DAILY SHOWER January 10, 2023 Devotion and Declarations
Prayer before the Word:
_ O God, I thank You for yet another day. I magnify Your name because You are my God and all I have. Please, use me according to Your will and prosper me in Jesus name, Amen_
TODAY’S TOPIC: Do not miss your opportunity to shine
Text: John 4:7-14 (NIV):
"4:7. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
4:8. (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
4:9. The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
4:10. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
4:11. "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
4:12. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
4:13. Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again
4:14. but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
4:15. The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
SHOWER (Reflection):
Missed opportunities come but once. We are often confronted by it or them. But we are not always concerned with how to utilise it. Here is a woman (in our today's scripture), telling Jesus (with pride) that she wouldn't give him water because of tribal and religious differences. This is a man she didn't know abinitio. She further gave other reasons which according to her, were why she was determined to loose her opportunity. A lot of us have done that in the past. Some shunned, stumbled upon and disgraced those destined to marry then. Please, do not allow denominations, tribe/race and so on to prevent you from accessing the hidden treasures God deposited for you somewhere this year. You must be truthful, depend and seek His face to direct you accordingly so that you will drink the water of life. Do not allow your job, career and others to deprive you of water of life Jesus has got you.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O Jesus, open my eyes to see reasons to serve You alone and enjoy the heavenly and earthly benefits, Jesus name, Amen.
2. My God is reigning. I will reign. My God is king of opportunities. I will enjoy all this yearmJesus name I pray, Amen!
3. O God arise, frustrate, punish and put away from me forever anything made by hand of man to terminate my life this year, in Jesus name, Amen!
Go on, explore and celebrate all through 2023!!!