DAILY SHOWER April 02, 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: Price awaits every action
Text: Jeremiah 36:23-32 (NIV):
"36:23. Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire.
36:24. The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
36:25. Even though Elnathan, Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
36:26. Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
36:27. After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
36:28. "Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.
36:29. Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, 'This is what the LORD says: You burned that scroll and said, "Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and cut off both men and animals from it?"
36:30. Therefore, this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.
36:31. I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.'"
36:32. So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them."
SHOWER (Reflection):
King Jehoiakim was full of himself that he burnt the scroll containing God's message to his people. Little did he know that God's word cannot be burnt. It is always afresh and continuous. You cannot stop the spreading of gospel. This is problem we have in the world today. People are not only refusing to adhere to God's instructions/commandments, but they are also fighting the ministers and ministry. The price as we can see here is curse. You incur God's curses on you and will surely die! Don't fight the gospel. Always look at whatever message given to you and see how you can obey or dispute them by talking to God in prayers and supplications.
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. O God, my father, bring down the pride and arrogant, pay the enemies in their own coins...in Jesus name, Amen.
2. By the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, in this month of April, every divination, incantation and plans of the enemy must return to them hundred fold...in Jesus name, Amen.
3. O God arise, make me to encounter you for better tomorrow in Jesus name, Amen.