Tuesday, 30th July, 2024
Bible Reading: 1 kings 17: 8-16
Memory Verse: Remember what it says: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled.” Hebrews 3:15 (NLT)
I came across this piece and I believe it will be a blessing to the body of Christ. Be blessed as you read: A pastor who was praying in his church, received a call from his wife. She told him the kids were all sent home from school for their school fees. She told him she had gone back to the school to beg the management for some more time to pay up, but they had refused. The pastor had some amount of money with him – thirty thousand naira in total. He told his wife to wait at the school while the children returned back to class. “I am coming to pay something. Give the principal the phone let me talk to him.” He instructed.
The phone was handed over to the principal and the pastor told the principal to allow his children attend lessons. The principal agreed. Quickly the pastor picked the amount of money and flagged down a taxi. He announced his destination to the driver and the journey began. While in the taxi, a conversation was raised by a passenger about the situation of the country. The pastor told the passenger that he was on his way to pay his children school fees and he didn’t even have the complete fees yet. The driver complained, “I haven’t even finished feeding my family not to talk of raising school fees. Just yesterday, my wife just delivered of a baby, and I do not have money to pay her hospital bills. My rent would soon be due. I do not know what else to do.” The driver spoke bitterly. Everyone spoke at random about the country’s situation.
While they spoke, the pastor heard a voice clearly. It had come through his right ears. “Give him the money in your hands.” The pastor laughed to himself. The passengers in the car wondered why the pastor was laughing. To the pastor, the message sounded funny, considering the fact that God knew he needed the money to pay his children fees. God couldn’t possibly ask him to give out his children school fees to a man he never knew from Adam. “O devil you are liar.” The pastor muttered to himself and blurted in tongues. Half way to his destination, he heard the voice a second time. This time, it was louder and clearer. “Give him the money in your hands.” The pastor became sad. He knew it was the voice of God. But then, he thought about his children. He thought about the commitment he had made to the principal. He thought about the way his wife will feel when he tells her he had given out his children fees to a random driver he had met in a taxi to solve his problems, while he was still left with his unsolved. Brethren, God still speaks. Have you trained your spirit sufficiently to discern the voice of God in turbulent times? That may be the only visa to your next level.
Quote: As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion – Hebrews 3:15 (ESV)
Prophetic Decree: You will not miss the voice of God, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Voice of healing, voice of deliverance, voice of favour, locate me today, in Jesus name.
2. Voice of divine instructions unto greater glory, locate my destiny, in Jesus name.
3. Voice of resurrection, my life is available, in Jesus name.
4. Voice of divine ownership, locate me today for transgenerational breakthrough, in Jesus name.
5. Voice of wisdom, encounter me today, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 54-58