MFM Daily Devotional 5 February 2022
Topic: The Price of Spiritual Power (II)
MEMORY VERSE: John 12:24 – “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: The greatest change that God desires to see in our lives is for us to move from being dead in sin to being dead to sin.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: I prophesy that the heaven of great outpouring of God’s power shall open for you today, in the Name of Jesus.
PRAISE & WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Romans 12:1-2
The second price you need to pay to receive spiritual power is to be dead to sin, self and the world. John 12:24, the Bible says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
The endosperm must die and give up its contents in order to support life and regenerate the dying seed. If the endosperm refuses to give up itself and support the developing embryo, there would not be a new life springing up from the dying seed. A seed must lose its life to fulfil its ultimate purpose. Likewise, everyone needs to shun worldliness in order to gain eternity (John 12:25).
Being dead is having God alone, not God and any other thing. God wants to know if He or self was the one reigning in the life of Abraham; He tested him by asking him to sacrifice Isaac to Him. Abraham was willing to offer Isaac. You must come to a point in your life, that there is nothing you cannot give God. In God’s Kingdom, we gain things by losing them or first releasing them for God’s use.
The third price is that you must live a life of sacrifice. In Romans 12:1-2, the Bible says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Sacrifice means giving to the Lord whatever He requires of our time, our earthly possessions and our energies to further His work. To be a living sacrifice means to live every minute of every day as an offering and service to the Lord. It is being willing and ready to do the Lord’s bidding and go anywhere for Him, regardless of whether it is convenient for us or not.
Beloved, if you want God to endow you with His power, your life in all its entirety must be consecrated and offered to God to use as He pleases!
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Exodus 36–38; Matthew 23:1–22
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
1. I receive the grace to be dead to sin, self and the world, in the Name of Jesus.
2. Father, give me the grace to be willing to give anything to You in order to gain everything, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Father, I offer my life to You as a living sacrifice, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Anything in my life that is not cooperating with the Spirit and fire of God, die now, in the Name of Jesus.
5. Enemies of anointing, I am not your candidate, scatter, in the Name of Jesus.
6. My Father, baptise me with Your Spirit and make me a world-changer, in the Name of Jesus.
7. Power of God, move me from the back to the front and from the valley to the mountain top, in the Name of Jesus.
