CAREFUL OBSERVATION

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Text : 1Kings 3:21 ISV 

 *The next morning, I got up to nurse my son, and he was dead. But when I examined him carefully in the light of day, he turned out not to be my son whom I had borne!”* 

The story was told about two harlots who got pregnant at the same time and both gave birth to a boychild each. In the course of time, one of them mistakenly slept over her child till the baby dies. 

Being a prostitute, chances are that she didn't even know who the father of the child was, yet, she couldn't bear to lose her child. She resolved to 

stealing the child of her supposed roommate, who like her was equally a prostitute and an heavy sleeper too. 

While her roommate was sleeping, she exchanged her dead son with the living one of her partner. This evil would have gone unnoticed but for the carefulness of the later prostitute. 

While reporting the incident to the king she said:

"The next morning, I got up to nurse my son, and he was dead. But when I examined him carefully in the light of day, he turned out not to be my son whom I had borne!” 1King 3:21 ISV.

I know you are familiar with this story, but let's glean some few lessons from the lives of these harlots. 

1. *They were mothers at heart.* One thing that is synonymous with harlots is abortions, but these ones brought forth new life. They could choose to terminate the new life that God was birthing through them, rather, they migrated from being harlots to being mothers.

 *It takes mothers to conceive and nurture a seed but prostitutes terminate theirs. Be a mother at heart! Raise and nurture that goodly seed in you* .

Just like these women; Mankind, like a prostitute has been walking away from the agenda of God since the fall in the garden. Rom. 3:23. But the gift of God came through Jesus Christ to birth a new life in man, Rom.6:23. 

A number of people are not receiving the gift of God (gift of salvation) offered to them. Titus 2:11. While some of those that have accepted the seed of salvation are aborting this new life. 

 *Let Christ make his home in your heart through faith, so you may be rooted and grounded in love,* 

2. *Careful observation :* Worthy of note is what the second woman did. Situation of life had changed a living baby to a dead one for her, but instead of wailing and forming pity party, she looked carefully at what was on her plate and realised that that was not the gift of God to her. She swung into action and got her baby back. She would have ended up with a dead child if not for her careful observation. 

 *Don't settle for the enemy's ploy, challenge everything that is not in conformity with the will of God for your life with His word.* 

 *God's thoughts towards you are thoughts of peace and not of evil. Resist anything that wants to take His peace from you.* 

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1. Receive the Grace to birth His plans and purpose for your life. 


2. Reject everything that stands contrary to His will in your life. 

 

Bible Reading: 1 Kings 3:16-28.


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