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TUESDAY 10TH October 2017
THEME:
I SHALL NOT BE POOR
MEMORISE:
All the brethren of the poor do hate him:
how much more do his friends go far from
him? he pursueth them with words, yet they
are wanting to him.
Proverbs 19:7
Read:
1Chronicles 4:9-10
9 And Jabez was more honourable than his
brethren: and his mother called his name
Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with
sorrow.
10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel,
saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me
indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine
hand might be with me, and that thou
wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not
grieve me! And God granted him that which
he requested.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Corinthians 12-14, Daniel 5:1-12
MESSAGE:
Having tasted poverty and a little bit of
wealth, I can tell you that wealth is better
than poverty. If you are living in poverty, I
prophesy over you that God will lift you out
of poverty in Jesus’ Name. One of the
reasons why I hate poverty so much is
because of what Proverbs 14:20 says about
the poor:
“The poor is hated even of his own
neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.”
In today’s Bible reading, we are introduced
to a Bible hero who experienced poverty,
but who was not hypocritical about his
undesirable condition. This fellow was
Jabez. His mother named him Jebez because
she gave birth to him with sorrow. As Jabez
grew up, he started experiencing the
meaning of his name, and so, he decided to
do something about it. It is unfortunate that
many people, even some children of God,
bear names with negative meanings and
connotations, and yet they refuse to do
something about it, even after they start
sensing the negative influence of such
names on their lives. My prayer for you today
is that the Almighty God will give you a name
that will wipe away generational curses
plaguing your life in Jesus’s Name. What
Jabez did to change his situation is a
common thing that some people don’t
consider necessary: he prayed.
There are many lessons we can learn from
the life of Jabez, the first of which is that
Jabez called on the God he knew was a
prayer-answering God - the God of Israel.
The question is, who are you calling upon?
Psalm 5:3 clearly tells us who we should
direct our prayers to:
“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer
unto thee, and will look up.”
A second lesson to learn from Jabez is that
he did not ask for a small blessing; rather,
he prayed that God should bless him indeed.
Thirdly, he prayed that God will be with him
in his prosperity and keep him from evil. It is
an open secret that many rich people live in
one calamity or the other. Jabez knew this,
and so he prayed against riches that attract
evil. What a great man who knew the ways
of God! If you want poverty to be history in
your life, you have to do something about it.
Jabez can be classified as someone who
was destined to die in penury, but he
prayed himself out of poverty and God
heard him. Jesus is the way out of poverty (2
Corinthians 8:9). The life that He gives and
His principles will lift you out of poverty.
Therefore, give your life to Him without
further delay today, and poverty shall
become history in your life in Jesus’ Name.
PRAYER POINT :
Father, please bless me indeed with Your
blessing that adds no sorrow.
AUTHOR:
PASTOR E. A. ADEBOYE
HYMN 10:
THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS
1. There shall be showers of blessing:
This is the promise of love;
There shall be seasons refreshing,
Sent from the Savior above.
Refrain:
Showers of blessing,
Showers of blessing we need:
Mercy-drops round us are falling,
But for the showers we plead.
2. There shall be showers of blessing,
Precious reviving again;
Over the hills and the valleys,
Sound of abundance of rain.
Refrain:
3. There shall be showers of blessing;
Send them upon us, O Lord;
Grant to us now a refreshing,
Come, and now honor Thy Word.
Refrain:
4. There shall be showers of blessing:
Oh, that today they might fall,
Now as to God we’re confessing,
Now as on Jesus we call!
Refrain
Prayer Points on Today's Open Heavens:
(Tuesday, October 10th, 2017) - I SHALL NOT
BE POOR
1.I worship you, Father, because, you are a
covenant keeping God.
2.Thank you, Father, for your covenant of
prosperity, over my life.
3.Father, in anyway, l have fallen short of
your glory, please, have mercy and forgive
me, in Jesus' name.
4.Father, let whatever, is responsible for lack
and poverty, in my life, be consumed by your
fire, in Jesus' name.
5.Father, let all generational curses, of
poverty in my life and lineage, be broken
upon my life and family, by the blood of
Jesus.
6.Father, give me the grace, to follow your
principle of divine prosperity, by paying my
tithes regularly, as at when due, and give
you bountiful offerings, at all times, in Jesus'
name.
7.Father, release, upon my life the "prayer
anointing", and empower me to pray
without season, in Jesus' name.
8.Lord Jesus, you are the way out of lack and
poverty; please, come and take control and
preeminence in my life and let every yoke of
poverty be destroyed.
9.Father, you are the one that opens a door,
that no man can shut; please, come and
open the doors of your prosperity,
perpetually, for me, in Jesus' name.
10.Father, bless me indeed, with your
blessings, that add no sorrow and enlarge
my coast; let your hand be upon me, and
keep evil, far away from me, in Jesus' name.
11.I decree, by the power of the trinity, that,
I shall never be poor, in Jesus' name.
12.Your Personal petitions.
( Philippians 4:6)
13.In Jesus' name I pray.
(John 14:13-14; 15:16)
14.Thank you Father for answered prayers.
(1 Thessalonians 5:18).
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