Mountain Top Life DAILY DEVOTIONAL
FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: TEMPERANCE 1
6TH , AUGUST 2022
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 22, 1 Chronicles 23, 1 Corinthians
2:6-16, Psalm 91:9-16
FIRE SCRIPTURE: Galatians
5:21-26
21 envy, [a]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you
beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who
practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 [b]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh
with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one
another.
MEMORY VERSE:
“He that
hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and
without walls.” – Proverbs
25:28
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
A man who has conquered self will have no problem conquering his world.
PRAISE WORSHIP: Take a worship song as led by the HolySpirit.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY:
YOU WILL
NOT BECOME THE ENEMY OF YOUR DESTINY, IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
THE MESSAGE:
Temperance, simply put, means self-control. It carries the sense
of someone who has mastered his passions and desires as well as the person who
effectively controls his sensual cravings. From world history and biblical
perspective, the fact has been established that those who conquered their
worlds are men and women who have the virtue of self-control. That is, people
who have first conquered themselves. It takes self-control to succeed virtually
in every area of life. Many great souls whose names adorn the biblical hall of
fame, were men who made TEMPERANCE their watchword.
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Beloved, I believe you know that those who squandered the
investment of God upon their lives; those who broke the heart of God, grieved
the Holy Spirit and made heaven weep were men who cast the virtue of
self-control out of the equation of their lives. As it happened then; so it is
now. Any Christian who lacks self-control is a pain to the heart of the Master.
Many of the sins and iniquities that we see in Christendom today are directly
linked to lack of self-control.
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It was lack of self-control that made Samson end as a victim of life. Gahazi lost glorious ministry on the dark altar of greed and covetousness, simply because he lacked self-control. King Saul failed because of the lack of self-control. Judas Iscariot ended shamefully after experiencing the power of the world to come because his life was void of self-control. Demas turned back to the world after a meritorious Christian service with the great Apostle Paul because his self-control suffered a ship wreck and his destiny became damaged permanently. I believe you can now understand the shame, sorrow and stigma that lack of temperance can cause a person.
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The Bible says anyone
who lacks self-control is like a city whose wall has broken down. This lack of
protection will allow any evil to easily gain access. Temperance is a wall of
protection against satanic invasion of one's life. Do you have self-control?
PRAYER POINTS:
MORNING
1. Every work of the flesh reigning in my life, die by fire, in
the name of Jesus.
2. Holy Ghost fire, deliver me from the weakness assigned to
rubbish my life, in the name of Jesus.
3.
Blood of Jesus, saturate my life, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Grip of darkness
upon my life, break, in the name of Jesus.
5. No weakness shall
send me to hell fire, in the name of Jesus.
6. My life, receive
fresh fire, in the name of Jesus.
7. O Lord, keep me
standing to the end, in the name of Jesus.
DO
HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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©2022 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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