TrailBLAZER.

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“UNDERSTANDING DIVINE DIRECTION”

Bishop David .O. Oyedepo.

December is a word which also sounds like ‘Descend-er’. The careless ones have indeed been descending.

When it’s the season of the ember months, the forces of darkness release an evil spirit of relax, rest and relief. This is so, for many people to lose guard of their destiny. That’s why many failed this year too, because they refused to get up when the going was down last year December.

The life we live is like a relay race, with phases of 100m track. When a relay athlete gets to the next athlete to run the next lap of the race, he stretches out his baton to the relay athlete ahead, who stretches out his hand too to receive.

No matter how swift an athlete can be, if he does not have a baton, he can’t have the prize for the race, even if he does breast the tape. The Bible says that athletes run according to the rules. Rules are not meant to rule over us but they are meant to guide us under the rulership of God the Father, in Christ Jesus dwelling inside of us as the Holy-Spirit.

This is true but sad! 2013 was a disqualified race for many, why? Because they didn’t receive “the baton” in 2012. There are instructions which we must hold onto, by which destruction will stay clear of our path and distinction will be our trade-mark in 2014.

There is a WORD for all your WAYS in 2014. There is a VISION, a DREAM, a particular PURPOSE in God’s mind that He desires to bring to pass in you, for you and through you, in 2014 but when you’re not AVAILABLE, He too does not avail you His ability. A clenched fist is a closed future. A closed heart is a collapsed hope.

Open the hand of your heart, to receive the divine baton. Heavenly baton which will prep you in December 2013 for 2014.

2014 has been described as a year of the uncommon. A year of the unprecedented. From the onset, it has been clear. We’ve experienced 1 – 1 - 2001, 2 – 2 - 2002, 3 – 3 – 2003, 4 – 4 – 2004, 5 – 5 – 2005, 6 – 6 – 2006, 7 – 7 – 2007, 8 – 8 – 2008, 9 – 9 – 2009, 10 – 10 – 2010, 11 – 11 – 2011, 12 – 12 – 2013. But we can’t didn’t experience 13 – 13 – 2013 nor can we have 14 – 14 – 2014. Thus, like 2013 has been different, 2014 will be much more different. Are you prepared?

Here at HISpirational, by the divine guidance of the Holy-Spirit, we are committed to giving you seasonal understanding for life-time impacts. In preparation for 2014, the Lord led us to a time-less piece of his mind: ‘Understanding Divine Direction’ which came to be a master-piece through his servant: Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo.

The Lord is particular about our journey in 2014. So, he instructed us to review this book, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom as we go through the month of December, and you can begin to locate God-ordained directions for your steps in 2014.

Get into 2014 with the mind of a “More Than a Conqueror.” The time for the habit of entering a New Year with an abandoned sense of responsibility for your destiny, is over. God has gained grounds for you, but you need to stand on them.

Since, we became gods, we shared responsibility with God for the outcome and success of our destiny. That is why our FAITH in the WORD of GOD must meet our WORKS to birth WONDERS. Works is simply waiting and acting out some instructions as well as steps to attaining a higher purpose of God for us.

Understanding Divine Direction was published in 1998 and reprinted 2012. It was published by Dominion Publishing House. It is a pocket-sized master-piece. It has 8 chapters as well an introduction.

In this book, Dr. David .O. Oyedepo prescribes a scriptural path for sweat-less triumph in life: “One of the greatest tragedies that can happen to a man is to lack knowledge of where he is going and how to get there. You must pay a price for every wrong step you take.” He wrote. “Conversely, every right step in life guarantees profit.”

In this book, your need for knowing the steps to take in life, especially this coming year 2014 will be fully satisfied. Open your heart and receive this baton of understanding.

The book in its first page states the commission of the ministry, “The hour has come to liberate the World from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching of the Word of Faith; and I am sending you to undertake this task.” Halleluyah.

“Some-time ago” Dr. David Oyedepo began. “I met a man whom I considered to be a highly anointed man of God. As we were talking, he said to me, “I took a wrong step in 1981. Since then, my life and ministry went down.” After we parted ways, his words kept reverberating in my mind – a wrong step taken in 1982 and he is still paying the price today.”

Proverbs 14:12 says “There is way that seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Proverbs 16:25 says too “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Wait a minute! Did you skip the second verse? Did you notice the repetition? Yes! It was repeated to make a reverberating statement that even “right” ways can lead to the “ends” of “death.” It is not all that glitters that is gold; it is not all that shines that is silver, neither is it all that’s bright that is bronze, thus, the necessity for a book like this. In 2014, many of the life-changing or turning point decisions will be based on assessment, and not matter how anointed or tongue-speaking you may be, care and caution need be exercised at some junctions because even Samuel, the greatest prophet in Israel that ever lived, “looked at the ‘outside’” of God’s purpose. It took a timely interruption to prevent an “anointingbomination”. The voice of the Spirit is also treated in this book as one of the ways of locating God’s direction.

Chapter 1 of the book discusses “The Reality of Divine Plan.” Chapter 2 teaches the ‘how’ to “Discover God’s plan.” Chapter 3 engages our mind in answers to the question “What is Direction?” and Chapter 4 follows with clear-cut compass to “Locating God’s Direction.” Chapter 5 whets the appetite of our spirit-man with the “Benefits of Direction.” Chapter 7 opens the gates of light on how we can have “Access to the Voice of God.” And Chapter 8, speaks with an authority of a teacher, charging the students to “RISE UP EARLY” to put into practice all that they’ve learnt.

Isaiah 55:8 says “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”  

‘The TrailBLAZER’, Opeoluwa Emmanuel SONUGA, is an upcoming worldwide innovation consultant, speaker and writer. He is the President of HISpirational, an International fast developing Kingdom Media Organisation founded on job32:8.  You can reach him on 0816597640, sonugae@yahoo.com