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Bishop Dr. Chris E. Kwakpovwe (B.PHARM)Ph.D)

<p>April 2017 Day 23</p><p>LORD, MAKE ME UNCOMMON IN 2017</p><p>BASIC SCRIPTURE: DEUTERONOMY 7:6-14</p><p></p><p>At a season of my life and ministry, my daily cry was: &lsquo;Lord, make me uncommon in my life and ministry.&rdquo; At a corporate gathering in London, I was also led to minister on the theme: &ldquo;I refuse to be a statistics. Lord, make me uncommon!&rdquo; Much later, as I was preparing to minister on a Sunday morning, the Lord gave me a burning theme: &ldquo;I shall not die in the crowd.&rdquo; So today&rsquo;s devotional emphasis was born from these encounters! I discovered that God had sworn to the Jews: &ldquo;Thou shalt be blessed ABOVE all people ...&rdquo; - today&rsquo;s scripture, vs 14. He did not say &ldquo;You will be blessed ALONG with them.&rdquo; God&rsquo;s mind for you is to be made uncommon from the crowd in 2017. Then a &ldquo;bullet&rsquo; from 1 Peter 2:9 hit me: &ldquo;But ye are a chosen generation, ...a PECULIAR people...&rdquo; The Oxford Dictionary defines peculiar as something, UNUSUAL ODD, EXCLUSIVE, SPECIAL PARTICULAR! So l cried out daily the following prayer points: &ldquo;O Lord, make me uncommon and peculiar in my generation,&rdquo; &ldquo;O Lord, make me unusual in my generation&rdquo; and &ldquo;0 Lord, make me exclusive in my generation. Take me from the crowd!&rdquo; God is doing it in my life and I believe He will do the same for you! Know that you are a generation within a generation! Truth is, God&rsquo;s desire is to see you separated! It is called &ldquo;Competitive Advantage&rdquo; in Business terms. God wants you to have a unique competitive advantage in the midst of the 7.8 billion souls on planet earth. See how a business guru puts it: &ldquo;Competitive&nbsp; advantage manifests by developing a product that becomes the industry standard, achieving lower costs, having a more convenient geographical location, introducing new markets ( Local and International) engaging in company buyouts, merger and acquisition and deploying new technology.&rdquo; Oh, as the political, economic and social world yearns to be different, make that your hot pursuit in the remaining months of 2017. Pray the 3 prayer points in this write-up now and for the next 3 days with fasting! Include the prayers below.&nbsp;</p>