SCRIPTURE
Job 42:10 "The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before."
ILLUSTRATION
Once a group of 50 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room. Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5minutes.
Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos. At the end of 5minutes no one could find their own balloon. Now each one was asked to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The speaker began - Exactly this is happening in our lives.
Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness, you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life.
APPLICATION TO PRAYER
So many people never get answers to their prayers and get spiritually because of so much selfishness and self centeredness in their heart.
In the wisdom of God, your own advancement will happen only if you commit yourself to advance somebody else. In other words, you will have to cause someone else to advance so that you will also advance.
BIBLICAL CASES
1st case : It was only after Job prayed for others that God turned his captivity.
Job 42:10 "The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before."
2nd case : It was only after Hannah vowed to give to the Lord her baby boy that God opened her womb.
1 Samuel 1:11 "And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."
1 Samuel 1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
3rd case : It was only after Peter gave out the boat to be used for the advancement of the Gospel that his own advancement took place.
Luke 5:3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. [...] Luke 5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS AND PRAYERS
1) UNTIL YOU LIVE AS A SEED, YOU HAVE NOT YET STARTED LIVING.
MY PRAYER TODAY : PRAY THE LORD TO DESTROY ANY SELFISH MENTALITY BY GRANTING YOU TO LIVE AS A SEED.
2) YOUR WORTH IS NOT IN WHAT YOU HAVE BUT IN WHAT YOU ADD. IT IS NOT IN WHAT YOU EARN OR WHAT YOU GET BUT IN WHAT YOU GIVE.
MY PRAYER TODAY : PRAY THAT THE LORD WILL CHANGE YOUR MINDSET TODAY!
SO SHALL IT BE!
JESUS IS LORD!
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