DON’T BE A FAULT-FINDER

Bible Reading: LUKE 14:1-11

“And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.”

Religious leaders in Christ’s day spent most of their time criticising Him without making any meaningful impact in their own service. The Pharisees and Sadducees became an inglorious army of fault finders, looking for loopholes or any violations that they can use against Christ. In the passage under review, the Pharisees would not identify with the plight of the sick man but instead focused on the assumed violation of the laws by healing the man on the Sabbath day.

Fault-finders are very prominent in every church today. They criticise everything that is done for no good reason. Their concern is not about the salvation of souls but whether there is any violation of their self-made rules which are not Bible-based. They advance their wickedness, covetousness and pride by hiding under certain Scripture which they twist to serve their own ulterior purposes.

We should not allow the envious and judgmental Pharisees in the church to drown our zeal. Where possible, the Scriptures should be explained to these religious bigots, highlighting the basis behind our deeds; but where they choose not to listen, we must continue to go higher for Christ. Fault-finders can never be pathfinders.

PRAYER POINTS

Almighty God, I cancel every power that is troubling my life, my family, my career, my business, and my aspiration in the mighty name of Jesus.

God my Father command peace into my life in Jesus’ name .

Lord Jesus, I refuse to be discouraged because of the tactics of the devil to ruin my life and put sorrowful thoughts in me in Jesus name .

I stop every discouragement in my life in the name of Jesus.

God be with me wherever I go from now on in Jesus’ name.

Father, I strongly believe in your power and what you can do. Put an end to all demonic powers that are troubling my life and all that concerns me in the name of Jesus Christ.