DAILY SHOWER January 30, 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: Lead by example
Text: Ezekiel 34:2-11 (NIV):
"34:2. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
34:3. You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.
34:4. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
34:5. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals.
34:6. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
34:7. 'Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
34:8. As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,
34:9. therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:
34:10. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
34:11. "'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.
SHOWER (Reflection):
Leadership is an act of God. It is both art and craft mastered by God and gifted to His children. When God anoints you to lead, you will do exploit. But when you go contrary to those rules, He will equally take it away from you and hand it over to someone else. That is what God is reminding us today in the book of Ezekiel. Which leadership position are you holding today? Even your family are flock you are/should be leading. He says that if you fail to adhere to this, He will take away the responsibility from you and give another person. God added in subsequent verses not added today, that you will be left to be joblessness, hunger, starvation, etc. Be careful today!
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O you works of the fresh induced by the evil powers to frustrate me from leading the flocks well, i command you to die by fire ... in Jesus name, Amen.
2. O God arise by your mercy and favour today that i will be favoured by my family, fiends or strangers as i come in contact with them this week ...in Jesus name, Amen.
3. O God, my greatest healer, heal my wound today-spiritually and physically⁶ ...in Jesus name, Amen!