Wednesday, 2nd December, 2020.
Bible Reading: 1 John 2: 15-17, Isaiah 40: 29-31
Memory Verse: But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind. Isaiah 40:31 (MSG)
Gospel Musician, Frank Edward is a testimony of a young man who found grace and mercy from Jehovah. Let’s learn what triggered this great dimension of the grace of God in his life. His first album, “The definition” sold so much. He rejected the one million naira honorarium. His mother advised him to give it back to God as his first fruit offering. Then God showed up. His record company decided to shoot a video for him in South Africa.
There, some promoters came to lure him. “Remove Jesus from your album and replace it with God. Such will make you more marketable even as we take you round the world”, they suggested to him. He bluntly rejected the offer. May you not go where Jesus cannot take you. Say a big amen. Please don’t compromise your faith for money, fame or any mundane and perishable thing of this world. Take note: When God is about to send a man or woman who will lift up your head, usually there is a hurdle to jump, something to let go, a sacrifice or pain to endure.
It is called the price of your lifting. If you pass this test, then comes the right person, then comes the right door. Something happened when he released his second album. A woman was sent by God to search everywhere for him after listening to his songs. On first meeting, she gave him just $10,000. Just $10,000! Much later, he was given a well-furnished house in a high brow area in Lagos free of charge. What a mighty God we serve. Isn’t Frank Edwards traveling all over the world today?
This generation needs to learn patience with God and with their destiny time. The race is never to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Where God has destined you to get to, you will surely get there. Only wait on Him. One major disaster that can happen to a man is to enter into his future before God. What a colossal waste. Stop this rush mentality. Ponzi scheme will not help you. Gambling will not do you any good either. Yahoo yahoo will one day put you behind the bars. Do due diligence.
Walk with God and your destiny timing in your pilgrimage on earth. Let’s round off with this: “My life is a storybook of God’s manifestation. I am a product of my worship. It’s not by singing, it’s by grace. I am living in a house I didn’t pay one naira for. Do you know what it means for someone to finish building a house and give it to you? You know, sometimes I come out of my house, I look around, I ask myself “how old are you?”… – Frank Edwards.
Quote: It is wisdom to live one day at a time.
Prophetic Decree: Where God cannot lift you, may you never get there, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Author of time and season, we thank You.
2. Lord Jesus please forgive me of all the hasty things I have done in order to get rich quick, in Jesus name.
3. I come against every spirit of impatience in my life, in Jesus name.
4. I cast out the spirit of worldliness in the name of Jesus.
5. Inordinate affection for money, die, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Corinthians 12-14