Friday February 13th, 2026
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Read Deuteronomy 8:11-20ERV
11 “Be careful. Don’t forget the Lord your God! Be careful to obey the commands, laws, and rules that I give you today.
12 Then you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses and live in them.
13 Your cattle, sheep, and goats will grow large. You will get plenty of gold and silver. You will have plenty of everything.
14 When that happens, you must be careful not to become proud. You must not forget the Lord your God. You were slaves in Egypt, but He made you free and brought you out of that land.
15 He led you through that great and terrible desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. The ground was dry, and there was no water anywhere. But He gave you water out of a solid rock.
16 In the desert He fed you manna—something your ancestors had never seen. He tested you to make you humble so that everything would go well for you in the end.
17 Don’t ever say to yourself, ‘I got all this wealth by my own power and ability.’
18 Remember the Lord your God is the one who gives you power to do these things. He does this because He wants to keep the agreement that He made with your ancestors, as He is doing today!
19 “Don’t ever forget the Lord your God. Don’t ever follow other gods or worship and serve them. If you do that, I warn you today: You will surely be destroyed!
20 The Lord is destroying other nations for you. But if you stop listening to the Lord your God, you will be destroyed just like them!
If I were to ask you, “Which do you consider more important – the blessing or the Blesser?”
you are likely to say it is the Blesser.
However, there are millions of self-professing Christians around the world today who prioritise God’s blessings above the One who blessed them in the first place.
When you begin to choose your job over God, you are prioritising the blessing over the Blesser.
I want you to do an honest check within yourself now: which one have you been prioritising – the blessing or the Blesser ?
- The unfortunate thing about prioritising the blessing over the Blesser is that the Blesser can withdraw His blessings at any time.
In 1 Samuel 16:1, God told Samuel to stop pleading on Saul’s behalf because He had given the throne to someone else.
In Genesis 48:20, we see how Jacob blessed Ephraim above his older brother Manasseh.
Ephraim eventually became ten times more successful than his brother, Deuteronomy 33:17.
However, when success came, Ephraim forgot God, Psalm 78:9-11.
God kept sending prophets to Ephraim, but he refused to listen to the Blesser.
After some time, God said, “Let him alone” Hosea 4:17.
By the time we get to, Hosea 5:9, God said that Ephraim would be desolate.
- Ephraim lost his blessings because he prioritised them above the Blesser.
When success comes, don’t forget God because He has the power to give and to take away.
When I became General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, I decided by faith that God would feed everyone that came for our annual convention. One of the young men who was a baker said he would provide the bread for breakfast. He later on changed his mind and decided not to supply us with bread as he had promised because he didn’t like a message I preached. God however, sent help to us and we were able to purchase the bread we required. Years later, my baker friend appeared at my house very early one morning. I said, “What can I do for you? You came very early”. He said he would have come earlier but one of his tires got flat and he didn’t have a spare. This was a man who used to have numerous cars; now, he didn’t even have a spare tire because he placed the blessing above the Blesser.
Beloved, focus on the Blesser and not the blessing.
Application – God is more important than all the riches, great positions and blessings of the world. Never forget that.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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