Daniel Olukoya

MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 2 April 2019 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Awake From Your Spiritual Slumber

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TOPIC: Awake From Your Spiritual Slumber (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 2 April 2019)

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Judges 16-18; Luke 7:1-30

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Revelation 3:1-6

MEMORY VERSE: “Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.” – Luke 12:37

The MESSAGE:

The message to Sardis is a warning to all great churches and believers that are living on past glory. All of the church’s man-made programs can never bring life beyond keeping empty believers busy and deceptively excited. The church is a spiritual body which was born when the Spirit of God descended on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2), and its life comes from the Spirit. When the Spirit is grieved, the church begins to lose life and power. When sin is confessed and church members get right with God and with each other, then the Spirit infuses new life and there is a great revival!

The church that suffers no opposition or persecution is likely to be complacent. The church in our study today would have been better off had there been some suffering, for it had grown comfortable and content and was living on its past reputation. There was reputation without reality, form without force. Like the city itself, the church at Sardis glorified in past splendour, but ignored present decay. Unknown to them was the fact that what they did have was about to die because the believers had gone to sleep. It is when the church leaders and members get accustomed to their blessings and complacent about their ministry that the enemy finds his way in. Sometimes it is a pastor’s fault that a church is dying, and the Lord of the church must remove the star and put another in his place.

Like most of our present day churches, the assembly in Sardis was not aggressive in its witness to the city. There was no persecution because there was no invasion of the enemy’s territory. No friction usually means no motion! The unsaved in Sardis saw the church as a respectable group of people who were neither dangerous nor desirable. They were decent people with a dying witness and a decaying ministry. What a pity!

The clarion call of the Lord is for the church to be watchful and wake up. The Lord admonished them to strengthen what remained and not to give up because the church was weak. Where there is life, there is hope! The first step toward renewal in a dying church is honest awareness that something is wrong. When an organism is alive, there is growth, repair, reproduction, and power; if these elements are lacking in a church, then that church is either dying or already dead.

The warning here is that we should not grow comfortable in our churches, lest we find ourselves slowly dying. The encouragement is that no church is beyond hope as long as there is a remnant in it, willing to strengthen the things that remain. Stand up today, make a difference, and be among the unpolluted remnant that will strengthen the church and bring about the much needed revival. The Lord is waiting for your prompt action. Do not disappoint Him. May His grace be mighty upon your life and ministry, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
REVIVAL IS NOT JUST AN EMOTIONAL TOUCH, IT’S A COMPLETE TAKEOVER!

PROPHETIC WORD:
The Lord will revive every dead thing in your life.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

  1. Lord, use me as an agent of revival in Your church, in the name of Jesus.
  2. Spiritual complacency, depart from the Church of God by fire, in the name of Jesus.
  3. Blood of Jesus, wash our Church from every spiritual pollution, in the name of Jesus.
    EVENING
  4. Power to witness with fresh anointing, fall upon me now, in the name of Jesus.
  5. Holy Spirit, ignite the Church with Your fire, in the name of Jesus.
  6. Any good thing that is about to die in me, blood of Jesus, revive it now, in the name of Jesus.
  7. Power of the world over the Church of God, break by the power in the blood of Jesus, 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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