MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY 9TH OCTOBER 2019 – DEALING WITH PERSECUTION

MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL  FOR TODAY

Memory verse

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. – 2 Timothy 3:12

Motivational Quote

Appreciate it when you are being criticized, for if you have no critics you will likely have no success.

Prophetic Word

Today, all your persecutors shall be disgraced.

Today, we want to look at one of the common tools in the hand of the devil that makes the people of God to run away from Christianity. It is simply called persecution. It means torture, torment, and so on. In the Fire Scripture, Apostle Paul also asked a question, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” The major aim of the devil is to use this tool of persecution to separate us from the love Christ has for us, to make us believe that Christ does not even love us, to show us a negative alternative to the love of Christ through deceit, counterfeit gifts and so on etc.

He comes in to deceive us when there are challenges confronting us which God knows about and probably wants to use to develop us, to train us and to test us. I don’t know what challenges are confronting you now. I don’t know what trials and troubles you are passing through now from your family members. I don’t know what your heart desire is that your own people who are supposed to be your helpers are denying you of today because you are a child of God. Beloved, we have seen people who passed through worse situations than yours but they finally came out of it and were divinely elevated beyond the imaginations of their persecutors.

The Bible says that the testing of our faith produce endurance. It also enjoins us to let endurance have its perfect result, so that we may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing (James 1:3-4). Persecution is profitable both to individual Christians and the Church. It makes the Church to flourish. In Acts 8, we read about Saul persecuting the believers and many of them were scattered abroad and they went everywhere preaching God’s word. Our reaction to persecution should be endurance and faith. As Christians, there is reward for anything we suffer for Christ’s sake. Besides, God is with us believers in every situation. Begin to see God in your situation and have faith in Him. Soon, you shall come out of it and God shall be glorified in your life and situation. God bless you.aced.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. Father, teach me what to do when I am being persecuted, in the name of Jesus.

2. Grace to pass through all persecutions as a Christian, come upon my life, in the name of Jesus.

3. Today, I receive power to persecute my persecutors, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING

4. I reject all negative alternatives to my challenges, in the name of Jesus.

5. Powers assigned to persecute me because I am a Christian, die, in the name of Jesus.

6. Every persecution assigned to separate me from the love of Christ, die, in the name of Jesus.

7. By the power of the Holy Spirit, I remain in the love of Christ and no persecution can kill me, in the name of Jesus.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Isaiah 32,  Isaiah 33  and Colossians 1

MFM HYMN FOR TODAY: MORE LOVE TO THEE, O CHRIST

1. More love to Thee, O Christ,

More love to Thee!

Hear Thou the prayer I make

On bended knee;

This is my earnest plea:

More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee,

More love to Thee!

2. Once earthly joy I craved,

Sought peace and rest;

Now Thee alone I seek,

Give what is best;

This all my prayer shall be:

More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee,

More love to Thee!

3. Then shall my latest breath

Whisper Thy praise;

This be the parting cry

My heart shall raise;

This still its prayer shall be:

More love, O Christ, to Thee,

More love to Thee,

More love to Thee!

– Elizabeth Prentiss