ODM Daily Devotional For Champions July 5 2018
TOPIC: HUMILITY: AN ASSET IN FRANCE
BASIC SCRIPTURE: 1 PETER 5: 1-10
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, is one of the new POLITICAL WONDERS in the world right now! His new political party defeated the country’s two well established parties in the 2017 elections. In electing Macron, the French people showed that they were willing for a shift in thinking and ideology.
ODM Daily Devotional For Champions July 5 2018
He has pledged to retrain workers, give greater freedom to schools to experiment in ways that would teach critical thinking. Speaking at a World Economic Forum earlier this year, he said: “In France it was forbidden to fail and forbidden to succeed.” But looking at that mentality from a positive angle, French statesman, Georges Clemenceau, once put it this way, “Life gets interesting if you fail because it means we’ve surpassed ourselves.”
Macron has been credited as one who represents the latest model of what is called “failure-tolerant leadership.” At the heart of this philosophy is an attribute – HUMILITY – which Macron has made to be an asset! He says that leaders who are failure-tolerant show humility and compassion in allowing people to learn from dead-end experiments in order to come up with better concepts of success! To succeed in life especially after some setbacks, you need the virtue of patience and humility. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less!
ODM Daily Devotional For Champions July 5 2018
Pride is about my glory; humility is about God’s glory! 2 Chronicles 7:14 says: “If my people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” When you are humble enough in life, then your land (YOUR LIFE/MINISTRY) can receive GREATER GRACE! This was what helped Joshua to recover after they were defeated by the small tribe of Ai in Joshua Chapter 7.
Hear Mother Teresa: “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” Today we have read that God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (1 Peter 5:5). Always remember: Pride is about my glory; humility is about God’s glory! (Prepare for the 14 days fasting starting from July 8th-21st, 2018. Get “War Against Haman – 13” write-up here or booklet now! It contains the 14-day fasting prayers. Start Praying: Prayers Just Before Any Fasting Programme On The Last Page Of , “War Against Haman- 13” DAILY till July 8th.
PRAYER POINTS: Take Song 1: My hope is built…
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. Father, give me the grace to be more humble in Jesus name.
3. Re-dedicate your life onceagain to God. Pledge moreloyalty!
4. Pray about today seriously as led now. See pages 7-9.
