MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 20 January 2019 By Dr. D.K Olukoya – Strong Man
TOPIC: Strong Man (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Daily Devotional 20 January 2019)
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 6:9-12
Bible In One Year: Genesis 49-50; Matthew 13:31-58
MEMORY VERSE: “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” – 1 Peter 2:11
The MESSAGE:
It is a pity that Christians suffer needless pains and undergo ordeals that are not supposed to be their lot. Spiritual laziness is at the root of these unfortunate challenge many Christians face. It is terrible to know what to do but refuse to do it. Some Christians get the prompting of the Holy Spirit to fast in order to terminate the problem in their lives and defeat the strongman assigned against them, but they are too lazy to fast.
Laziness entails lack of will power to do what will give your desired solution (victory, success, progress, blessing, etc.). Many had gone for counselling and the pastor told them, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, to do three days vigil and pray specific prayers that should provoke heaven’s intervention in their affair. Such people did one day and abandoned the exercise. Later, they blamed God and the pastor for their woes. Spiritual laziness is the bane of many Christians. Though God has many wonderful promises for His children, there are parts for His children to play in actualising and appropriating those promises. It is the believer’s responsibility to have and exercise faith in God’s promises. He needs to study his Bible to familiarise himself with those promises, then believe them, confess them and claim them. If he is too lazy to do all these (as many Christians are today), his life will not reflect the glory of God and the abundant life the Lord promised as it ought to.
Beloved, examine yourself today. Are you spiritually lazy? What are the symptoms of spiritual laziness? Let us examine some of them. One of the symptom of spiritual laziness is the neglect of personal devotions and time spent in prayer. Spiritual laziness has set in whenever you begin to skip your Quite Time, either deliberately or due to forgetfulness. Spiritual laziness has crept in when you don’t look forward to that time alone with God any longer and when fasting and prayer have become great burden to you. Do you spend quality time in prayer with God or you just do it hurriedly? Spiritual laziness takes away the power to tarry before the Lord in prayer and intercession from people who are undiscerning. Moses fasted for forty days and forty nights. Jesus did for the same period. They both got awesome rewards: lives and ministries that were phenomenal. Elijah and Daniel too engaged in marathon fast. Their lives and ministries were glorious.
The spiritually lazy believer will ignore opportunities to share the gospel and win souls for Christ. Spiritual laziness will birth powerlessness and spiritual drought. It will also turn many who should be champions on fire for God to preys and casualties in the battlefield of life. Beloved, if we must populate heaven and depopulate hell as well as make the kingdom of the world that of God and His Christ, we must kick spiritual laziness out of our lives.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
IF YOU ARE TOO LAZY TO PLOW, DON’ T EXPECT A HARVEST.
PROPHETIC WORD:
I decree upon your life, that your mouth shall not become your source of ruin.
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
- I overcome spiritual laziness, in the name of Jesus.
- I will not be slothful in business. I shall be fervent in spirit, trusting the Lord, in the name of Jesus.
- I reject spiritual drought and dryness, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING - Powerlessness shall not be my lot, in the name of Jesus.
- I kick spiritual laziness out of my life, in the name of Jesus.
- Father, give me an ever-increasing grace and strength to serve You all the days of my life, in the name of Jesus.
- Holy Spirit, refresh me, recharge me and refill me, 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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