Sunday July 20th, 2025
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23 Be careful that you don’t forget the promise that the Lord your God made to you. Don’t make your own carved idols or statues that represent anything the Lord your God has forbidden.
24 The Lord your God is a raging fire, a God who does not tolerate rivals.
Our God is a jealous God.
He hates to share you with any other god.
That is why you must flee idolatry.
Idolatry means worshiping idols.
Anything you regard higher than God is an idol, whether you are doing it consciously or not.
This is why you need to check who you are worshiping at every point in time.
For some people, it is their jobs.
They don’t joke with their job at all; even when it clashes with God’s will, their job is priority.
Jesus said: No servant can serve two masters: for either they will hate the one, and love the other; or else they will love to the one, and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and money (Luke 16:13).
The moment your source of income has become so important that it takes priority over God, you are serving an idol.
Many people purposely leave most of their money at home and take just a little amount to Church because they know that God can ask them to give more than they planned for.
When God tells some people to sow a seed that they don’t want to sow, they quickly tell their spouse because they know he or she will disagree, then they go back to God and say “Lord, you see that I wanted to sow, but my spouse refused”
You forget that God can see your heart (Proverbs 16:2).
When God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to Him, Abraham could have quickly told Sarah, knowing that Sarah could hide the boy.
He however kept mute; he didn’t even say anything to the boy who was to be sacrificed.
This is a heart that puts no other thing before God.
God does not want any other position in your heart but number one.
The moment something else is competing with Him, He excuses Himself.
He said you should either be hot or cold; if you are lukewarm, He will spew you out of His Mouth (Revelations 3:16).
I once told a brother that we were going for evangelism on a Monday and would like to use his car. He immediately replied that he needed the car to go to work. I then assured him that all the vehicles we needed were already prepared; it was just a test. He couldn’t even take public transportation to work for only one day so that the word of God could be preached to lost souls.
At one point or the other, God will ask you to choose between His will and something or someone you love very much.
I hope you choose God.
Application – Is God really number one in your life?
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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