Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 7 May 2026 By Dr. D.K. Olukoya – How To Pray In Times Of Crisis (3)
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TOPIC – How To Pray In Times Of Crisis (3) (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Devotional 7 May 2026)
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Chronicles 12, 2 Chronicles 13, 2 Chronicles 15, Mark 15, Mark 16.
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Jonah 2:1-10 (KJV)
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
MEMORY VERSE: Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. – Psalm 56:1 (KJV)
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: When you are connected to the Eternal Source, your strength will be inexhaustible.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: My Father, my Father, my Father, let it be known that You are my God, in Jesus’ Name.
MFM Devotional For Today 2026 MESSAGE:
Today, we shall round off the topic “How to Pray in Times of Crisis.” Crisis time is not a palatable period. It is a time when man gets to his wits end and is desperate for solution, so that he can get out of the problem. The Fire Scripture for today talks about the prayer Jonah prayed when he entered into the belly of the fish. God sent him on assignment to Nineveh, but he decided to go to Tarshish. He wanted to run away from the assignment that God gave him, because the people of Nineveh were Israel’s enemies. He did not want God to have mercy upon them. He said he knew that God was a merciful God and if the people repented, God would forgive them and they would not pay for their sins against Israel. That was why he ran towards Tarshish. But there is no one that can escape from God. In Psalm 139:7 David asked “Wither shall I go from thy spirit?” There was nowhere Jonah could have escaped to that God would not have gotten him?
Also Read: MFM Devotional 6 May 2026 – How To Pray In Times Of Crisis (2)
Dearly Beloved, Jonah prayed very desperate prayers from the belly of the fish after the sailors threw him inside the sea. Right from the first verse of chapter 2 of the book of Jonah, his desperate prayer started. Jonah cried out by reason of his affliction unto the Lord, Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days. He did three days prayer and fasting, begging God to reconsider and forgive him.
Someone who is in crisis will go on 21 days prayer and fasting so that he can get out of the crisis. If he has to go on multiple days of vigil, he will do it, even if he has not done vigil all his life.
A man had problems for about 15 years and still he said he had never fasted all his life, anytime he was to fast, by 11am he would have gone to break his fast.
But when the problem lingered, he had to reconsider his stand and change his attitude.
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
- My Father, help me, I am in trouble; deliver me, in the Name of Jesus.
- Powers challenging God in my life, be disgraced, in the Name of Jesus.
- Stoppers and blockers of my father’s house, hear the Word of the Lord; die, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
- Let God arise and let my problems pack and go, in the Name of Jesus.
- Every good thing forcefully stolen from me, I recover it by fire, in the Name of Jesus.
- Thou source of my crisis, dry up, in the Name of Jesus.
- Any power backing up my problems, die, in the Name of Jesus.
MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)
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