Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 24, Day 4
Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
TOPIC: YOU ARE REPLACEABLE 4:
PRIDE BRINGS REPLACEMENT
Memory Verse: 1 Kings 19:18
“18 Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Bible Reading: Esther 1:10-12, 19, 2:16-17
“10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,
11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to show her beauty to the people and the officials, for she was beautiful to behold.
12 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs; therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him.”
“19 If it pleases the king, let a royal decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will not be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.”
“16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17 The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.”
Prov. 29:23,
“23 A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
Prov. 16:18,
“18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.”
James 4:6,
“6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
The fastest way to being replace is pride. The easiest way for God to do away with anyone is through pride. He resist, meaning, God avoid, reject, refuse the proud around Him. What is pride? It’s seeing yourself higher, better and greater than others whom you were once equal or who helped you up. It’s overrating yourself compare to others when you’re not what you claim yet. Using your temporary position against others. It’s a way to become an enemy of God.
Vashti became a Queen because she was married to the King but she felt she has been made, she’s now the Queen and can make her decisions on her own. She rejected the command of the King which was as a result of Pride. She failed to realised that, the one who made her a Queen can also replace her with a slave. She was under the control of the title, “Queen” and the same title was removed and placed on Esther as her replacement.
Humility, on the other hand, is a way to replace the proud. “He gives grace to the humble.” Are you influenced by your position wealth, age, wisdom or property? Listen, your replacement is already prepared waiting for the day of ordination. Remember God can’t create who He can’t replace. You talk to anyone anyhow, watch out, that person might even be your replacement.
My Father and My God, subdue the spirit of pride and enable the spirit of humility in me, In Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
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