MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE, MFM DAILY DEVOTIONAL {VOLUME 9, JAN-DEC}, TUESDAY 14 MAY 2024, TOPIC:- LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF JOCHEBED (4)

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

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MFM Topic, Tue 14 May 24: lessons from the life of Jochebed (4)

Are you a Bridge that links people together or a Wall that divides?

Welcome to MFM Devotional, 14 May 24

PRAISE & WORSHIP:

I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.” Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.

2
My heart has no desire to stay.
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.

3
I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.

4
I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground.”

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
2 Chronicles 36; Ezra 1, Ezra 2; Luke 15, Luke 16

MEMORY VERSE: Proverbs 25: 28-“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
If  can control yourself, you can master and control anything.

11 MAY PROPHETIC WORD:
Receive the grace for self-control, in the name of Jesus.

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Exodus 2:1-10
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

² And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

³ And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

⁴ And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

⁵ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

⁶ And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

⁷ Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

⁸ And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.

⁹ And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.

¹⁰ And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

TUE MAY 14 MESSAGE:

Jochebed had self-control and was highly disciplined. Can you imagine the level of self-control Jochebed demonstrated when she stood in the front of Pharaoh’s daughter and accepted the care and the wages for her very son whom Pharaoh wanted to destroy?

I don’t know if I could have done it. The glee on my face would have would have made Pharaoh’s daughter to know I was the child’s mother. I would have been so giddy maybe Pharaoh’s daughter would have thought I am crazy and ask Miriam to get her another woman to take care of Moses.

It takes certain presence of mind to exhibit grace under pressure and Jochebed had it. She raised her son as another woman’s child and then, at the appointed time, she handed over Moses to Pharaoh’s daughter. That took a whole lot of self-control and discipline.

Her self-control preserved her life because if she had not controlled herself in the presence of the king’s daughter, she would risk being killed alongside her family and especially the baby she was trying to protect.

You never can master anything, if you have not mastered yourself. Self-control is key and not just for getting to the top but remaining at the top. A lot of people have lost their lives untimely due to lack of self-control.

Before you can lead others, you have to lead yourself first. We need pray this virtue and fruit of the Spirit into our lives. We need it. Most of the chaos in some homes and even the world is borne out of lack of self-control.

When Jochebed faced her greatest fear, she didn’t panic. She made a plan and boldly executed that plan and God backed her up. She knew that as long as she trusted Jehovah, she had nothing to fear.

Likewise, we have nothing to fear when we learn to rely on God. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us-including overcoming our greatest fears. “For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall be be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not,” Isaiah 30:15.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. My Father, break me down and remould me, in the name of Jesus.

2. Power to control myself, come upon me, in the name of Jesus.

3. Father, work on my characters till Your life is formed in me,  in the name of Jesus.

EVENING

4. O God my Father, give me the second touch of Your Power, in the name of Jesus.

5. In the time of my visitation, I shall not fail, in the name of Jesus.

6. I shall not miss my timing,  in the name of Jesus.

7. Father! Increase my faith in You,  in the name of Jesus.

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