DAILY SHOWER May 15, 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: God is our greatest provider
Text: Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV):
"6:25. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
6:26. Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
6:27. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
6:28. "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
6:29. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
6:30. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
6:31. So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
6:32. For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
6:33. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
6:34. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
SHOWER (Reflection):
God is the greatest provider. When you diligently seek Him, serve Him and depend on Him, He will amaze you with provisions. This particular passage we are reading today is one of the greatest message we all should study, meditate and abide by always. As children of God, who admitted that we were created in His own image, there is nothing to worry about life. Animals of all kinds are been provided for daily. So also He provides to us. Do you think your working hard or hardworking matters most in your income? It is God who makes it work. A young researcher told a testimony of how he spent five days in a trip to Lagos for a research. He said that while returning to his base in Awka, he got information from his supposed respondents to also come to Abuja in four days time. He accepted their requests to come but there was no money because he was the person sponsoring the trip and research. He trusted God and moved on to offer thanksgiving for a successful journey in his church same day. According to him, before the day closed, he got two small contracts online that have him ₦15,000. More came the following day and he had enough to travel with. That's what this passage we read today is trying to explain to us. It is not saying that you shouldn't work. No! It is telling us to trust in God always and never use excuse to run away from God's work as He will always bless you when you need Him most. Worry not but trust in God!!!
PRAYER/DECLARATIONS
1. Anything in me, around me or within me trying to deprive me of God's favour, perish now in the name of Jesus... Amen.
2. O you wicked foundation that swore over your dead body to see me rise above the standard you set for my parents, I overpower you today, die and burn to ashes in the name of Jesus Christ...Amen.
3. By the power in the blood of Jesus Christ, this week shall be my week of promotions and testimonies, in the name of Jesus Christ... Amen.