I SHALL NOT BE POOR – Tuesday October 10th 2017
Memorise:
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends
go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to
him. Proverbs 19:7
4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
MESSAGE:
Having
tasted poverty and a little bit of wealth, I can tell you that wealth
is better than poverty. If you are living in poverty, I prophesy over
you that God will lift you out of poverty in Jesus’ Name. One of the
reasons why I hate poverty so much is because of what Proverbs 14:20 says about the poor:
“The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.”
In
today’s Bible reading, we are introduced to a Bible hero who
experienced poverty, but who was not hypocritical about his undesirable
condition. This fellow was Jabez. His mother named him Jabez because she
gave birth to him with sorrow. As Jabez grew up, he started
experiencing the meaning of his name, and so, he decided to do something
about it. it is unfortunate that many people, even some children of
God, bear names with negative meanings and connotations, and yet they
refuse to do something about it, even after they start sensing the
negative influence of such names on their lives. Open Heaven 10 October
2017: Tuesday daily devotional by Pastor E. A. Adeboye – I Shall Not Be
Poor. My prayer for you today is that the Almighty God will give you a
name that will wipe away generational curses plaguing your life in
Jesus’ Name. What Jabez did to change his situation is a common thing
that some people don’t consider necessary: he Prayed.
There
are many lessons we can learn from the life of Jabez, the first of
which is that Jazez called on the God he knew was a prayer-answering God
– the God of Israel. The question is, who are you calling upon? Psalm 5:3 clearly tells us who we should direct our prayers to:
“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.”
A second lesson to learn from Jabez is that he did not ask for a small blessing; rather, he prayed that God should bless him indeed. Thirdly,
he prayed that God would be with him in his prosperity and keep him
from evil.
It is an open secret that many rich people live in one
calamity or the other. Jabez knew this, and so he prayed against riches
that attract evil. What a great man who knew the ways of God! If you
want poverty to be history in your life, you have to do something about
it. Jabez can be classified as someone who was destined to die in
penury, but he prayed himself out of poverty and God heard him. Jesus is
the way out of poverty (2nd Corinthians 8:9).
The life that He gives and His principle will lift you out of poverty.
Therefore, give your life to Him without further delay today, and
poverty shall become history in your life in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer point
Father, please bless me indeed with Your blessing that adds no sorrow.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of
Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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