DAY 5, 12, 19, 26
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Many Believers no longer consider it out of place (or a sin) to engage in dishonest business practices like frauds, giving and taking of bribes, falsifying receipts and invoices, adulteration of products, exorbitant profit margin, etc.
We must understand that God rules even in the market place; the way we make our profit matters to Him. He expects us to carry out all our business and financial transactions with 100% honesty no matter who we are dealing with. Any infringement in the areas of weights and measures is counted as unrighteousness and abomination before Him.
Sing this song a few times:
I will make my heart Your dwelling place;
I will build Your throne in my heart;
Come FATHER, come SON, Come HOLY SPIRIT,
Come and take your place,
In my heart!
DEUT. 25: 13-15
Let us start this prayer session by bringing all our business and financial dealings before God; let us ask Him to search us and help us to identify areas where we have violated the law of just weights and measures.
Let us bring repentance for all forms of dishonesty, inequalities, inaccuracies, falsehood and ungodliness in our transactions. Let us also bring repentance on behalf of private business organizations, government parastatals, institutions and spiritual organizations where we work, as employers, employees or business owners.
PROV. 20: 23
Dishonest scales and dishonest measures are an abomination to the Lord! He hates it because it speaks of the condition of the heart of the man that uses them. The use of dishonest scales and measures is an expression of rebellion against God; a defiance of His law and an act of greed and theft. It speaks of a lack of consideration for the life and well being of the client / customer.
Let us bring repentance to God for all of these on behalf of ourselves and all classes of professions represented in our cities and nation NIGERIA.
Ask God to forgive us for all the damage that has been done to human lives, society and properties by the use of dishonest weights and measures.
Let us apologize to God on behalf of the Church in NIGERIA for the disgrace and blasphemies that have been brought upon His great name by our permissiveness and use of dishonest weights and measures. 2 SAM. 12: 13-14
LEV. 19: 35-37
Let us cry to God in repentance for the level of corruption in our nation that has destroyed our economy and our global reputation over the years. These are some of the consequences of using false weights and measures.
PROV. 11:1
Let us confess to Him how that our business men and women and traders at all levels are users of false weights and measures. Some have been involved in the production, importation and sale of fake drugs which have claimed many innocent lives. Let us confess to God how that exam malpractice is ?legalized? in most of our institutions and examination centers.
PROV. 20:10
Some public servants in the civil service sector, armed forces, para-military and government sector have made bribery, paying of salaries to ghost workers and falsifying of documents, a way of life. While artisans like tailors, mechanics, electricians, laborers etc have made lying and cheating the ?unwritten code of conduct? of their profession. Let us accept responsibility for all of these and bring repentance to God. PSALM 51: 17
Let bring atonement by the blood of Jesus over our lives, the organizations we represent and the entire nation of Nigeria, to cleanse us from the unrighteousness and abomination of using unjust weight and measures. LEV. 17: 11
MICAH 6: 11, EZK. 36: 26
The eyes of the Lord are purer than to behold iniquity. Let us plead with Him to cleanse and receive us again as His people, and not reject us.
DEUT. 35: 14
The use of weights and measures can affect our relationship with God and can determine length of life.? Let us pray that God would deliver and cleanse us and our land from all the consequences of using dishonest weight and measures.
EZK. 45: 10-11, ISA. 11: 3, 48: 17
Pray that God would pour upon us as a nation, the spirit of the fear of God. Ask that spirit would direct and influence all our transactions.
Plead that God would help us (first the Church and then the nation) to understand that no aspect of our life?s endeavors are secular. That He is interested, involved, oversees and desires to be enthroned in all areas of our lives; including our business transactions, and all forms of income and profit making.
PROV. 17:34
Let us cry to God to help us as a people and nation to overcome this hydra headed monster called ?CORRUPTION? by the power in the name of JESUS!
LUKE. 3: 9
Command that the tree of ?corruption? in Nigeria to be cut down and thrown into the un-quenching fire of the HOLY GHOST. Let it wither and dry up from its roots and never bear fruits again, in JESUS? mighty name!
Let ?corruption? be swept and flushed out of our government parastatals, out of our civil service sectors, out of our educational institutions, out of our market places and Churches, by the blood of Jesus.
LUKE 3: 10-14 & 12: 15
Let us ask that God would take away the spirit of greed and excessive craving for material wealth from the hearts of all Nigerians, beginning from the youngest to the oldest.
