SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY: I Chronicles 12:20-23
20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh. 21 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host. 22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God. 23 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.
MORE LESSON: Psalm 75:6-7
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Saturday, 25 October
Memory Verse: For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God. 1 Chronicles 12:22
God's plan for His children is to make them shining lights. One way God places His children on the hilltop where they can shine for the whole world to see is through the ministry of destiny helpers. Destiny helpers are people whom God has set at different points in our lives to make the process easier. If God wants to bless a man, He uses a man. The man whom God uses to take you to a higher place is a destiny helper.
There are several people in the Bible whom God used the ministry of destiny helpers to lift. They include:
1. Joseph (Genesis 41): God used the chief butler and Pharaoh to elevate him. You know what brought Joseph to be remembered to this day was not even his dream, but the destiny helpers whom God sent into his life - the person who remembered that Joseph could interpret the king's dreams and the king who had the dream and vacated his chair for Joseph.
2. The man beaten by armed robbers in the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37): a man was travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho and was attacked by robbers, leaving him half dead. The two people who came and passed by were not his helpers. But when the man God had set out for him came, …he had compassion v33. He didn't think like the priest and Levite who left the victim unattended. The Samaritan helped him; he bound his wounds and poured oil and wine. In the modern day, that is what we call first aid. Then he took him to an inn (v34). He took care of him first before taking him to a hospital. He didn't just take him to the hospital to leave him there; he stayed there and paid the bills.
3. David (I Samuel 30:11-20): David was coming back from battle only to discover that bandits had overrun his village. As he went on a rescue mission, they found an Egyptian who was almost dying. They fed him, and when he was revived, upon enquiry, David discovered the boy was one of the bandits. And David asked him to take him to the band, and he did. David smote them all, leaving no one, and recovered everything they had stolen. Without the destiny helper whom God had set out for him, David wouldn't have been able to recover all that he had lost.
The ministry of destiny helpers is vital in the life of a man who wants to be a shining light. Becoming as shining light and having destiny helpers don't just happen; they require God's favour, which is reserved only for His own through redemption. Are you redeemed? Ask for God's favour and destiny helpers.
Prayer/Action
* Thank God for the gift of destiny helper that He has strategically placed in your path to greatness.
* Ask the Holy Spirit to make your destiny helper to locate and speak favourably about you.
* Pray that you will be connected to your destiny helper at the right time and right place.
TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: Father, every seed sower into the Master's Convention 2025 will find their harvest, in the powerful name of Jesus.
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