MFM Daily Devotional 19 May 2025
TOPIC: Lessons From the Life of Job (VII)
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 24:1-24:44, John 10:22-42, Psalm 116:1-19, Proverbs 15:20-21
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Job 3:1-26 (KJV)
MEMORY VERSE
“Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.”
Luke 19:42 (KJV)
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES: Whenever life throws its jabs at you and you feel like your tongue should dish it all out, let your tears do the speaking rather than your tongue!
PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: I decree that the years of your life shall be glorious, in the name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional 19 May 2025 Message
Birthday is a strategic day in the life of a man. It is a reminder of God’s faithfulness in giving us another chance to live. It reminds us of the need to number our days and apply our hearts to wisdom. Therefore, it should be a day of thanksgiving, worship, sobriety and reflection., not a day to be careless with words or actions.
Job’s birthday was meant to be a happy day for him but because of the trials of life, he cursed this strategic day of his life. He wished he never existed. I understand that Job was in deep pain, but cursing his day didn’t relieve his pain. Nothing should have made him issue a grievous curse on the day of his birth. He should rather have cursed the devil and his problem instead.
READ MFM Daily Devotional 18 May 2025 – Lessons From the Life of Job (VI)
He even suggested that professional curse-makers should help in cursing his birthday (vs 8). He asked his day to be darkness and not be joined to the rest of the year. Probably, his birthday was supposed to be February 30th that was not joined to the rest of the year. Nature can hear us. Days have ears. They can hear and respond accordingly. It could be that his day heard his cursing and retreated forever from the rest of the year.
To curse the day of one’s birth is to be ungrateful to God and to despise the dignity of life. It is suicidal and should not be done. No matter what life throws at us, we must learn to keep our hopes alive. Job 14:7 says “For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease”.
We need to be careful, beloved, about the way we use our mouth, especially when we are angry or in despair. In fact, it is better to keep quiet during such moments rather than talking ourselves into more trouble. There are people that have brought untold hardship on themselves because of self-imposed curses. Our words especially when in pain, are very paramount because those words are coming from the innermost parts of our beings and as such can make or mar us.
We need to learn the habit of commanding our days, including our birthdays. We must learn the habit of laying hands on ourselves and prophesying good things upon our lives. We must learn to programme good things into our days, especially strategic days. It will not be out of place to step aside for a few days of personal retreat just before your next birthday or any other strategic days. This will enable you to hijack the incoming year of your life from the hands of the wicked and also reprogram it for successful outcomes.
MFM DAILY PRAYER POINTS 19 MAY 2025
MORNING
- My birthday, hear the word of the Lord, reject bewitchment, in the name of Jesus.
- Everlasting light of the Lord, shine upon my birthdate, in the name of Jesus.
- Powers, manipulating my birthday against my destiny, you are liars, die, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING
- Any problem that entered into my life on the day I was born, die to your root, in the name of Jesus.
- Powers using my naming ceremony day to trouble my destiny, release me and die, in the name of Jesus.
- O you my day, re-align with my maker to bless my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
- I shall not have a better yesterday. My path shines brighter and brighter and I move from glory to glory, in the name of Jesus.
