Our Daily Manna for Today 10 February 2022 Thursday

Topic: THE LITTLE BOY AND THE ANGER TRAP – 1

BASIC SCRIPTURE:

1 CHRONICLES 21:17-30 (KJV)

17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord.

20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

26 And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

27 And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

Our Daily Manna for Today 10 February 2022 Message

In 1 Chronicles 21:1, we saw how Satan provoked DAVID into a national error! In this year 2022, Satan will raise men and women to PROVOKE YOU INTO UNHOLY ANGER! Be blessed by this evergreen story: “There once was a little boy who had very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. On the first day, the boy hammered 57 nails into that fence! 57 in one day! Wow! The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into began to decrease! He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence and dropped this bombshell: “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say or do things in anger, they leave a scar just like these holes in the fence! You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say “I’m sorry,” the wound/scar would always still be there.” Oh, what a school of ANGER MANAGEMENT!It was C.S. Lewis who penned: “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” A Chinese proverb says: “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” Remember David (today’s scripture)! Control your reaction or anger when provoked, and don’t say/do things to people in the heat of provocation that you may regret later. Some things in life can never be taken back. Learn! 

PRAYER POINTS: Take any worship song as led.

1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. Repent from OVER REACTION to PROVOCATION in the past!
3. ANGER will not be my destiny prison this year in Jesus name.
4. I determine to RULE OVER MY LIFE AND BE IN CONTROL this year!
5. I receive grace to stay calm and STILL even in the storm! I refuse to PANIC or WORRY because I KNOW MY GOD HAS A PLAN.
6. Pray in Tongues seriously about any issue(s) affecting you now.