April 18, 2023
Scriptural Text:
Mark 1:35(NKJV)
“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.”
One of the important traits of highly successful persons is their ability to maximize the early hours of the day.
While many today complain of having too little time to pray and study the Word because of their busy schedule, the example of Jesus from our opening text gives us a hint on how that challenge can be resolved. He utilized his morning to fellowship with God.
You too can take advantage of the serenity of the morning to meditate on the Word, and attend to tasks that require utmost focus. Waking up before everyone else does also gives you extra time to attend to important tasks that may be difficult to handle when the hustle and bustle of the day begins.
However, maximizing your morning may require that you retire to bed earlier than you are used to. Ultimately, you would realize that it is more rewarding to start the day early with a fresh mind and outlook, than to stay up late trying frantically to complete your tasks.
Therefore, set a new time for you to get up each day, and determine ahead of time what your first activities for each day will be. As you maximize your morning this way, you will greatly enhance your productivity and improve your quality of life.
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Oh Lord, teach me to utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity, in the name of Jesus.
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The Church in Namibia is growing. Partnership between Churches are still a problem, but there are cases where denominations are starting to work together to reach the Northern parts and isolated areas of Namibia. As with many African countries, syncretism is a reality as many people mix their cultural practices with Christianity.
1. Prayer for the nation: Oh Lord, send forth more laborers into the nation Namibia, so that there will be effective discipleship of new converts, in the name of Jesus.
2. Prayer for the leaders: Oh Lord, cause your fear to rest in the hearts of leaders in Namibia, so that they may lead with integrity and in righteousness, in Jesus name.
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Father, I ask today that there will be peace in Jerusalem and that your purposes be established in that city. Amen
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Dear Father, help the Body of Christ to be perfected in unity, so that the whole world may come to know you, in Jesus name.
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Father in the name of Jesus, we break every hindrance that has put a blockage between us and the people that you are ordained to be saved, in the name of Jesus.
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Edwina
GPC Porthacourt
Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning happens when we maximize the morning doing something that will cause a change and indeed bring the desired joy.
Today’s devotional has greatly opened me up to the truth and reality of mornings but most times we are weak in taking the corresponding actions of the truth we know because it takes diligence and discipline to maximize the morning.
Help me Lord to maximize my morning that my productivity may be enhanced and the quality of my life improved🙏🙏.
Glory to God. What a word. Yet again today’s devotional spoke about bi times. How important to rise up early to start your day will tell how productive you can be. When you rise up early you become more productive and the quality of your life is greatly improved. This cannot be overemphasized for winners and pacesetters. Thank you My Prophet
Mamus-Ebeleju
Bradford, UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you Lord
Lord help me to be consistent rising and seeking you early
“it is more rewarding to start the day early with a fresh mind and outlook, than to stay up late trying frantically to complete your tasks.”
This is quite true, something I’ve come to realize personally. Setting daily goals, with proper time management makes it all worth it. Thank You Lord for this word 🙏🏾
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The only way you can be close to God is when you spend time with Him. We have to reset our timetable to be able to meet up.
Chinaza Clinton from warri Delta State 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
Maximizing my morning has been really helpful to me, it will help one achieve a lot for the rest of the day and as such increase productivity in one’s live.
I am grateful for this piece… my early mornings will be maximized accordingly… Glory to GodMiracle, GPC Warri
Thankyou Lord for this devotional.
Waking up in the early mornings is not an easy thing to do at all but I believe with the help of the Holy Spirit, conviction and discipline, we’ll be able to fully maximise our mornings just like Jesus did.
GPC Liverpool 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Literally those who say they can’t connect to pray with the prophet early in the morning just don’t prioritize and maximize their morning. Today’s devotional is key to the excuses of I can’t connect early or I wake up late so not able to pray the promises.
We can maximize the morning to be successful in life if we put to practice the saying ” Early to bed and early to rise” because you cannot cheat nature. By going to bed early one will be able to get enough sleep and get up early in the morning refreshed, rebooted and positive to begin a new day.
Thank you sir my Prophet.
Uka I Ogelle, LEKKI, Lagos Nigeria.
Thank you my prophet for great wisdom. 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭
Thank you sir for this devotional!
Yet another set of wisdom keys for success in my life.
Maximising mornings is so important. I do notice the difference a well planned morning where I intentionally spend time with God has on the whole of my day compared to when I wake up and rush to my daily affairs. Maximising mornings truly set the tone of the day.
Dear Lord ,help me to wake up early and to maximise the mornings.
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Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time🙏🙏
Oh Lord, teach me to utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity, in the name of Jesus Amen 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾
Maximizing one’s morning is so important, especially if you’re someone with a busy schedule.
Also sleeping on time must not be under emphasized.
These two pointers play a very important role in an active persons life.
May God help us adopt the life coping skills.
Amen!
Lagos, Nigeria
Thank you prophet. I have noticed that I can accomplish twice the normal if I do it in the mornings instead of late night. LAGOS
Morning by morning new mercies you do release. Early hours is the first fruit of ones day and how it is used shows the value one places on time and on life. Our brain revolution is highest be times(early morning). This provides sufficient energy and frequency to get result. I celebrate the love of God for us by giving us betimes.
INNOCENT EKELEME
LAGOS NIGERIA
maximize the early hours of the day. Give you the opportunity to plan your day and yo be proactive with all your daily routine and it enable us to prepare ourself for successful
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‘One of the important traits of highly successful persons is their ability to maximize the early hours of the day.’ This devotional is yet another lesson to learn from. Just like the saying 24hours isn’t enough. Waking earlier than others to start your day is a great way to accomplish a goal. Lord continue to strengthen me to maximize the early hours of the day to achieve my daily priorities🙏
-GPC Cyprus 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾
Thank you lord
Gpc Asaba
Good morning my prophet and my ultimate pillars.
My thoughts were made known to me this morning, exactly what was in my mind was brought to my understanding.
It’s a good thing to have clarity of things to be do in the morning, and focus on them. When a person doesn’t know exactly what to do and doesn’t know how to focus, they just do anything without using their morning well.
Thank you lord for this morning message. Help us to set goals and achieve them in the morning hours.
Ernest, from Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Literally those who say they can’t connect to pray with the prophet early in the morning just don’t prioritize and maximize their morning. Today’s devotional is key to the excuses of I can’t connect early or I wake up late so not able to pray the promises.
Discipline is the hallmark to achieve morning maximisation; hence we must imbibe Discipline with our early hours
Lagos, Nigeria
Lord Jesus my Father, help me to maximize my morning so I can be effective in your Kingdom and to you. Amen.
Waking up early hèlps me personally to reflect upon my bed what i need to achieve and then make a few notes before i start praying. My day can go off track if i dont do this early planning because there is always so much to do per day.
Tee, Lagos
Oh Lord, teach me to utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity, in the name of Jesus.
Lagos NIGERIA
Lord thank you for this revelation
I receive the grace to daily utilize my morning in the name of Jesus Christ
Thank you Heavenly Father for today devotional
Joy Wilkie
Ikeja,Lagos
This is very true, my Prophet
I received 🙏 for strength to get back to using my morning hours positively.
Cyprus 🇨🇾 🇨🇾 🇨🇾
Exactly as was said earlier, staying up late to achieve tasks can be very tasking on its own. It leaves you tired the next day with sleep bags under your eyelids, but going to bed early and rising up before morning makes you more energetic, fresh and healthy!!!!
Th major key is proper planing….thank you again my Prophet for always putting us on check.
Today’s devotional is so profound and instructive! Maximising our Morning will greatly impact on our Productivity in all sphere of life.
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This was just the exact words I needed. This is indeed a confirmation. The Holy Ghost has been speaking to me on how to do so much with my morning. But after morning broadcast, I always go back to sleep. Help Me Lord.
Thank You Holy Spirit ❤️
Thank you Lord for this beautiful insight that we can maximize our morning to enhance productivity during the day… 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾
Thank you Lord🇨🇾
Getting up early and making plans in the morning means having a productive day 🙌🏾. And to be able to succeed, we need to maximize the early hours of the day 💯.
Thank you my Prophet 🙏🏾
– Liverpool 🇬🇧
Morning is a good time to Seek the Lord early, and find your bearing for the day. The stillness of the our can at least guarantee that your thoughts are not polluted. Thank you prophet for sharing more maximizing our morning
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A Great while before day…. That’s one of the best times to actually set the tone of your day. Help us lord to follow your footsteps and. maximise our mornings. Thank you Prophet for this teaching.
Mr PC
Lagos, Nigeria
Chinenye Blessing Nwawuru.
Very true sir. It more productive & profitable to sleep early and wake up early. I discovered this in the course of consistent night prayers and ever since then, it has been so rewarding.
Thank you sir.
CBN Ikeja Lagos.
The efficacy of making utmost use of our mornings can not be over emphasized.
Blesssed from Lagos Nigeria
Rising early helps to maximize time and enhance productivity, especially when spent in fellowship with God, the day starts with a clear and fresh outlook.
I utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity in the name of Jesus.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Maximising your Morning can also mean, planning, preparing, making good investment of your early age so therefore to be assured of great result, rest and fulfillment at old age.From the Bible reading, Issac was surprised when Jacob brought the meal he requested so quick. Issac knew the Capacity of the blessings he was about to give, so therefore his request would not be easy to get.This is to say that because of the Destiny, Result and Purpose God has ordanied us to fulfill, the task would not be easy. That is why in our early age, most of us go through struggles, hard times, misunderstanding, tough learnings and more in order to modify and build our foundation capacity so as to ensure great accomplishment that stands at the late hour of our lives.. GPC CYPRUS 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾
God Bless my prophet.Thank God for today’s devotional.Many of us did not maximize our morning due to lack of planning ourselves.my prayer for you and me is, Oh Lord give us Grace to maximize our morning so as to be fruitful both spiritually, physically, financially etc.In JESUS NAME AMEN
Utilizing your mornings makes it easy for you to be productive and be one step ahead.
Lauretta
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
This was my life…Sleep early and wake up 2-3am with a fresh mind Praying and getting things done effectively..But with the current activities I’m faced with recently I find it difficult to go to bed early :(
Thank you sir, for today’s devotional, I am guilty of sleeping late but still wake up early and found out it’s not good on my health but still indulging in it.
Today’s devotional has really woken me up to do the needful which is changing my sleeping pattern.
Now I decree and declare , that I will prioritize my sleeping time , so help me God.
Lagos Nigeria.
Lord help me maximize my morning. Everything in life comes with a price. Jesus himself showed us through his life how success is achieved. One of it is waking up way before others to accomplish very important tasks.
Thank you so much my prophet sir for this… the early hours of the day are the most productive hours for one’s personal development, be it academic, career wise and of course spiritual life too…that moment your whole mind, body, soul and brain is active and ready to perform whatever task it is given.
I pray to use mine wisely, so help me Lord🙏🙇🏽♀️
Lagos, Nigeria
Help me father to utilize my mornings in the right way in Jesus name
Maximizing your morning may require that you retire to bed earlier than you are used to. Ultimately, you would realize that it is more rewarding to start the day early with a fresh mind and outlook, than to stay up late trying frantically to complete your tasks.
Early to bed, Early to rise.
Lagos, Nigeria.
It gives you clarity of mind,waking up before time
Jesus did so much because he maximized his morning.Morning affords you to have a quiet time,organise your thoughts and be proactive.
Lagos Nigeria
Thank you so much my Prophet, I would endavour to wake up early in the morning in order to complete my task …..God bless you my Prophet for so much wisdom
Thank you Jesus!!!!
Lagos, Nigeria
Thank You Lord for Your Word today 🇨🇾🇨🇾
Oh God
Help us to be mindful of our morning prayer schedules
Waking up early is the hack to achieving all of our daily tasks and activities. In the long term, this translates into helping reach our set goals quickly.
Glory to God 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for your inspirations my prophet
Cornelius from Ojo Lagos
For every challenge we face in our Christian life, Jesus has prepared a way to overcome it. This devotional yet again shows us that maximizing our mornings helps to ensure that we have the time to pray and study the word. Maximizing our morning greatly enhances productivity and improve the quality of life.
– Lagos, Nigeria
One of the things that I love about God is how He has given us the wisdom we need for a successful life in the Bible. In addition Jesus Christ has showed us in practical terms how to live here on earth, and since He overcame the limitations of life and fulfilled the will of the Father here on earth, we can also do same when we follow His footsteps.
The attitude with which you start your morning is very important. When waking up early in the morning to pray, study or work. It prepares the mind, for a better productive day.
Wow….this Is very interesting, and to add, the energy in the morning is always different, it’s more active then
God bless the prophet 🙌
Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Thank you sir for this really insightful message.
Oh Lord, teach me to utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity, in the name of Jesus, Amen.
Thank you sir,
Shalom Ife
Lagos, Nigeria.
Effectively maximizing my mornings buys me more time during the day to achieve more.
Lagos
Lord grant me the understanding and wisdom to know how to maximize my morning all day. What a word to digest on today. Thank you Lord for another day of revelation and word of knowledge.
Lagos • Nigeria
Raising early is good but the question is what do you do at that time. Lagosians are good at getting out early but still productivity is not optimised because they spend the time thinking about how to beat the traffic or worry about the state of the traffic.
The contents of your mind when you wake up early is very important. Do you have a goal, meditate on it that early hours. Do you have a business, plan for it that morning. Whatever you need to achieve think about it in the morning.
Even in the traffic, try to disconnect yourself from your environment and meditate on your goals. Use earpiece to isolate yourself. Play soft music. And zone-in to your goals and task of the day.
Oh Lord, teach me to utilize my morning to the fullest for enhanced productivity, in the name of Jesus.
Thank you my prophet sir for helping me maximize my morning David ikechukwu Lagos Nigeria
Seeking the Lord early in the morning is the best thing we can do for ourselves
Thank you my prophet for today’s devotional…. This is one area of my life that I need to start working on.
I love how our daily devotionals touches every aspect of our lives, I totally agree with this, morning is the most effective and right time to do the necessities, it sharpens one’s day and help plans to be rightly executed.
Thank you Jesus 🇨🇾
Thoughtfully, What we do with the early hours of our time has a way of affecting the rest of the day. So imagine meditating on the word of God, talking to Him, praising His name, thanking Him… imagine all these are what we do with the early hours of the day. One can be positive to have a blissful day. So we should know what we do with that moment so as to prepare a good day for us.
Great word!
Lagos Nigeria
I strongly agree with this topic, for me it make my day more productive because I feel more active when I start early and not just starting early but spending time with God. There is this strength that follows it. Other days that I missed my personal early morning charge, it’s never the same feeling. Thank you sir for this encouragement. God bless you more
This confirms my belief that utilizing your mornings effectively can result in high productivity. I’m privileged to have come across this Amazing Piece.
Good morning to you my prophet sir and to all pillars and believers worldwide
Today’s devotional is just for me. For quite some time now I’ve been struggling with my personal fellowship with God due to my busy day I end up getting tired and too weak to fellowship with God, for a long time now I’ve been struggling with this my prophet. But with today’s devotional I’ve come to know how I can maximize my morning by determine ahead of time what my first activities for each day will be, retiring to bed on time and waking up early enough before others with this I can have my personal fellowship with God without feeling weak
Wow, thank you my prophet sir for this insight I love you sir
It’s really beneficial to be an early morning person especially after being well rested.
Today’s devotional really did justice to this topic and I’m glad I read it.
Lagos Nigeria
Morning speaks tranquility, calm, fresh aura and a blank cheque for the day. Optimising it to one’s development makes a big difference to our lives. My prayer is that God grant us grace and enablement to do these in this ever busy and challenging world.
O. G
Lagos Nigeria
Totally relatable 🙏🙏🙏
Lagos
Hmmmm thank you lord for the words of wisdom today. I choose to utilize my mornings to the fullest. Amen.
Isolation in the midst of chaos will do the trick most times for people who hardly have time to sleep early 🙂
Use of earpiece when driving to work or in a public vehicle, the bathroom or restroom when using it,etc.
But just as my Prophet has said, early risers will achieve more because sleepeers😀 are still sleeping, there’s a bit of quietness. Thinking, studying etc will be smooth .
In this case, priorities should be set to help achieve goals for the day, especially in this part of the country, Lagos state.
Thank You sweet Jesus 😍😍😍😍🙏
Thank you my Prophet sir 🥰
Lagos, Nigeria.
Commanding and taking charge of your morning determines the outcome of the rest of your day. Setting the morning right and planning for the day as at when you wake up grantees a more successful day. Even God visits man in the mornings to show how He values the beginning of every new day Thank You Father for such wonderful words of encouragement and reminder.
Morning are powerful especially when utilise properly. I actually started getting the leading to start waking up earlier to this to things which are very important.
This word today is actually a confirmation and I am not going to waste any more time, I am implementing immediately.
Thank you Sir
Lanre from Ikeja, Lagos
Indeed as humans the best thing to do is to start the day by taking over our responsibility this message came in time.
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Maximizing our time is important, always plan to utilize our early hour of the day to study and focus on the most important task you have for the day.
Thank u sir.
Kelvin ikd lagos
The serenity of the morning to meditate on the Word, and attend to tasks that require utmost focus… The early morning clear mind and spirit is of most important for the word.
Thank you so much prophet for this reminder and powerful teaching.
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Maximiser les activités dans la matinée est une clé et stratégie que beaucoup de païens utilisent. Merci beaucoup Prophète pour cette sagesse que vous nous donnez aujourd’hui. Que par la grâce de Dieu, nous soyons à même d’appliquer cette pépite comme cela se doit. Amen
De GPC CALAVI, BENIN REPUBLIC 🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯🇧🇯
True word. 👌. The best plan is thought of in the early hours of the day. Ideas spring out in your mind when there’s peace and serenity.
Chris from Lagos
Very true, I like this