MEMORY VERSE: For
ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing,
he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought
it carefully with tears. Hebrews 12:17
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Amos 5-9
One of the plans of God for your life is to increase you. Psalm 115:14 says, “The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children”.
God wants you to have the good things of life. There is no earthly
father who does not want his children to prosper or increase. If earthly
fathers, being sinful, wants their children to increase or prosper, how
much more our Father who hath in heaven? 3 John 2 says,” Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”.
It is one thing for God to want to increase you, it is another thing to
be in receipt of that increase. One of the reasons why many of us are
experiencing the opposite of increase, despite all what God is doing in
our lives is because we are robbing God. Malachi 3:8 says, “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.” One cannot rob God and expect to prosper. That’s impossible.
Another
reason why many are experiencing the opposite of increase is because
they are careless with the things He has given to them. Many of us are
not managing the resources God has put under our care well. Friend, how
are you managing the resources that God has put under your care? How are
you managing your time? How are you managing your own personal finance?
Are you an impulse shopper? Are you a spendthrift? The fact that you
have money does not mean you have to spend it. If you don’t manage what
God has given to you very well, you will lose them. There are two basic
types of losses. They are retrievable losses and irretrievable losses.
If you misplace your wallet, you can find it. If you lose money in a
business venture, you can make it back. Most material things are
retrievable if you lose them. Although many a time, the effort required
to get them back are so much that it is better that one did not lose
them in the first place. Some things are irretrievable e.g. one’s
birthright. Isaac exchanged his for food. Hebrew 12:17 says, “For ye
know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he
was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it
carefully with tears.” Although he repented, cried and all that, he
did not get it back. There are some mistakes that your repentance cannot
correct. It is just like a lady who losses her virginity before
marriage. If she confesses her sin and ask for forgiveness, the Lord
will forgive her, but what is lost is lost. As such, young woman be
careful. Had Joseph fornicated with Potiphar’s wife, he would never have
become a prime minister in Egypt. Samson’s hair grew back but his eyes
didn’t. That was an irretrievable loss. One of the reasons why we lose
things is because we don’t value them. Sir, hope you value your spouse.
Ma, hope you value your spouse. Bro and Sister, hope you value your
pastor. Pastor, hope you value your members. Anyone who does not value
what he or she has is in danger of loosing them. Some of our sisters
have lost good men because they were proving hard to get to men. Those
men are gone forever but you can ask for mercy today and the Lord will
bring another good man.
PRAYER POINT: Father, please have mercy.
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