Memorise: The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Proverbs 11:25
Read: Proverbs 11:24-26 (King James Version)
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
Bible in one year: Matthew 18:19, Isaiah 7:10-25
AS REVEALED BY PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE IN TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL
1. For all those who have received the gift of righteousness through the finished work of Calvary, the design of God for our lives is that we live by His favour. The Psalmist spoke prophetically about this in Psalm 5:12:“For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.”
2. The reality of this was manifested in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 2:52), and the early church also experienced the same (Acts 2:47). However, there are some keys that unlock the door to experiencing God’s favour. One of these keys is found in today’s Bible reading, which says: “The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself” Proverbs 11:25
3. Before you can access the fatness and abundance you desire from Heaven, you must first learn to give to the Lord what you treasure: your best and your all. This is what brings about the difference in results experienced by a person living by God’s favour and a person living by labour; one is definitely easier to achieve than the other.
4. Towards the end of a particular year, one of my sons preached on the difference between labour and favour. He cited two examples: Jacob and Isaac. According to him, when Jacob wanted a wife, he laboured for 14 years before he could get his heartthrob, but when Isaac wanted to marry, he just went on a stroll.
5. Are you not tired of increase dependent on labour? Why exert everything you have for several years to get a particular blessing, when you can pay a little price through sowing and still get great results in a shorter time, without much stress?
6. One effective way of redeeming the time, as admonished in Ephesians 5:16, is to dump less effective methods for better, faster and less stressful ways of doing things. You are not redeeming the time when you increase only through labour. This implies that so many things will have to wait until you have the strength to work for them. Why go by labour when you rise on the wings of divine favour? Choose the vehicle to your place of destiny today!
Action Point
The price you pay to ride a flight by favour, through sowing seeds, is far cheaper than what you have to pay through labour.
SHORT REFLECTION BY THE LIGHT POINTERS
Glory to the almighty God for today’s devotional. By the grace of God, keys to unlocking the favour of God and working and riding in such favour has just been revealed through our father in the Lord. The bibles days in ECCL 9:11 says ” I returned and saw under the sun that—The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,Nor riches to men of understanding,Nor favor to men of skill;But time and chance happen to them all. The meaning of that verse is that, life is not about how energetic one is but the grace of God will make a difference and anything we do out of the grace of God becomes a race and struggle. Brethren let’s wake up and start riding on the favour of God this season.
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