Daily Companion  |  5 June

DESPERATION FOR DIVINE BLESSING 

“And [the Angel] said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he [Jacob] said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” - Genesis 32:26 (NKJV)

While securing or  seeking for something precious to your survival, it may lead to desperation. Desperation could be positive and as well dangerous. Hence, utmost caution is needed when desiring for blessings, change or improvement in your health, social, financial or spiritual life at all cost. The safest, fastest and easiest way to express your desperation is towards God and never toward man or self-help. 

Desperation with man or self-help can lead you to more trouble. Desperation of Jacob for his father’s blessings led him into two decades of labour with little gathering, 2 decades of guilt and of being hunted, and of lack of peace of mind. But his desperation for God’s blessing took him only a single vigil. You may be in similar situation today. Desperation requires action, diligence, determination. It must however be done in a legitimate and divine way. 

Dear friend, your desperation for divine blessing, like Jacob, begins when you stop cheating, or resorting to self-help. In your business or job, you must work hard. In your study, you need to study hard. Follow due process in whatever you do. And then take your desperation to succeed to the next level: pray hard. You alone with God in the secret, fight for your blessings on your knees. Fight for your success and survival with fasting. Fight to exel. Fight for your freedom. Fight with great faith that knowing well nothing is impossible with God. Remember, only desperation with great faith can make a man pray such a prayer, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” (Genesis 32:26). Don’t let go of God until He blesses you! 

Today’s Recite: "Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. (James 1:6, 7)

Today’s Morning Prayer: O God I thank You because there is nothing impossible with You. I confess my sins of self-help. I now bring my burdens and desperations to You this morning and ask that You will bless me and enlarge my coast indeed in Jesus name I pray. Amen!

Today’s Hymn:  OUT OF MY BONDAGE   (CHS 29)

Today’s ReadMe:  Job 37 - 39