YOU ARE VALID FOR GOOD

Bible Texts: Acts 19:12-14, Rom.15:2, Pro.16:7, 2Tim.2:4, Rom.12:21, Jn.10:10, Matt.5:14-16, Eph.5:25, Col.3:9, 2Cor.13:4-8, Eph.6:4, Ps.24:1-3

In today’s teaching, I would want to liken you to a cheque that is used to effect payment. If you are familiar with how banks work, the phrase “good for payment” will not sound strange. Now let me explain briefly how it works. If you have an account with a bank or you are walk-in-customer who wants to cash a cheque, the bank officer will want to validate the cheque. The cheque instrument will pass from one officer or process to another until it gets to the final person who authorizes. This final officer verifies and confirms that the cheque is good for payment. Only then will you be paid. All these processes are carried out by the bank to ensure that only the rightful person is paid.

This is how your life should be as the godly husbandman. As the husbandman, God has committed into your hands your wife and children and He wants to approve you as the godly man, godly husband and godly father. Your wife and children and the world must validate that you are indeed the good and godly husbandman.

Reading from Acts Chapter 19, the Bible gives a clear understanding that your wife and children know whether you are the godly husbandman or not, and satan even knows too. Your family members and friends must also know. You cannot pretend. It is either you are the godly husbandman or you are not.

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them. Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits in the name of the Lord Jesus,saying, we adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew and chief of the priests, which did so. AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW, BUT WHO ARE YOU (Acts 19:12-14). The evil spirit validates that Jesus is Christ indeed. Others also testified also. So, the question that you must ask today is this. Do my wife and children know me as the good and godly shepherd? Can those around me testify that I am the good and godly leader in my sheepfold? Can God testify that I am like Him to my wife, children and the world? You must not concern yourself with how much entitlement you deserve from your wife and children, rather you must focus on what you must do to be validated as the godly man, husband and father.

There are things you must do to be validated and be approved by God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, your wife, children and the world. The first is that you must allow Jesus Christ and His instructions to increase in you. The more you allow Him to have His way in your life and in all that you do, the quicker you become like Him in all ways. Secondly, you must give yourself to the demands of prayer with fasting. These spiritual exercises will help you access the power of God to do His perfect will and live a life well pleasing to God, your wife, children the market place of life. Live to be approved and validated by God.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, make me a living testimony to my wife and children and the world around me.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, help me to discipline my appetite so that I can give myself to spiritual responsibilities.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to live under Your influence all the days of my life.

FAITH CONFESSION

I am good for payment for the good of my wife and children because I am under the influence of Jesus Christ, the perfect example of the good and godly husbandman in Jesus Name. Amen

Force of Change 2022/2023: 70 Days of Fasting with Prayers

• PRAYER FOR HEALTH AND VITALITY (17^TH JAN TO 26^TH JAN 2023)

2Kgs.20:5, 2Chro.7:14, Ps.60:2, Is.57:19, Jer.17:14, Gen.20:17, Ex.15:26, Ps.147:3, Is.30:26, Mk.9:35, Gen.43:28, Pro.4:22, Jer.33:6, 3Jn:2, Ps.16:24, Lk.6:18

Day 40

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, hasten the healing process of every member of my family who is recuperating
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, contend with every power of darkness working against my physical well-being.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, establish my health and wellness in the year 2023

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Jesus Christ is Lord over all.

Bro. Ebenezer O. Igure

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