DAILY SHOWER April 22, 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: Our Lord is living God
Text: Jeremiah 10:2-10 NIV:
"10:2. This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them.
10:3. For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
10:4. They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.
10:5. Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good."
10:6. No one is like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.
10:7. Who should not revere you, O King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
10:8. They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.
10:9. Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz. What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is then dressed in blue and purple--all made by skilled workers.
10:10. But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath."
SHOWER (Reflection):
Our Lord is only living God. When others are idols made from woods, painting and so on, He is not made. Is it not funny to say that people prefer worshipping objects made out of what He made, instead of Him? Come to think of it...how would you feel, if for instance, you author a book and people extract some passages or sentence from the work, and take them as their best quote, inspiration or god instead of mentioning your name? Wouldn't you get angry, sue or punish the offenders? You can now imagine what we do to almighty God! Verse 8 describes such adherents as senseless and foolish because they worship a worthless (lifeless) idols! The choice is ours to make God our true God.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O God my father, because You live forever, I reject, renounce and set on fire, any object that is making self god to my life, in Jesus name, Amen.
2. O God arise and manifest Your power in my life so that people will see reasons to follow me to serve You...in Jesus name, Amen.
3. By the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, I must surmount the unsurmountable and lift the heavenly crown at the end, in Jesus name , Amen.