Genesis 4:15. KJV.
“And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him”.
*MESSAGE*
☆☆☆ You will recall the story of Cain and Abel. How both of them brought offerings before God.
☆☆☆ Abel’s offering was accepted but that of Cain was rejected.
☆☆☆ Cain therefore became envious of his brother and he subsequently killed him.
☆☆☆ God was angry with Cain and he placed a curse on him – Gen. 4: 11-12.
☆☆☆ The gravity of the curse placed on Cain made him cry out unto God that he might be mistaken for a vagabond and a fugitive. And that he might eventually be killed. Gen. 4:13-14.
☆☆☆ The reaction of God to the complaint of Cain led to our main text for today.
☆☆☆ The bible says, “…And the Lord set a mark upon Cain…”.
☆☆☆ It was a mark of identification, It was like a brand or a stigma.
☆☆☆ In today’s terminology, it is called “a label”.
☆☆☆ Beloved, there are right and wrong labels.
■■■ What is a label?
☆☆☆ A label is like a sticker that announces a product.
☆☆☆ It is an inscription pasted on a product to draw people’s attention to it.
☆☆☆ Most times, when we buy a product, it is the label we indirectly buy.
☆☆☆ You make that purchase because of the label that describes it.
☆☆☆ It is the label that sells a product. Labels introduce the buyer to the truth of a product.
☆☆☆ Though the label may be unimportant but without labels, products don’t sell.
☆☆☆ Products don’t speak but labels do.
☆☆☆ A label is a mark of identification.
☆☆☆ A label determines the price and worth of a product.
☆☆☆ A label is also like a “stigma” fixed on a product.
☆☆☆ It is whatever the label says about the product that influences the decision of the buyer, to buy or not to buy.
☆☆☆ Even if the product is very good but carries a wrong label, it will never sell.
■■■ Hear this beloved, the label on Lexus makes it different from Toyota. Believe it or not, both are the same.
■■■ Lincoln Navigator looks good, big, spacious and more expensive than Ford Explorer. Believe it or not, Lincoln Navigator is also Ford Explorer.
☆☆☆ Wrong labels place bad images on products.
☆☆☆ God created man as a good product with the right label, “very good”, excellent, perfect, Gen. 1:31.
☆☆☆ Our parents most times don’t give us the right labels through the names we were given.
☆☆☆ God is our manufacturer, he alone can put the right labels on us.
☆☆☆ God was about to anoint a king from among the children of Jesse and he sent Samuel to the house of Jesse. When Samuel got there, David was already in the bush, working. His father gave him a wrong label, “the shepherd boy”, but God saw in him a king. David was sent for and subsequently anointed as king over Israel.
☆☆☆ Again, when David went to give food to his brethren on the battle field, he was disquieted at the way Goliath messed up the armies of the living God. Goliath mocked the God of Israel and David couldn’t take it any more. He was set to confront Goliath but Saul tried to stop him. All because he saw in him, a shepherd boy. But David said to Saul, “I might look like a shepherd boy or a farmer but there is a warrior in me”. Read I Samuel 17:34-36.
☆☆☆ As parents, we should be careful about how we look at our children or how we treat them.
☆☆☆ The one you look down on today may be your savoiur tomorrow.
☆☆☆ A wrong label placed on the right product, reduces the worth of that product.
☆☆☆ It was the label of a slave placed on Joseph that was paid for by those who bought him for twenty pieces of silver. Read Gen. 37: 28.
☆☆☆ Little did they know that the price of a slave was what they paid for a prime minister.
☆☆☆ The label placed upon Mordecai was that of a gate man but God, the manufacturer, saw in him the second in command to the king.
☆☆☆ It is the manufacturer who knows the worth of his product and he alone can put the right label on it.
☆☆☆ If a manufacturer sees a wrong label on his product, he can never be happy.
☆☆☆ There are beautiful ladies out there who don’t have husbands while there are “ugly” ones with great husbands.
☆☆☆ It is not about the beauty but about the label.
☆☆☆ Contracts will be awarded to people who are less qualified while the very qualified ones are dropped.
☆☆☆ It is not about the man but about the label he carries.
☆☆☆ When a wrong label is placed on a man, every positive step he takes turns negative.
☆☆☆ There are many Mordecai out there who are supposed to be the second in command to the king in the palace but they are still at the gate.
☆☆☆ There are some Josephs who are supposed to be prime ministers but still working as slaves.
*PRAYERS*
1. Oh God my father, please erase every wrong label that the enemy has put upon my life.
2. My God and my creator, please change every name that I am being called which you have not called me from birth.
3. My father, my father, conduct a fresh naming ceremony for me today that will make your plan and purpose for my life to become manifest.
4. Father, you created me perfect, make my life perfect and glorious from today.
5. Every evil seed planted in my life from birth, that is now giving me a wrong label, oh God my father, please uproot now in Jesus name.
6. God gave me the right label at creation, “very good”, I reject every wrong label being attached to my life in Jesus name.
7. Father, barrenness is a wrong label, please let Genesis 1 :28 become effective in my life.
8. Father, being alone and without a spouse is a wrong label, let Genesis 1:18 become fulfilled in my life.
9. Being homeless, jobless, and no food to eat, are all wrong labels: Please Lord, let Genesis 2:8,15-16 become manifest in my life.
10. I am a finished product from the factory of Jehovah God, I shall no longer be limited in Jesus name.
11. Father, please restore my lost opportunities and glory in Jesus name.
12. I carry the right label, therefore, Philippians 4:13 shall become effective in my life henceforth in Jesus mighty name.
*PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS*
Every wrong label placed on your life, giving people wrong impressions about you, I command it to catch fire right now in Jesus name.
I wiped off by the blood of Jesus, all the negative labels placed on your destiny in Jesus name.
Every wrong label that people see on you that makes them hate you without any just course, I command it to be roasted now in Jesus name.
There is a greater you inside the present you that you and the world are yet to discover. I prophesy, that greater you hidden in the present you shall begin to manifest from today in Jesus name.
I decree, every evil mark placed upon your life that has been speaking evil against your destiny shall be erased today in Jesus name.
■■■ Barrenness is a wrong label because the right label on man from the manufacturer is, “Be fruitful and multiply” – Gen. 1:28.
From today, I prophesy, God who is your manufacturer shall change every wrong label placed on your life to the right label in Jesus name.
It is what the label says that the enemy will subject you to. I prophesy, that wrong label giving you a wrong identity is changing now in Jesus name.
Your life shall be what the manufacturer says it should be in Jesus mighty name.
The manufacturer, God, declared concerning man “it was very good”.
I prophesy, everything concerning you shall be very good in Jesus name.
Happy new month everyone.
Happy day.
Pastor Olutimehin Isaac is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
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