MFM Devotional 16 February 2024 || Enemies of the Family – Envy

MFM Daily Devotional 16th February 2024 – Mountain Top Life Devotional

MFM Devotional 16 February 2024, Friday Mountain Top Life Devotional Message written by Dr. D.K Olukoya

TOPIC: 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 – ENVY

𝔹𝕀𝔹𝕃𝔼 𝕀ℕ 𝕆ℕ𝔼 𝕐𝔼𝔸ℝ: Numbers 22-24, 1 Corinthians 6-8

𝔽𝕀ℝ𝔼 𝕊ℂℝ𝕀ℙ𝕋𝕌ℝ𝔼: Genesis 4:1-11

𝕄𝔼𝕄𝕆ℝ𝕐 𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕊𝔼:
Numbers 12:10 – “And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.”

𝕄𝕆𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕆ℕ𝔸𝕃 ℚ𝕌𝕆𝕋𝔼𝕊:
Everyone is blessed. It behoves a man to discover his area of gifting and maximise it.

ℙℝ𝔸𝕀𝕊𝔼 & 𝕎𝕆ℝ𝕊ℍ𝕀ℙ

ℙℝ𝕆ℙℍ𝔼𝕋𝕀ℂ 𝕎𝕆ℝ𝔻 𝔽𝕆ℝ 𝕋𝕆𝔻𝔸𝕐:
𝗕𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦, 𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗩𝗬 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬, 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦.

MFM Devotional 16 February 2024 | 𝕄𝔼𝕊𝕊𝔸𝔾𝔼

In our Fire Scripture today, we can see how terrible envy can be. It can make a man to kill his own brother. In other parts of the Bible, we see envy at work in other families leading to serious problems. The brothers of Joseph almost killed him also out of envy. Envy amongst brethren is a sign that the devil has come in and is at work in the family. In Numbers chapter 12, Aaron and Miriam got envious of their kid brother, Moses, and they spoke against him for marrying the Ethiopia woman.

Envy makes a man to always want to be like another person. It is an evil that drive that makes a person reach for what belongs to another person. The envious person has no peace because he is always bothered about what is going on in the lives of other people. He or she wants to be like the other man or woman, not giving attention to his own gifts and talents.

The envy person never appreciates anything about himself or herself, no matter how good or noble. Envy drives men to wickedness. An envious person can kill or destroy just to get at the person he is envious of. It is indeed a very bad spirit.

Envy tears families apart. One person possessed with the spirit of envy in the family can wreak havoc in that family because he will go to any length to bring harm to anyone he sees as a threat to his wicked ambition even if it means going diabolical. Breadwinners, shining stars, destiny lifters, and goal- getters have been either pulled down or destroyed by envious elements in some families. The brothers of Joseph would have preferred that he died than live to lift up the family but for divine intervention that kept him to fulfil the purpose of God for his life.

Envy succeeded in making Cain to kill Abel because the family did not stop it (Genesis 4:1-16). It reared its ugly head between Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25:19-34, 27:1-45), Leah and Rachel (Genesis 29:1-35, 30:1-24), Joseph and his brothers, the older brother and the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). Godly families must rise against the spirit of envy in their midst in order to avert the dire consequences that can arise from it.

ℙℝ𝔸𝕐𝔼ℝ ℙ𝕆𝕀ℕ𝕋𝕊:
𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆
1. I bind and cast out every spirit of envy assigned against my family, in the name of Jesus.
2. I crush to pieces every serpent and scorpion of envy working against my family, in the name of Jesus.
3. O Lord, deliver my family members from the spirit of envy, in the name of Jesus.

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆
4. I recover every blessing that we have lost as a result of envy, in the name of Jesus.
5. I destroy every seed of envy sowed in my heart, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every evil leg that has walked into my family, I cut you off, in the name of Jesus.
7. My family shall arise and shine, in the name of Jesus.

MFM Devotional 16th February 2024 Mountain Top Life ©2024 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide)