The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 2 August 2025
Daily Fountain Devotional 2 August 2025 TOPIC: Provoking God’s Generational Blessings
SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Samuel 7:4-17(NKJV)
7:4. But it happened that night that the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
7:5. “Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Would you build a house for Me to dwell in?
7:6. “For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but have moved about in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7:7. “Wherever I have moved about with all the children of Israel, have I ever spoken a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’ ” ‘
7:8. “Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people, over Israel.
7:9. “And I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who [are] on the earth.
7:10. “Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously,
7:11. “since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that He will make you a house.
7:12. ” When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
7:13. “He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
7:14. “I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
7:15. “But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
7:16. “And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever.” ‘ ”
7:17. According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
Daily Fountain Devotional 2 August 2025 STUDY:
In our days, we must remind ourselves that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. David’s devotion to build a house for God sparked off divine and sublime provocations. So, though God would not allow David to build a house for him, David’s devotion to God had already aroused God to bless the household of David from generation to generation. It pays to be devoted and to serve Jesus wholeheartedly. God invoked blessings upon David and will still do more upon anyone who would build him or herself to serve and be devoted to Christ Jesus.
Such a person will be established and will have his/her generation established by God as holy people. God will have a paternal relationship with that person and his/her generation will receive God’s pardon and mercies. No one has ever served God from the heart and hands that was abandoned by God. We must learn to give ourselves first to the Lord and then all our resources for his Service. God surely will ‘retaliate.’
PRAYER: Lord, I commit myself to your ways and pleasures, bless me indeed, Amen.
MEDITATION: God says “One day, you will see My face and My name will be on your forehead. Revelation 22:4”