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Beware Lest Praise Singers Unseat You
Monday May 13th
Text: Daniel 6: 5 - 9
Key verse: Habakkuk 2: 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
These people deceived the king. Praise singers! A lot of these people who have left Holiness Movement were praise singers. They gave wonderful praises of what God is doing. Glory! Nothing compares with this. These messages are very great! They were trying to turn the king to pride. If you are not a righteous preacher, praise singers will unseat you. If you want to know whether a tube has a puncture, pump air into it, then the puncture will be clearly seen. Remember that Jezebel wrote letters for promotion of Naboth in order to destroy him.
This praise is to see your mistake; to lead you to a mistake which they will use against you. It worked on Darius. Did they have any need to exalt him; to say we make you a god for one month because of your special administration? “You have won the medal. We have looked at the kings of other nations. We have heard about them. In fact, we sent to rate them. You are the highest in the world now and therefore, our decision is to exalt you and make you the final authority for one month. So, for thirty days let nobody pray to any god or any man but all prayers everywhere should be to you. If anyone disobeys, let him be cast into the dens of the lions.”
Darius thought he was a great achiever. No! They are buying you to kill the righteous. Do not be carried away, proud or puffed up by human praises. These praises people are giving has no meaning in my life; it does not move me because better is the end of a thing than the beginning. What is meaningful is that which come from above, not from men. Some are sincere, yet give all the praises to God. If you are sincere, let God collect the glory. If you are hypocritical, let it fall to the ground and not to my eyes. That is a righteous king! Righteous preacher! Make sure it is like that with you so you are not captured by deceitful praise like Darius.
Thought for the day: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning.
Song for the day: All glory, glory, glory to the Lord, all glory …
Bible reading for the day: 2 Chronicles 21-24
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