OCTOBER 09, 2025
Topic: “GOD’S THOUGHTS LEAD TO A MOTIVATED MINDSET“
Text: Haggai 1:12-15.
Memory Verse: “Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off”. – Proverbs 24: 14.
Some people attend big Christian events for the sake of tradition, while some others attend because certain people are coming there. A crowd will often gather whenever there is an assembly where Jesus is present. If you attend such gatherings because of the crowd, just to belong or show that you are current, you may not receive your desired blessings. You need to find what are God’s thoughts concerning your desire before attending such events.
In mark 5:24-34, a crowd gathered around Jesus on his way to Jairus’ house. For many of them, it was enough that they were in the crowd following Jesus, but right there in their midst, there was a woman who was not there because others were there. She was there because she so needed and desired to touch Jesus. She was determined in her heart that if only she could touch the hem of Jesus’ clothes, she would receive her healing. She touched it and she was healed. That is what a motivated mindset can do. The scripture says she “came up behind him in the crowd”. She knew God’s thoughts concerning her situation, and if only she could touch Jesus, she would be healed. She took the steps of faith and she received her healing.
Another person who had a motivated mindset was Zerubbabel. Today’s text, shows that when you have a focused mindset like Zerubbabel, it will stir you up to take action. A motivated mindset fills your heart with the conviction that you are overdue for breakthrough, thereby ushering you into your desired blessings. For instance, when a man who was paralyzed from the neck downwards was brought to Jesus, it was not for flimsy reasons – Mark 2:1-12. His friends felt he was overdue for a breakthrough, so on their arrival, when the door was blocked and there was no feasible way through the window, they created a way through the roof. This is because they knew that if only they could get him to see Jesus, would he be healed. He indeed received his healing when he saw Jesus.
When you know what God is thinking concerning your situation, you will be motivated to take intentional and deliberate steps towards attaining your expectation. They took advantage of what the scriptures says in Matthew 15:26, that healing is for God’s children.
Are you sick? trust Jesus for healing. As a child of God, healing is one of your entitlements.
PRAYER: Holy Spirit, please reveal to me the mind of God concerning my situation (mention the situation or challenge) and guide me on what to do concerning it, in Jesus’ name, Amen.