MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 17 January 2019 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Beware Of Mammon
TOPIC: Beware Of Mammon (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 17 January 2019)
FIRE SCRIPTURE: John 12:1-8
Bible In One Year: Genesis 39-40; Matthew 12:1-23
MEMORY VERSE: “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” – 1 Timothy 6:10
The MESSAGE:
Even before Judas betrayed Jesus, his lifestyle and ways had shown he was recalcitrant and unChrist-like. Jesus knew that Judas’ ways were not right and that Judas would betray Him. He discerned Judas’ double-faced and hypocritical attitude in John 12. Mary, Lazarus’ sister had taken a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed Jesus’ feet, wiped His feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But Judas said, “why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarius and given to the poor. This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it”.
Though he followed Jesus like other disciples, listened to His teachings and saw His exemplary character like others, Judas never imbibed nor imitate Jesus in any way. His motives were ulterior and bad, his ways were not right and his lifestyle was ungodly. He gave place to the devil and chose to be a child of perdition. Jesus pronounced woe on Judas and said it was better that he was not born. Isn’t it a surprise that someone with a terrible character like Judas’ will be found among Jesus’ disciples? Jesus’ words to the Father in John 17:12 explains this: :While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled”. Judas, by his choice, became a child of perdition.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Beware of the lure and trap of mammon. Judas fell into the trap of mammon and lost his ministry, status and destiny as a disciple or apostle of Jesus. Little foxes spoil the vine. As Christians, the Bible admonishes us to always examine our ways and be sure we are in faith. If Judas had been examining his ways, perhaps he would have retraced his steps. From stealing the common purse in his custody, he graduated to selling his Master for 30 pieces of silver. The love of money, indeed, is the root of all evil. The things human beings who are slaves to mammon have done and are still doing to get money inordinately are unprofitable. Judas made a wrong choice. He gave place to the devil and ruined his career and destiny. Another man took his office. This will not be your portion, in the name of Jesus.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING. IT WILL BUY YOU BED BUT WILL NOT GET YOU SLEEP.
PROPHETIC WORD:
Money will not take the place of God in your life and lead you to hell.
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
- Spirit of mammon, my life is not your candidate, die, in the name of Jesus.
- I overcome the lure and trap of mammon, in the name of Jesus.
- No one shall pluck me out of the hand of the Lord, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING - I will not lose my life and ministry to mammon, in the name of Jesus.
- I disconnect my life and destiny from the hold of mammon, in the name of Jesus.
- Father, I will not betray you for filthy lucre, in the name of Jesus.
- I refuse to be a spiritual misfit and I will not disappoint the Lord, in the name of Jesus.
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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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