SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY: Exodus 23: 25-30
25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
MORE LESSON: Proverbs 28:18-19
18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. 19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Sunday, 12 October
Memory Verse: Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. Psalm 71:21
God is strategic and will always bring to pass His counsel in due time. One of His strategies as recorded in our memory verse is advancing His people with incremental steps. Jehovah doesn't always make things grow over night, rather He makes room for regular increase. The law of natural increase that God has put in place is such that humans are not born as adults, but as babies who grow up to become adults little by little.
The Saviour came into the world to procure salvation for mankind but had to follow the process of nature that God put in place in the world. Jesus had to be born as a baby and grew up to become the Saviour He was meant to be. There is the process of growth that we must not circumvent. The Bible says, He that is in a hurry to be rich shall not be innocent (Proverbs 28:20). We must follow the process of wealth acquisition, which includes wisdom, hard work, dedication and patience, leading to incremental progress.
Considering today's Scripture it is clear that God promised the children of Israel the blessing for serving Him and a promise to create more space for them by dislodging their enemies in a strategic manner – little by little! God's wisdom was that if He drove all their enemies suddenly, the breakthrough could become a challenge to them. The Almighty reasoned that the beast of the field might multiply against them, if the inhabitants of the land were driven before Israel quickly and suddenly. Strong and lasting testimonies go through a full circle of process and we must learn to wait and go through the proceeding.
In applying the above Scripture, we understand that God does not want us to be static in life. He wants us to move no matter how little the movement is, until we become a movement and a force to reckon with. In 2 Peter 1:5-9 the principle of addition is advocated, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity. By little additions here and there we become great with time.
Prayer/Action
* Thank God because your growth is sure and steady.
* Ask the Lord to ensure your greatness as you increase day by day.
* Pray that every enemy of your greatness lose their power right now
TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: I activate the force of divine covenant to take my destiny to the place of greatness and celebration today, in the wonderful name of Jesus.
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