“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty you may become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9)
Most of us tend to have what one may call baggage excess. These are clothes and footwear that we can go through a year without ever using. They sit in our drawers and we sometime fight for space. There are clothes we long outgrew, shoes out of fashion.
Meanwhile, as we crowd our lives with all these things that fill up space somewhere lies someone in desperate need of such. Today one of the most lucrative markets is the sale of old stuff from the West. Bales of used clothes are always making it to the African Market which in some respect turn our nation to become more like a dumping ground. Why? What no longer matters to someone out there for others it is gold.
So how about if some of us who are blessed could also put aside a basket where we dump those clothes and footwear we hardly use. Not to profit from, like our secular western friends, but show the love of Jesus. At the end of the year we could look for a neighbor out there who might need them. Especially in the villages where so many folks go for holidays. Wouldn’t that glorify God and perhaps lead someone to Christ?
Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, today I pray that I practice putting aside things I do not need to bless others in need.
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24/04/2024 - 25/04/2024 All day“May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed” (Psalm 20:4)
Premier Joseph and King David have a particular common characteristics: two individuals who were blessed with success, in their work. When Joseph was taken into the household of Potiphar, “The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered...When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant” ( Gen 39:2-4).
Even when he was imprisoned later, on false accusations, “The LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there” (vv 21-22). Later in his life he is made second in command of Egypt by Pharaoh. “You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you” (Genesis 41:40).
For David, after he disposed off Goliath, “Whatever mission Saul sent him on, David was so successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army” (1 Samuel 18:5). His success on the battle field would soon cause trouble for him when the troops started singing, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands” (vv 7).
In spite of Saul’s anger at the comparison and even trying to kill him, for David “in everything he did he had great success, because the LORD was with him. When Saul saw how successful he was, he was afraid of him. But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns” (vv 14-16). Eventually, the throne would pass on to David.
Success in life is one of the blessings the Lord has marked out for believers. These individuals were successful because the Lord was with them. The only one who does not wish to see success of us, is the enemy Satan, who comes to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10). May we pray that our lives are characterized with the anointing of success, because the Lord is with us!
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today I pray that I bask in your success, in all that I do, because as was with your servants Joseph, David, Daniel and others, you are with me, and this I pray in Jesus’ name.
