Thursday, 27th July, 2023
Bible Reading: Psalm 50:5
Memory Verse: Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice. Psalm 50:5 (NIV)
Yesterday you read the testimony of a man who left his immediate family to a neighbouring state at the command of an evil priest pretending to be a mad man for three full years before his deception was uncovered all in order to be rich. If you hear of some of the deep sacrifices in cash or in kind people do in order to be rich, you will know for sure there’s really no short cut to success. Even the grace of God is not the absence of diligence and paying the right sacrifices.
Dear friends, what are you willing to sacrifice legitimately under God to move forward in life? Yahoo plus boys have been known to sacrifice their loved ones. Occultic men sleep in the graveyard. Prostitutes go diabolical to drain their best of clients, etc. Common payment of tithe and offering is a big deal to some Christians. They start comparing the Old testament with the New testament in order to justify their unwillingness to spend and be spent for the kingdom. Just to sit down and write out all the things you can do and allow the Spirit of God to streamline it is a hard sacrifice for some people to do after many years.
You have the mind of Christ hence, you must learn to think your way through some challenges. To go on a 7-day fast breaking daily with only one prayer point on your lips: O Lord, show me the project of my prosperity and the strategy to implementing it, but you have been unable to do that for many years. Friends, in this year of manifestation of sons and daughters of God, make sure you are not your own enemy. God gave some people a commanded instruction to partner with a ministry or one of His servants for many years, yet they haven’t started.
They have forgotten that prophecies are forerunners of blessings. They have forgotten that when God wants to bless a man, He sends an instruction. Ask Father Abraham who left his father’s house. Ask the 12 disciples of Jesus who left all to follow the Master. Hear me: Nothing happens outside sacrifice. Get that right today. There are sacrifices some of us must do daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and/or yearly before you can ever have a big break financially or mount higher in the School of God’s power. Lord, please show us what we must sacrifice in order to move forward by fire.
Nota Bien: By the virtue of divine sacrifice, a simple business (e.g. selling pen) can go global. The issue is not what is sold but the power of God backing up what is sold. This is the mystery of sacrifice!
Quote: The secret of progress is locked up in sacrifice.
Prophetic Decree: Receive ears to hear and grace to obey what you must sacrifice in order to manifest.
Prayer Focus
1. Thank you Father because you are the custodian of divine wisdom and strategy.
2. Holy Spirit, I am tired of this stage, please open my eyes, my ears and my heart to what I must sacrifice to move forward, in Jesus name.
3. I receive a heart to receive, and a will to obey a Word from the Lord.
4. By the virtue of sacrifice, I fly on the Eagle’s wings, in Jesus name.
5. By the virtue of sacrifice, I outshine my peers, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 44-48