Monday, 14th April, 2025
Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 11: 1-4, Proverbs 7: 8-9
Memory Verse: Do not slack in your faithfulness and hard work. Let your spirit be on fire, bubbling up and boiling over, as you serve the Lord. Romans 12:11 (MSG)
Purify Your Mind Series (Part 2) by Joe Kirby: Day 21 Devotional (http://bible.com/r/ASC) says: “The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands. The saying is true: ‘The Devil makes work for idle hands.’ Here we see King David neglecting his duties as king. He was supposed to be battling; instead, he was browsing, wandering aimlessly on the palace roof.
As we’ve already seen, it was here he saw Bathsheba bathing, and his lust for her was ignited. I do believe lust and laziness go hand in hand. Those with no project to work on, no goals to strive for, who stay up all night playing video games and only get up at 10 a.m., are often the same ones who live in habitual sexual sin.
I’ve noticed in my own life that when I take a day off and just lie awake in bed in the morning, temptations start to enter my mind. When I realize what’s happening, I jump up and set my mind to a task—and suddenly the thoughts disappear.
Don’t give Satan a foothold. Temptation is inevitable for the believer, but if we live a lazy lifestyle we are inviting a beating from Beelzebub. Apparently, experts tell us that exercising to the point of exhaustion is scientifically proven to help overcome a pornography addiction. That makes sense, because
God created our bodies to labour in a field, to be physical, and to exert energy. The human body contains sixty thousand miles of blood vessels; that means they could wrap around the earth two-and-a-half times. These blood vessels were designed to work, pumping oxygen through the body (Joseph Castro, “11 Surprising Facts About the Circulatory System,” Live Science).
But many of us spend our days sitting at a desk, slumped in a chair. So perhaps a very practical tip for you today is to integrate some serious exercise into your routine. It will keep your mind and body busy; besides, your doctor may thank me for it!
“What does your night time routine look like? A very practical way to quit any addiction is to radically change the rut you’ve been living in for years and to transform your routine. If you stay up late watching things you shouldn’t, would you be willing to go to bed earlier and rise earlier, as a way of disrupting these sinful habits?
The average pornography addict wastes ten hours a week watching wrong images on the Internet. Imagine if you took those ten hours from late at night and converted them into ten productive hours in the morning—you could start a new project, read a Christian book, or go to the gym.
Quote: Temptation is inevitable for the believer, but if we live a lazy lifestyle we are inviting a beating from Beelzebub
Prophetic Decree: I bind and cast out the spirit of idleness and laziness, in Jesus name
Prayer Focus
1. O Lord, please deliver me from negative distractions. May I not be browsing pornographic contents when I am meant to be at the battle field of destiny.
2. Today, I receive a baptism of my destiny dreams and divine purpose, in Jesus name.
3. Holy Spirit, please keep my mind productively busy. Help me to occupy till Jesus comes, in Jesus name.
4. Altars of my father’s house fighting the sanity of my mind, catch fire, in Jesus name.
5. Strange children and unfriendly friends from the pit of hell sent to corrupt my destiny, you shall not locate me, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 21-24
