Streams of Joy Devotional 20 July 2025 by Pastor Jerry Eze
Streams of Joy Devotional 20 July 2025 by Pastor Jerry Eze
PASTOR JERRY EZE DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE 18TH JULY 2025
Welcome to Streams of Joy Daily Devotional Message for today written by Pastor Jerry Eze, Convener, New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations, NSPPD. May you be blessed as you study today!
Streams of Joy Devotional 20 July 2025 by Pastor Jerry Eze
TOPIC: DISCERN YOUR SEASON
SCRIPTURE: “And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:” (Luke 13: 8
That is the Focal Scripture of Streams of Joy Devotional today.
In our Focal Scripture, the vinedresser offered to dig around the fig tree, and to dung it. Ordinarily, vinedressers serve to prune the vine; they cut off the needless branches in order to have the vine grow more productively. This vinedresser had a responsibility to discern what to remove. He also chose to add dung to the fig tree. He saw what was missing and what was needed. He discerned what needed to be added.
Friend, as you seek to grow to higher levels, you just might need to always discern what is missing and what needs to be cut off. Growth demands that at every juncture, you must discern what has served its purpose in your life and needs to be cut off. Growth demands that you discern the relationships that have to be cut off. Growth demands that you discern the commitments that need to end. Growth demands a cutting off.
The vinedresser was not only there to cut things off. He was also there to bring dung in. He was there to supply what was missing. Greatness may not come your way until you are intentional to bring in what is missing in your life. You may need to be intentional to bring in the right relationships, right attitudes, right habits, right prayers, right communication skills, right behaviour, right perspectives, right core values, right ideas, etc.
If you make the mistake of not adding what is missing, or taking off what has outlived its purpose, you just might be on the highway that leads to stagnation and retrogression. If you are unable to discern what is missing and what needs to be taken off, you just might arrive at the future totally unfit for the future you arrived at. If you fail to discern what needs to leave and what needs to enter, you just might remain unfruitful much longer.
Ask the Lord to open your eyes to see the places where changes are needed in your life. Be courageous enough to discard what is no longer needed, and take on what is now needed.
Ephesians 5: 15 says: “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
Declare With Me: My eyes are open to see and discern what needs to be cut off and what needs to come in, in Jesus’ name!
ABOUT: Pastor Jerry Uchechukwu Eze is a dynamic Nigerian pastor, author, and televangelist, born on August 22, 1982, in Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria. He is the founder and Lead Pastor of Streams of Joy International, a rapidly growing ministry with branches across Nigeria, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Pastor Jerry is also the convener of the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations (NSPPD), a global online prayer platform known for its powerful prophetic sessions and testimonies.
His daily devotional, Streams of Joy Devotional, launched in January 2011, offers daily spiritual insights aimed at inspiring believers towards a deeper relationship with God. The devotional is widely read across the globe and is considered a bestseller. Pastor Jerry Eze is married to Pastor Eno Jerry, and they are blessed with two children.
