DAILY SHOWER August 3, 2022 Devotion and Declarations
Prayer before the Word:
_ O God, my King, my Your name be highly glorified for the gift of life. Forgive my trespasses. Please, show me Your way, and assist me to follow it to the end in Jesus name, Amen_
TODAY’S TOPIC: Excuses that kill vision
Text: Haggai 1:2-11 (NIV):
"1:2. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come for the LORD'S house to be built.'"
1:3. Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
1:4. "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?"
1:5. Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.
1:6. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."
1:7. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.
1:8. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD.
1:9. "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house.
1:10. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
1:11. I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands."
SHOWER (Reflection):
Be wary or careful of excuses you give on daily or timely basis. Many have through this, lost God's favour and blessings. You have an opportunity to give offering, build or decorate God's house or that of your neighbour. So, why still postponing it? The Spirit of procrastination has killed so many visions. In verses 5 and 9, God through the mouth of Prophet Haggai warned us to look inward to look inward and make an amend. That your prayers whose answers were delayed could be because of your procrastination. In verses 10 and 11, God specifically says He withheld all these because you are yet to do the right thing at the right time. Be careful and turn a new leaf before is too late.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O God, help me to overcome the spirit of procrastination and excuses. In You I trust so that I may live to fulfill my destiny.
2. I bear the mark of Christ, Jesus. I will go higher and no retrogress because He in me is bigger than He in the world.
3. In this month of August, I will keep soaring higher. My lifestyle, neighbours and enemies cannot stop me from wearing the crown in Jesus name I prophesy unto myself, Amen!!!