MFM Daily Devotional 26 April 2024

TOPIC: Love Not the World (I)

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 11, 1 Chronicles 12, 1 Chronicles13, Matthew 23, Matthew 24

FIRE SCRIPTURE: 1 John 2:15-17 
¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

MEMORY VERSE
 “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is he enemy of God.”
James 4:4(KJV)

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES:
You cannot serve two masters you’re either for the Lord or against Him. Make a choice today.

PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.

PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY: Receive the power to live a righteous life above the world and its vanities in the name of Jesus.

MFM Daily Devotional 26 April 2024 MESSAGE

The Bible tells us that we are in the world but we are not of the world. It means that as citizens of heaven, we cannot afford to conduct ourselves like the people of this world. There must be a clear difference!

In today’s Fire Scripture, we are warned as Christians not to love the world and the things that are in the world. Those who love the world will perish with the world. Loving the world indicates that you are consumed by the things that are in the world and not the things of the kingdom. You cannot love the world and yet love the Father. John went on to tell us what is in the world; this can be categorised into three, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. They are properties of the world and not of the Father. Today’s memory verse says that friendship with the world is enmity with God. You either love the world, and you don’t love God; or you love God, but not love the world. You can’t sit on the fence!

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What is the lust of the eyes? Lust is generally an evil craving or desire. The lust of the eyes has to do with your visual power, the temptation to see and covet what you have seen. It can also be regarded as the negative impact of what you see or watch on your mind. When you fail to discipline your eyes, it will be attracted to scenes, persons and things that can easily pollute or corrupt your mind and steal your peace. Hence, you must be careful! Whatever evil attraction through your eyes capable of polluting your spiritual life and destroy the relationship between you and God must be avoided.

Do you covet another man’s possessions? Are you greedy of gains? Are you promiscuous in your looks? Job said, “I have made a covenant with my eyes, not to look at a maiden.” It means he did not want to look at a woman in a way that it would bring lust to his mind. He is an example of a man who crucified his eyes. Eve looked and got hooked to the forbidden fruit. David’s sin of adultery started with a strange look at Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah.

MFM DAILY PRAYER POINTS 26TH APRIL 2024

MORNING
1. Father, deliver me from the spirit of worldliness, in the name of Jesus.
2. I overcome the lust of the eyes, by the power in the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.
3. I overcome the lust of the flesh, by the power in the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. I overcome the pride of life, by the power in the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus.
5. The agenda of satan to pollute my eyes, die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Spirit of backsliding, I am not your candidate, die, in the name of Jesus.
7. I declare that I am in the world nut bot of the world, in the name of Jesus.