CHANNELS OF FULFILMENT DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR MAY 25, 2022 (ESCAPING LOWLINESS)
Topic: Escaping Lowliness.
Text: (Isaiah 40 vs. 1-10)
MESSAGE
Verse 4 of today’s scripture says, “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain (KJV). “Fill in the valleys, level off the hills, smooth out the nuts, clear out the rocks. Then God’s bright glory will shine and everyone will see it” (MSG). It takes a levelled mind to escape lowness. God was saying, “Fill in the valleys”. Which Valley exist in your mind.
There are brethren and people hopping for the low things of life. How can you be praying for your greatness and you are hopping for lowness? The solution to that problem is not packing into a smaller house or going to a cheaper shop. If you start finding it difficult to pay for some bill you have been paying comfortably and you reduced yourself to a lesser one believing that’s the one you can now comfortably handle; someday you may realise that even the smaller one is becoming difficult to handle. The problem isn’t about adjusting your location but adjusting your mind with dogged seeking of God. Never accept any advice that tell you to live a reduced life.
There is no testimony with reduction except God is working out His plan with you. There is a spirit behind lowness. That’s same with the spirit of poverty. Your life will definitely run based on the speed your desire and passion runs.
It is good to manage yourself according to what you earn and also make arrangement of saving from what you earn no matter how small. It is also very important you plan before embarking on any project. God is saying to someone it is not my will you possess a low mind. By right you merit that which is good and great in Christ Jesus not to go low. “Fill in the valley”. You cannot reach a level in life which your mind has not gotten to.
You cannot have what you have not desired before. You are trying to tell people about where you are seeing yourself and they are trying to give you the definition of yourself according the knowledge of the low background they had about you and you accepted.
“If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can poison your life” (Bryant McGill). One amazing thing you should digest today is that everyone who became great, has a very small background before.
If the background was not low, it is sometimes not greatness. When Bishop Oyedepo entered his first Cathedral that could house less than a thousand persons or exact. Bishop Abioye while praying said, “God I thank you for you have brought us to our pavilion”.
Bishop Oyedepo shouted from his seat saying, “No! This is not our pavilion but our beginning”, between 1990 – 2000 he dedicated the highest auditorium in the world. Grow up and refuse any acidic virus that limits vision and speed. Don’t you think that soon that your small business will be a big company? Don’t you also think as a Pastor that you will soon pastor to the amazement of your generation by producing wonders. Grow your vision High.
Prayer Points:
- Thank God for His greatness.
- Jesus arise and do for me what no man could have done before.