To the Law and Testimony

Friday 18 August
READ: Isa. 8: 18-20
MORE LESSON: Gal. 1: 6 – 9

Jesus is light and every counsel, testimony or word must conform to Him or else they are invalid. This means that any word or counsel that any one gives you and it cannot be confirmed by the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus is not a right counsel. You must reject that counsel even if the one who gives it is a man of God. Apostle Paul went to the extent of saying that if any man or even an angel comes to give a gospel that is not consistent with the Word of God, the counsel should be rejected and the giver be accursed.
A lady goes to a prophet to pray for the fruit of the womb and the 'man of God' says that as part of the prayer, he would have to sleep with her. Is that according to the law and testimony of Jesus? It is wrong to go to such a son of the devil in the first place, so the right thing to do is never to go near such an environment again. A man is given counsel to abandon his spiritual source and God's cover over his life and to start visiting strange spiritual sources. That counsel is not according to the law and testimony of Jesus. Have you also noticed that gossips never have anything scriptural to talk about? It is only stories they give. Even when they quote the Bible they quote out of context because they won’t study the Bible and what they say is unscriptural. Do not listen to gossips and slanderers because they do not talk according to the law and the testimony of Jesus. When I wanted to silence all the gossips around me, I announced that anyone who gives me information about anybody must be ready to confirm what he is saying in the presence of the victim.
You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Make sure everything you say carries light and salt. Your words should bring illumination to someone's path and seasoning cum preservation to someone's life. Make sure the words you say conform to the law of God and the testimony of Jesus, Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers: Eph 4:29. You must also check every counsel and word spoken to you to see whether it is according to the law and testimony of Jesus, But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned: Matt. 12:36-37.

Prayer/Action
* Declare that every handwriting of evil against you be blotted out, in Jesus’ name.
* Pray that every word that you speak from today shall be words seasoned with grace, in Jesus’ name.
* Destroy by fire any ill-spoken words projected against you, your household or your local church, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Jehovah God, today is the day of my replenishing, I shall no longer be famished or dry, in the mighty name of Jesus.