MFM Daily Devotional 23 August 2024
TOPIC: When The Lord Is For You!
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ecclesiastes 11; Ecclesiastes 12; Matthew 1; Matthew 2
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Psalm 124
124 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
MEMORY VERSE
Give us help from trouble: For vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalm 60:11-12
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: When the Lord is for you and with you, no power can overcome you.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: The Lord shall be there to fight for you and to protect you, in the name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional 23 August 2024 MESSAGE
God loves His children and would not want any evil to befall them. He guards them so jealous that whoever touches them incurs His wrath. As children of God, we are the apple of His eyes. Who then can poke his hands into God’s eyes and not be visited with His displeasure.
This has been the story of the Israelites who through the Bible are seen as the covenant children of God. Whenever they are confronted by their enemies or any kind of challenge at all, the Lord God Almighty, who has been their Pillar of fire through the wilderness to the Promised Land, will always arise and help them. As a Christian, it is your birthright to enjoy the same privilege because of Jesus Christ, through whom we have been redeemed and reconciled to God and we become joint heirs with Him.
READ MFM Daily Devotional 22 August 2024 – Not Everyone That Calls Me Lord
Paul wrote, “Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:11- 13).
What a divine privilege to be called God’s own! You must surrender your life to Jesus and become a child of God if you are not so that you can be a partaker of this privilege.
The Psalmist is one person who reverence God and appreciates His power to protect, defend and uphold His children. Also, he has been a classical example of someone who has experienced the blessings that are attached to God being with you.
Therefore in this Psalm, he exclaimed the great deliverance that comes from the presence and power of God in a person’s life: “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say.”
The enemies’ attempts were frustrated, their snare got broken and the beloved of God was able to escape. This is victory made possible by the power of God!
Stay connected and grateful to God.
MFM DAILY PRAYER POINTS 23 AUGUST 2024
MORNING:
1. I thank You, Father, for giving me great deliverance, in the name of Jesus.
2. Father, I thank You for frustrating the efforts of the enemy over my life, in the name of Jesus.
3. O Lord, continue to be my Help and Shield from all attacks of the enemies, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING:
4. By the power of God, I escape from every snare of the wicked, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God, arise and frustrate the weapons of the fowler assigned against me, in the name of Jesus.
6. Let the trap set for me catch the owners, in the name of Jesus.
7. O Lord, continue to fight for me and I shall keep my peace, in the name of Jesus.
