Streams of Joy 4th November 2024 Daily Devotional Message Written By Pastor Jerry Eze
Streams of Joy 4th November 2024 Daily Devotional (Monday) Message
TOPIC: Who Gets the Glory?
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Acts 16:16-21
“One day, as we were going to the house of prayer, we encountered a young slave girl who had an evil spirit of divination, the spirit of Python. She had earned great profits for her owners by being a fortune-teller.” (Acts 16: 16 TPT)
The damsel in our Focal Scripture was making gains for her masters through her soothsaying. She was fortune telling; she was speaking of the future, but the goal was not to glorify God at all. She saw Paul and Silas and spoke of them as true servants of God, but all that was in a bid to bring glory to the enemy. She was right about the fact that Paul and Silas were true servants of God, but alas, Satan was being glorified.
Friend, as you grow in life, it is important that you are mindful of who gets the glory in whatever is going on around you. Who is getting the glory for that seemingly positive feat you just achieved? Who is getting the glory for the doors and gates that are opening to you? Who is getting the glory in whatever successes you are recording? Who is getting the glory for your rising? Who is getting the glory for the positive things around you?
Always discern who gets the glory in whatever you are involved in. Always discern who is getting glorified by whatever you are celebrating. Always discern who is getting the accolades for your rising. Always discern who is getting the applause for your results and evidence. Always discern who is getting glorified by the events of your life. Always discern whether it is the Lord that is being glorified, or the devil is being glorified.
At some point, Paul seemed to realize that the positive words of the damsel were not for the glory of God, and he shut down the evil spirit. The very moment you realize that anything which seems positive is not for the glory of God, shut it down. Shut down every avenue around you that is giving glory to Satan. Shut down every arrangement that is bringing glory to hell. Shut down every satanic activity that is making hell famous.
You were made to bring glory to God. You were not made to win glory to the enemy.
Isaiah 42: 8 says: “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
Declare With Me: Everything around me that is not bringing glory to God, I shut it down, in Jesus’ name!
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