TOPIC: Say No To Backsliding (3)
MEMORY VERSE
Hebrews 3:12 – “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
Winners don’t quit and quitters don’t win.
PROPHETIC WORD
I decree that, as the Lord lives, you will never go back to the world, in the Name of Jesus.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Daniel 3–4; 1 John 5
FIRE SCRIPTURE: John 6:60-66
Easy-to-Read Version
Many Followers Leave Jesus
60 When Jesus’ followers heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”
61 Jesus already knew that his followers were complaining about this. So he said, “Is this teaching a problem for you?
62 Then what will you think when you see the Son of Man going up to where he came from?
63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The body is of no value for that. But the things I have told you are from the Spirit, so they give life.
64 But some of you don’t believe.” (Jesus knew the people who did not believe. He knew this from the beginning. And he knew the one who would hand him over to his enemies.)
65 Jesus said, “That is why I said, ‘Anyone the Father does not help to come to me cannot come.’”
66 After Jesus said these things, many of his followers left and stopped following him.
MFM Daily Devotional – 6 December 2022 MESSAGE
The spirit of backsliding is on rampage and many are falling away by the day. So far, we have learnt some of the danger signals of backsliding. We will look at some more today.
One danger signal of backsliding we should not ignore is unbelieving attitude. Without faith, it is impossible to please God and have a successful walk with Him. Faith is having courageous trust in God and His ability to do all things. That is why backsliding is synonymous with losing faith or falling away from faith. This will not be your portion, in the Name of Jesus.
The Scriptures have instances of unbelief and condemn all of them. Jude 1:5 says, “The Lord, having saved the people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not” (NKJV). Similarly, concerning some disciples of Jesus, John 6:60, 66 revealed this, “Many disciples said, this is a hard saying; who can hear it? Many went back, and walked no more with him” (NKJV). Heed God’s admonition in Hebrews 3:12, “Beware lest any man spoil you through unbelief, in departing from the living God” (NKJV). Arise, and pray unbelief out of your life!
READ: Kenneth Copeland Devotional – 6th December 2022 | Your Children Released From Captivity
Another danger signal of backsliding is hardening one’s heart to the truth. The Bible says that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Jesus is the Truth. The Word of God is the Truth, but it is the truth you know, believe and live by that can set you free. When a person rejects the truth, he or she has chosen the path of falsehood and darkness. Such a person has ears that are dull of hearing and eyes that have been closed (Matthew 13:15). He or she will eventually backslide.
Double mindedness and wavering constitute another danger signal of backsliding. We have earlier established that you need faith to please God and that unbelief causes backsliding. The kind of faith that can help to prevent backsliding is unwavering faith. It is the kind of faith that Joshua and Caleb exhibited, not grasshopper kind of faith.
The Bible says that a double minded man is unstable in his ways (James 1:6-8).
Similarly, double-minded and wavering people are “those who did not set their hearts aright and their spirits were not right” (Psalm 78:8).
MFM Daily Devotional – 6 December 2022 PRAYER POINTS
MORNING
1. Spirit of unbelief, depart from me, in the Name of Jesus.
2. Father, make me a lover and doer of the truth, in the Name of Jesus.
3. Father, take double-mindedness and wavering away from my life, in the Name of Jesus.
EVENING
4. Father, give me steadfast, unwavering and enduring faith, in the Name of Jesus.
5. I declare that my faith will not fail, in the Name of Jesus.
6. Agents of backsliding assigned against my life, die, in the Name of Jesus.
7. I reject the path of falsehood and darkness, in the Name of Jesus.
MFM Daily Devotional – 6 December 2022 Mountain Top Life ©2022 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Worldwide).
