Demand a Change

Monday 3 August
READ: Luke 16: 19 - 31
MORE LESSON: Matt 11: 12

Do not be satisfied with mediocrity in life. Your situation can be better; you can be more blessed than you are now. When things are not yet the way you want them to be, don't sit down with your legs crossed and say, 'Well if is the will of God, it will happen. It will never happen that way. Remember that from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force: Matt 11:12. For example, a good way to die fast is to be sick and lie down hopelessly saying, 'If God says I won't die, then I won't die but if God says I will die, I will die.' I assure you that you will die and it will happen real fast. Instead, get on your feet and shout to the hearing of men, the devil and heaven; I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord: Psa. 118:17. Then you mean business and I can assure you, based on the integrity of the Word of God, that you will not die.

In Luke 1: 19 – 31, you will find the story of the rich man and Lazarus. Lazarus was the righteous beggar who sat under the table, full of sickness and poverty and waiting for crumbs from the rich man's table. He lived all his life with sores on his body, poverty ruling him, then he died and made heaven. Do you know that a man can live under a curse, get born-again and preach to others but the curse remains unbroken till he dies and goes to heaven? Such a man will go to heaven but he would not have lived a fulfilled life on the face of the earth.

Lazarus went hungry and sick all his life on earth but went to heaven. The question that should be asked is that if God could not feed him during his short life here on earth how will He be able to feed him in heaven for eternity? So, it wasn't that God couldn't feed him but he didn't care to know and demand more from God beyond the fact that he will go to heaven one day after his suffering on earth. He never got up one day and said; 'Whatever it will cost me, I renounce this curse of poverty and sickness today'. He was more interested in begging for food from the rich man than in rising up, a healed man, to go and preach to the rich man. So it wasn't as if God could not prevail for Lazarus. The issue was that Lazarus never got to the point of rising up and demanding that his situation must change.

If you will rise up and place a demand, your situation will change. Your destiny is in your hand to fulfil. Take hold of bow and arrow and ask heaven for help until your change comes.

Prayer/Action
* Raise a standard against every force working against your success in destiny by the blood and in the name of Jesus.
* Command a change of every stagnant negative situation prevailing against your life.
* Ask God for divine direction and speedy turnaround over every burden and challenge of your life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I decree that the dark clouds of August shall be neutralised and great blessings shall come down as rain for me and for my family, in Jesus’ name.