MFM Daily Devotional 23 December 2023 – Mountain Top Life Devotional
MFM Daily Devotional 23 December 2023, Saturday Mountain Top Life Devotional Message written by Dr. D.K Olukoya
TOPIC: The Rewards of Righteousness (2)
Bible in One Year:
Nahum 1–3; Revelation 14
Memory Verse:
Psalm 34:17 – The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Motivational Quote:
Let righteousness accompany your prayer. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much!
Prophetic Word for Today:
I decree that, henceforth, your prayer will release tremendous results, in the Name of Jesus.
Fire Scripture:
1 Kings 18:22-40
MESSAGE: The second reward of righteousness is that it enhances answered prayers. The Bible says that the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and His ears are ever open to their cry. It also says that the righteous cries and the Lord heareth him and delivereth him from all his afflictions.
It adds that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
What a privilege! It was to the righteous that God spoke when He said that while ye are yet speaking He would hear and while you are asking He would answer. Conversely, the prayer of the unrighteous is an abomination to God.
The contest on Mount Carmel that pitched Prophet Elijah against 450 prophets of Baal is a good case in point here. The prophets of Baal made their altar and prayed to Baal for several hours but there was no answer. When Elijah made his own altar and prayed to the God of Israel, fire fell from heaven.
There were two great results:
First, the prophets of Baal fled from the mountain but Elijah ordered that they be pursued and they were all killed.
Second, all Israelites bowed in worship and honour of the only true God, the God of Elijah. Hence, Elijah saved the whole nation from apostasy.
Similarly, Daniel was a prayer warrior extraordinaire. God answered his prayers in the lions’ den and the beasts could not hurt him. On one occasion, when he was interceding for the nation of Israel, the prince of Persia waylaid and delayed his answer, yet by sustained prayer, God sent angelic reinforcement and the principality was dislodged and Daniel’s answer released.
The force of righteousness puts a prayer warrior in the class of God and makes him a mysterious wonder. That is why Moses could part the Red Sea. It is the reason that Joshua could command the sun to be still. It is why the apostles could raise the dead and heal all manner of sicknesses and diseases. It is the reason they were effective and successful soul winners.
The dividends of righteousness are inestimable!
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
1. Father, I thank You for the gift of righteousness, in the Name of Jesus.
2. Father, let righteousness exalt me and my nation, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Father, make me a righteous prayer warrior, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Father, give me the dividends of righteousness, in the Name of Jesus.
5. Father, make me unstoppable, in the Name of Jesus.
6. Enemies of righteousness in my life, die, in the Name of Jesus.
7. I declare that sin will not have dominion over me, in the Name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional 23 December 2023 Mountain Top Life ©2023 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide).
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