Consecration: Individual

 

To consecrate is to set apart somebody/something for a special use or purpose especially for religious purpose. Today, we are praying for ourselves for personal consecration. Each one of us is specially/wonderfully made Psalms 139:14 and for a divine purpose and assignment. He has also created us for His pleasure – Revelations 4:11.

 

O Lord, consecrate me now to thy service by the power of grace divine. Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope and my will be lost in Thee. – Hymn

 

Sometimes – we say and sing: All to Jesus I surrender but how much of our will have we surrendered?

 

 

 

The Enemy’s Joker: – An extra playing card that is used in some card games, usually as a wild card

 

Today, as we come to the table of the Lord and having determined to yield our all to Him in full consecration, it is important that we guard against the enemy’s joker. Several people in the scripture had bitter experience of the enemy’s joker. The following were not spared:

1.     Moses – Anger – Exodus 32:19 – Cast down the tablets of the law. Numbers 20:10-13; 27:12 – In anger, he performed a miracle.

2.     Saul – Disobedience/Partial obedience. 1 Samuel 29:15; 31

3.     David – Coveteousness/Adultery – 2 Samuel 11 & 12

4.     Achan – Coveteousness. Joshua 7:22-26

5.     Solomon – As wise as Solomon was, adultery and idolatry were the enemy’s jokers thrown at him

6.     Esau – Genesis 25:29 who sold his birth right for food yet sought for it with tears but lost it forever. Hebrews 12:16

7.     Judas – Money – Matthew 26:14, 15, 47

8.     Goliath – Pride – 1 Samuel 17

9.     Cain – Bitterness, envy, jealousy, unforgiving spirit leading to murder eventually.

10.                        Rachael – Coveteousness, idolatry – she kept the strange god of her father. Genesis 31:32-35. Jacob pronounced a curse – termination of life for anyone who took the gods!  Genesis 35:17-19