Topic: Stop The Envy
Daily Personal Confession
My life is founded on Christ my Saviour, and in Him I dwell in safety and security. By the power in the Name of Jesus, I come against the activities of satan and his cohorts, affirming that their plans to wreak havoc and unleash terror in my life and health are overturned in Jesus Name. Amen.
Memorize: A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. – Proverbs 14:30
Bible Reading: 1 Peter 2:1-2 (KJV)
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
MESSAGE:
I always wonder at those who envy others. Why are you envying someone else?
That fellow’s success does not hinder yours.
What God wants to do for you does not hinder what He is doing for the someone else. My blessings cannot hinder yours and yours cannot hinder mine.
In fact, the only way my blessings can hinder yours is if you are envious of me.
If instead of concentrating and praying for your own blessings, you put your attention on envying someone else’s, how will you be blessed? Job 5:2 says that envy slays a silly fellow.
Instead of envying someone who has been blessed by God, why don’t you seek to learn from him/her?
Note however, that you cannot learn from someone you resent.
Students usually find it difficult to learn from teachers they don’t like.
If someone else is making more sales than you for example, you have two choices; either to envy the person – gossip about them and end up making yourself sad or you rejoice with him/her – get close to them and learn their success strategies.
You lose from the former and again tremendously from the latter.
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice…” – Romans 12:15
God’s standard is that you rejoice with those rejoicing.
If you find yourself unhappy when you see a particular person rejoicing then you need to check yourself.
Whenever you feel envious of someone, make sure you pray for the fellow.
When the devil sees that whenever he suggests envy to you, you respond by praying for the fellow, he will stop.
You also cannot resent someone you pray for. Bringing yourself to pray for that person will help you get over the envy.
Then, you can begin to love the person genuinely.
Stop the envy; it kills.
Monday Action Point:
Be truthful to yourself; if there is any fellow you envy, pray for that person now.
PRAYER POINTS
Thank You, Father, for the gift of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to the body of Christ.
Father, let every spirit of disobedience and self-will, in my life, be consumed by Your fire, in Jesus’ name.
Father, take away every attribute related to envy out of my life and household, in Jesus’ name
DAILY DECLARATIONS
This Monday, the presence of God will go with me and my household in Jesus’ name.
I cancel the effect of evil and false doctrine in and around me, in Jesus’ name
I come against every spirit of envy in me and my household, we shall continue to rejoice with what God has blessed us with, in Jesus’ name
I terminate evil report over me and all that concerns me henceforth, in Jesus’ name
I decree I will never deny God, His power, His name or be ungrateful to Him, in Jesus’ name
Bible in One Year: Jeremiah 14-17
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