Open Heaven 10 August 2020: [Monday] – Stop The Envy
STOP THE ENVY – Monday August
10th 2020
Memorise: A sound heart is the life of the
flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30
Read: 1st 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:-
Always
wonder at those who envy others. Why are you envying someone else?
Open Heaven 10 August 2020 – Stop The Envy
That
fellow’s success does not hinder yours. What God wants to do for you cannot be
hindered by what He is doing for someone else. Many 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 on
praying and working 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.
Open Heaven 10 August 2020: [Monday] – Stop The Envy
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
somebody 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 gain tremendously from the latter.
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice…”
Romans 12:15
Open Heaven 10 August 2020 Monday: Action Point
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 that fellow. When
the devil see that whenever he suggests envy to you, you respond by praying for
the fellow, he will stop. You also cannot resent someone who 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.
Action Point
Be truthful to yourself; if there is any fellow
you envy, pray for that person now.
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,
one of the largest evangelical Churches in
the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
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