DAILY SHOWER August 7, 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: Godliness not means for financial gain
Text: 1 Timothy 6: 3-10 (NIV):
"6:3. If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching,
6:4. he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions
6:5. and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
6:6. But godliness with contentment is great gain.
6:7. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
6:8. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
6:9. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
6:10. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
SHOWER (Reflection):
This topic is necessary now people have turned righteousness to a personal gain. Salvation is now seen as a means to an end or vehicle to becoming rich. Hence, they doubt or see Christian or born again who still suffer as fake. Disheartening! They have forgot that Job was suffered because of his righteousness. Verse 6 tells us that godliness with contentment is great gain. That is, Godliness should make one to be contented with what they have or how they were created by God. That is sure way, according to the scripture. It goes further to remind us that love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. It did not say that people who shouldn't genuinely make money. What it only wants us to do is to refrain from committing atrocities in a quest to make money.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O God, help me to genuinely follow You, work and prosper in your kingdom work without blemish in Jesus name, Amen.
2. The spirit that wants me to fall is hereby defeated in the blood of the lamb. All I need to survive and march on have been bestowed on me by the Lord Jesus, Amen.
3. I am a conqueror. I am a winner. I must march forward this month whether my enemies like it or not. No weapon fashioned against me shall ever prosper in Jesus name, Amen!!!