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TOPIC: RESTITUTION FOR THEFT/ STOLEN ITEMS, TREACHERY, AND EMBEZZLEMENT.

HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE HOREMOW

DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR.

DATE: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2026.

TOPIC: RESTITUTION FOR THEFT/ STOLEN ITEMS, TREACHERY, AND EMBEZZLEMENT. 

TEXT: JUDGES 17:1-4 
1. And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
2. And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
3. And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
4. Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

KEY VERSE: JUDGES 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. 

Micah had stolen the money of his mother. For how long he kept it, we are not aware, but one thing was clear; the mother's curse. She probably lifted up her hands to the sun and said, "There is a God in the sky, there is a God that knows. Whoever took my money, God make him blind. God make him cripple, not only himself, also his children shall be vagabonds in the earth; God take away sleep from the eyes of that person; God that money shall become stomach ulcer for him." 

Micah must have heard the cursing and seen that there is danger in stealing. The money will finish but the judgment or the curses will remain. The judgment for that was so great, and Micah said, "Mother, the eleven hundred shekels of silver that was stolen of which l heard you cursing, l stolen it." If it was shameful to confess this, he would bear the shame and save his life. The mother turned the curse to blessing for Micah. She said, "Oh blessed be thou of the Lord! My son, l had consecrated that money to the Lord."  

That money you stole from that person; do you know, it is the Lord's money? Those things you people are stealing from the Government, do you know it is the Lord's money meant to build hospitals, provide drugs, construct roads, build schools and do many things that will bring peace and progress to the society of God? 

lt is the Lord's money, therefore, Micah restored that money. It is people's salary but you embezzled it. As Micah restored that money back to the mother, do likewise! And do you know that Micah's mother gave the money back to him because of the Lord? Which means there is blessing in restitution. 

In Abimelech's case, if he did not restore Abraham's wife, God said, he was a dead man. Barrenness had entered into his family and to be healed, restitution had to be done. Micah had to do restitution to be free from the curse. hanging on him.  

Thought for the day. There is blessing in doing restitution.  

Song for the day. I have decided to follow Jesus, no going back. 

Bible reading for the day: Acts 1-3 

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