Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional 5 April 2024 By Dr. D.K Olukoya: Lessons From The Life Of Hezekiah (III)
TOPIC: Lessons From The Life Of Hezekiah (III) (Mountain Of Fire and Miracle Ministries, MFM Devotional 5 April 2024)
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 19, 2 Samuel 20, 2 Samuel 21, Revelation 3, Revelation 4
FIRE SCRIPTURE: 2 Chronicles 29:1-36 (KJV)
1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
MEMORY VERSE: “O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.” – Habakkuk 3:2 (KJV)
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES:
It takes only one man to change the world. If others are like you, will there be any revival?
PRAISE AND WORSHIP:
Take praise and worship songs as led by the Holy Spirit.
PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY
GOD WILL MAKE YOU AN AGENT OF REVIVAL IN YOUR GENERATION, IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
MFM Devotional For Today 2023 MESSAGE:
King Hezekiah was an agent of revival and reformation. He lived in a corrupt and wicked era where idolatry, witchcraft and all kinds of evil thrived. He, having given his life wholly to God, sought to also bring others back to God. His father had desecrated the altars and temple of God. He had shut the doors of God’s house to true worshippers and had engaged all kinds of heathen practices. When Hezekiah came on board, he opened the house of God, cleansed and repaired it. He corrected all the religious errors of his father. He gathered the priests and levites. He appeased the wrath of God by sin offerings. He reformed the land. He was an early riser to church (vs 20), he brought back godly music and spread revival quickly at a very young age.
Beloved, in your local environment and your sphere of influence, what are you doing to spread Christ, both in your deed and actions? How are you influencing the people around you to serve God or are you the one discouraging people from serving God, causing division among the people of God? If we must see revival in our days, it will start with us, the conditions of our hearts and then can spread to others. What role are you playing to ensure that God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven?
”And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?” As part of his reformation agenda, he brought water into the city. What are you bringing into the fold, beloved? What are you bringing to the table? Some are bringing division and rebellion. Some are bringing gossip and contentions. In his days, John Knox prayed, “Give me Scotland or I die.” He wasn’t praying for himself but was praying to see the revival of his land and generation. Pastors, workers, members and you in particular, I ask you today, what are you bringing on board? Also, because of Hezekiah, we have been able to read certain portion of the book of Proverbs- Proverbs 25:1. May God help us to align with His purpose, in Jesus’ name.
MORNING
- Father, revive my spirit man, in the name of Jesus.
- Negligence, laxity and complacency in my life, die, in the name of Jesus.
- I shall be an agent of revival, in the name of Jesus.
EVENING
- My lifestyle will bring others to God, in the name of Jesus.
- Doors of true worship that has been shut against this generation, Ephphatha, be opened, in the name of Jesus.
- Altars of strange religion in our nation, I pull you down, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Conspiracy against Christianity in our land, scatter to desolation, in the name of Jesus.
MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)
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