MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE, MFM DAILY DEVOTIONAL {JAN-DEC 2024, VOLUME 9}, SATURDAY 20, JANUARY 2024:-LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF PROPHET NATHAN {4}

Written by Dr D.K. Olukoya, General Overseer, MFM worldwide

 Posted by allcitynews.ng

MFM 2024: OUR YEAR OF OPEN DOORS & DIVINE SPEED

MFM Topic for Sat 20××××01××××24: lessons from the life of Prohet Nathan {4}

Welcome to the life-changing programme that always connect participant to an encounter with the God that Answers by Fire

Welcome to MFM Devotional, 20××××01××××24

PRAISE & WORSHIP:

 Sometimes a light surprises
  The Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord who rises
  With healing in His wings;
When comforts are declining,
  He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
  To cheer it after rain.

2

In holy contemplation
  We sweetly then pursue
The theme of God’s salvation,
  And find it ever new;
Set free from present sorrow,
  We cheerfully can say—
E’en let the unknown morrow
  Bring with it what it may.

3

It can bring with it nothing,
  But He will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing,
  Will clothe His people too:
Beneath the spreading heavens
  No creature but is fed;
And He, who feeds the ravens,
  Will give His children bread.

4

Though vine nor fig tree neither
  Their wonted fruit shall bear;
Though all the fields should wither
  Nor flocks nor herds be there;
Yet God the same abiding,
  His praise shall tune my voice,
For, while in Him confiding,
  I cannot but rejoice.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
EXODUS 8, EXODUS 9, EXODUS 10; LUKE 14, LUKE 15, LUKE 16

MEMORY VERSE:
1 Peter 4:8 – “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.

20~~~01~~~PROPHETIC WORD:
Your life will count, in the name of Jesus.

FIRE SCRIPTURE:
2 Samuel 12:13-25

20~~~01~~~24 MESSAGE:

Prophet Nathan comforted and uplifted a broken friend. He was not judgmental. in today’s Fire Scripture, when David said, “I have sinned,” Nathan replied him with a message of hope: “And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.”

Of course, the child that resulted from David’s adulterous and murderous act died; yet, in God’s mercy, Bathsheba had another child for David. When this was born, Nathan came again with a comforting message about the love of God for the family, especially the child.

Nathan left David’s sin where it belonged, in the past. He did not continue to remind him of his mess. His focus was now on the hope of the future, on this young child Solomon (Jedidiah). His words were intended to build up his friend David and encourage him in the LORD, not a reminder of past failures.

We serve a God who forgives and forgets. If the LORD does so, then we as His people need to also leave past wrongs that have been confessed and forgiven where they belong.

What if Barnabas had not given Saul of Tarsus a second chance? What if he held his grievous sins against him rather than showing confidence in his repentance (Acts 9:26-28). We ought to emulate this wonderful approach. Leave the sin behind, and press forward together (Philippians 3:13-14).

Beloved, many of our Christian fallen heroes have been left to rot away in the hands of satan simply because of our judgmental approach to them. Many of them would have loved to get back on their spiritual feet, but no one was loving enough to wrap their hands around them to get them back.

In fact, due to this judgmental approach, many fallen heroes have died and some have taken their own lives. We can do better in the body of Christ. Let’s cultivate the habit of leaving people’s past where it belongs when they have genuinely repented and Christ has forgiven them. Galatians 6:1 says “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. I receive the grace to uplift others, in the name of Jesus.

2 I shall be a succourer of many, after the order of Phoebe, in the name of Jesus.

3. Father, give me fervent charity to help the backslidden back to God, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING

4. Judgemental spirit, bitter heart, I am not your candidate, die out of me, in the name of Jesus.

5. Father, fill my heart with love and joy, in the name of Jesus.

6. I shall not fail; I shall not falter in the name of Jesus.

7. Mistakes and errors, waiting to tarnish my testimony, die by fire, in the name of Jesus.

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