DAILY SHOWER April 29, 2022 Devotion and Declarations
Prayer before the Word:
_O God, I thank You for today. You have done a marvelous thing to me as always. Please, do not relent in making me to know Your word, in Jesus name, Amen_
TODAY’S TOPIC: Beware of the crocodile Smile
Text: 1 Samuel 18:22-30 (NIV Bible)
"18:22 Then Saul ordered his attendants: 'Speak to David privately and say, 'Look, the king is pleased with you, and his attendants all like you; now become his son-in-law.'"
18:23 They repeated these words to David. But David said, "Do you think it is a small matter to become the king's son-in-law? I'm only a poor man and little known."
18:24 When Saul's servants told him what David had said,
18:25 Saul replied, "Say to David, 'The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.'" Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
18:26 When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the king's son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed,
18:27 David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
18:28 When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
18:29 Saul became still more afraid of him, and he remained his enemy the rest of his days.
18:30 The Philistine commanders continued to go out to battle, and as often as they did, David met with more success than the rest of Saul's officers, and his name became well known."
*SHOWER:*
The crocodile is a predatory aquatic reptile. You may mistake its cry for hunger to smiles due to how it could open it mouth sometimes. This could be likened to the love King Saul had to David. David tried all he could to please him but reverse was the case. He would call him, smiled before him, promised him marriage, then go back to plan death against him. What was the reason? Mere jealousy and envy that God's hand was upon him, and women and others were praising him. Brethren, this is still evident in today's world. So, be careful of company you keep. It is not all people that smiles before your success stories are truly happy. Many are hungry to see you cry or fall. They are unhappy that they see you smile always on social media, face to face and so on. Therefore, you must allow God direct your path else you falled to their hands.
*PRAYER/DECLARATIONS*
O God, make me a willing tool in Your hands. Use me so that I shall not fall to my enemies in Jesus name, Amen!
*1. God has restored my lost fortunes. I shall not lack in wisdom or wealth in tackling the challenges of the world.*
*2. God's favour shall always protect me; morning, day and night.*
*3. I hereby decree and declare God's open doors and direction upon me so that the more the enemies attack me, the more I win, and the more they fail in Jesus name, Amen.*