DAILY SHOWER April 5, 2022 Devotion and Declarations
Prayer before the Word:
_O God, I reverence Your name for making me to be living among the living today. Open my eyes so that I will see and learn new things about You in Jesus name, Amen_
TODAY’S TOPIC: My fresh and my life
Text: John 12: 25-32 (NIV Bible)
"12:25 The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
12:27 "Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
12:28 Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again."
12:29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
12:30 Jesus said, "This voice was for your benefit, not mine.
12:31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.
12:32 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
*SHOWER:*
Our Lord Jesus when the time came for His crucification on the cross cried in verse 27 that his heart was troubled. This could be because of the sins of the world despite the facts that He had done various miracles, preaching and others to get us pay attention to God's will. It could also be because of His fresh. Just imagine how a true Son of God allowed Himself to pass through the pains; slapped, beaten, had his belle pierced with sword, mocked and at last nailed! What will you do if you're the one? The spirit is willing but fresh is also willing to counter such. But a voice from Heaven assured Him to go ahead. We have at various point in time faced with this type of challenges, indecisions and crisis. How have you encountered or/and overcome this type of situation in your life? There had been a time you prepared for fasting, doing one work or another for Christ, going to work, etc. only for a voice to come and order you to ceasefire even when another voice (which could be of God) is insisting that you should go ahead as He is with you. Some had by listening to the good voice, triumphed or escaped tribulations, accidents, gun attacks, been robbed and others. In this situation, it takes discerning spirit to find out which is real or fake and what to do. Our fresh is configured in a way that it attacks our spirit easily mostly when we have urgent spiritual work to do. Come to think of it; if Christ had listened to the voice of His fresh to back out. What would have happened to the world? The way forward is to ask for God's wisdom and direction at all times. It is He alone who can assist us to take right decisions at all time.
*PRAYER/DECLARATIONS*
O God, I thank You for Your words of exaltation. You have reminded me what I had forgotten. Please wash and renew me with excellent discerning spirit that I may know You and walk according to Your dictations in Jesus name, Amen!
*1. My God has empowered me with excellent discerning spirit. I cannot fear but stand firm in my faith.*
*2. I stand by the power of God to do exploit. Therefore, today will better than tomorrow in all that concerns me.*
*3. I hereby decree and declare that all my debtors and those whom God have destined to favour me must remember me, and become restless until they locate me and favour me in Jesus name, Amen.*