DAILY SHOWER August 19, 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: Why our wounds not healed?
Text: Jeremiah 8:17-22 (NIV):
"8:17. See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the LORD.
8:18. O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
8:19. Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"
8:20. "The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved."
8:21. Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.
8:22. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?"
SHOWER (Reflection):
Why me, why you and why now are what most people decry daily. They have passed through pains and agony, sought for solutions all over the places yet their problems not solved. Today's scripture is making us to understand that some sicknesses or travails we are passing through were caused by us. And the solutions remain repentance. You can see in verse 19 as God explained that His anger is that we turned images and objects to gods even when we know that they are not. Verse 22 asked if there was no physician in the land to heal us? There is one; His name is Jesus. We must totally surrender to Him to make way for us.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O God, hearken to my plea for mercy. I'm sorry for my iniquity. Have mercy in me so that I will change for good in Jesus, Amen.
2. O Jesus, I don't want to fail You. Lift me higher to worship and excel in Your kingdom works and in all that concerns me in Jesus name, Amen.
3. I'm in Your hands. Therefore, I must not return home empty handed today in Jesus, name!