The theme for MFM Daily Devotional January 15 2023 is ”The Praying Family ”
Here is today’s MFM daily devotional designed for your today’s spiritual refreshment. Kindly read today’s teaching by Dr DK Olukoya, meditate on the word of God and endeavour to act in accordance with them. As you start your day with God through his word, may he go before you to perfect all you have to do today.
Read MFM Daily Devotional January 15 2023.
SCRIPTUTRE: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. ” – Proverbs 13:4.
The Bible affirms that God worked for six days and rested on the seventh. Jesus said, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working” (John 5:17, NKJV). If God is hard working. what reason should anyone have not to work? God condemns laziness and it is not a virtue in His kingdom.
There are able-bodied people that have jobs to do but prefer to laze around doing nothing. Proverbs 13:4 says, “The soul of the lazy man desires, and has nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.” The lazy man desires what hardworking people want: house, food, vacations, money for college and retirement, but his desires remain unsatisfied, while the diligent gain wealth.
How do we identify a lazy person? Here are some of the traits we can use: First, a lazy person is always full of excuses to explain away his or her idleness. For instance, a lazy person would complain of cold or heat (bad weather). Proverbs 20:4 says, “The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.” Also, in this regard a lazy person finds faults with his tools. An English proverb says that a lazy workman quarrels with his tools. Second, a lazy person loves sleep. Oversleeping and idleness lead to poverty. Proverbs 20:13 affirms this, “Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.”
Another mark of a lazy person is failure to study the Bible and to pray. These two traits lead to spiritual hydration, powerlessness and sometimes death. Lastly, lazy persons often lack vision, goal and personal drive.
Beloved, laziness gives birth to poverty, dependence on others, begging or sponging on others, low self-esteem and dishonour. Pray the negative traits of laziness and their consequences out of your life. In 2 Thessalonians 3:10, the Bible says that anyone who would not work should also not eat. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Double your efforts, if you have to. God will bless you with a great harvest. You will not labour in vain, in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
- O God, arise and deliver me from the spirit of laziness, in the name of Jesus.
- Any power manipulating my life through excessive sleep and lame excuses, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Spirit of under-performance and non-achievement, release me and die, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING
- I destroy every form of weariness and tiredness by the power in the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus
- Father, forgive me the sin of spiritual laziness, in the name of Jesus.
- Father, give me the grace and power to work and to prosper, in the name of Jesus.
- O God, arise and rid my life of all the consequences of laziness, in the name of Jesus.
Credit for today’s Mountain of fire‘s daily devotional January 15 2023: Mountain of Fire Ministries/Mountain of Fire
