27/10/2025
Daily Devotional by *Prophet Dag Heward-Mills*
*OFFENDED SCOFFERS*
*October 27, 2025*
READ: *Proverbs 9:7-9*
_He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself._ - *Proverbs 9:7* _(NASB 1995)_
I have been dishonoured many times by people I rebuked and corrected. In the course of raising up thousands of pastors and being a spiritual father to many, you would expect there would be some corrections and some rebukes.
Most of the people I have corrected have taken it well. But indeed some of them rose up strongly to insult me and to dishonour me. I was called “Satan” by someone when I corrected him. *When pride fills a person, he is easily offended*. A swollen toad is more easily pricked or stepped on than a small one. A puffed up balloon is easier to burst and be destroyed. _When people are proud and swollen the slightest prick causes an explosion._
Inflated pastors have an illusion and a delusion of how big they really are. Sometimes they have had opportunities that have swelled up their minds. *Many successful people are actually the products of many other people’s input*. _Pride blinds you to the things that others have done to make you what you are._
*Many successful people are actually the products of a set of circumstances that have come together in perfect timing to make you look successful.* _This is what someone would call grace or luck._
*Your greatness is merely an act of grace, mercy and love from God.* Rising up, in great confidence about who you are and what you can do, is a sign that you are deceived about who you really are. Such proud people are easy to offend.
When a man can rebuke, insult and degrade his own father, he is indeed proud and too big to remain under his father. *A father’s rebuke can cause a proud person to insult him and to break God’s eternal and sacred commandments of honouring fathers.*
*A GREATER AND BETTER YEAR 2025 🙏*
*Read Your Bible, Pray Everyday 📖*