01-27-2019, 04:07 PM
OUR DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL
DATE: SUNDAY 27TH JANUARY, 2019
TOPIC: THE STRANGE DOCTOR! NEVER WRITE OFF YOURSELF!
BASIC SCRIPTURES: 1KINGS 17:8-16; JOB 14:7-9
In one of the teaching hospitals in one African country, laid a woman who was critically ill. The husband had been visiting her in hospital and offering the care he could. One fateful day, the man went to see her as usual. The doctors told him that based on their experience and from the look of her condition, she would not survive beyond another 24 hours.
The husband did not disclose to his wife what the doctors had told him. He went to her bed, bid her good night with a promise to see her the following day, but deep down in his heart, he believed that based on the doctor’s report, the woman would be gone by the break of day. On his way home, the man made a call to his girlfriend to come over to his house so that they could enjoy the night together.
However, that night, a man dressed in white like a doctor went into the room where the lady was admitted and said to her, “Daughter, I am the Lord that healeth thee. Get up and go home.” The woman got healed instantly! She walked to the shocked nurses and said she was well and on her way home. That night, one way or the other, he left the hospital. When she got home, she met the house door unlocked. She opened it and met her husband with the strange woman. The man began to look at her as if he had seen a ghost.
The rest of the story is history because she became a testimony to the shame of the doctors who gave the verdict and her husband who was unfaithful. Get this clear: Doctors are wonderful people; but they are not your Maker. No doctor is THE GREAT PHYSICIAN! Jesus is the Great Physician. He can make whole and will make you whole in this year 2019! WHOLE MEANS WHOLE – spirit, soul, body, business, career, academics, ministry, marital settlement, etc! This woman’s husband in today’s story had written her off, but God did not write her off! The widow of Zarephath had written herself off when she said, “As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die” (1Kings 17:12).
However, God did not write her off! Job 14:7 says, “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.” There is a common saying that when there is life, there is hope. NEVER write yourself off! Don’t let anybody or circumstance/situation write you off! Help is still on the way. Faith is not faith till it’s all you are holding on to! Courage is fear holding on a minute longer! Your God did not bring you this far to let you down! Look to Him! He is taking you from STORY to GLORY! Watch out!
ASABA 2019: The great international Asaba special anointing service is February 8th and 9th 2019! Friday is 6pm. Saturday is 7:30am. Venue is the CANOTAPH. Theme: “SATANIC SALOONS: CATCH FIRE!”
PRAYER POINTS:
Take Song 1: Higher Ground…
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. I SCATTER fear, depression, sorrow or discouragement now!
THE BIBLE-IN-ONE-YEAR: EXODUS 38 – 40
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
_PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM_
*mSongs 1: Higher Ground
1. I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining everyday;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”
Chorus
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
2. My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
3. I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
4. I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground.”
DATE: SUNDAY 27TH JANUARY, 2019
TOPIC: THE STRANGE DOCTOR! NEVER WRITE OFF YOURSELF!
BASIC SCRIPTURES: 1KINGS 17:8-16; JOB 14:7-9
In one of the teaching hospitals in one African country, laid a woman who was critically ill. The husband had been visiting her in hospital and offering the care he could. One fateful day, the man went to see her as usual. The doctors told him that based on their experience and from the look of her condition, she would not survive beyond another 24 hours.
The husband did not disclose to his wife what the doctors had told him. He went to her bed, bid her good night with a promise to see her the following day, but deep down in his heart, he believed that based on the doctor’s report, the woman would be gone by the break of day. On his way home, the man made a call to his girlfriend to come over to his house so that they could enjoy the night together.
However, that night, a man dressed in white like a doctor went into the room where the lady was admitted and said to her, “Daughter, I am the Lord that healeth thee. Get up and go home.” The woman got healed instantly! She walked to the shocked nurses and said she was well and on her way home. That night, one way or the other, he left the hospital. When she got home, she met the house door unlocked. She opened it and met her husband with the strange woman. The man began to look at her as if he had seen a ghost.
The rest of the story is history because she became a testimony to the shame of the doctors who gave the verdict and her husband who was unfaithful. Get this clear: Doctors are wonderful people; but they are not your Maker. No doctor is THE GREAT PHYSICIAN! Jesus is the Great Physician. He can make whole and will make you whole in this year 2019! WHOLE MEANS WHOLE – spirit, soul, body, business, career, academics, ministry, marital settlement, etc! This woman’s husband in today’s story had written her off, but God did not write her off! The widow of Zarephath had written herself off when she said, “As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die” (1Kings 17:12).
However, God did not write her off! Job 14:7 says, “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.” There is a common saying that when there is life, there is hope. NEVER write yourself off! Don’t let anybody or circumstance/situation write you off! Help is still on the way. Faith is not faith till it’s all you are holding on to! Courage is fear holding on a minute longer! Your God did not bring you this far to let you down! Look to Him! He is taking you from STORY to GLORY! Watch out!
ASABA 2019: The great international Asaba special anointing service is February 8th and 9th 2019! Friday is 6pm. Saturday is 7:30am. Venue is the CANOTAPH. Theme: “SATANIC SALOONS: CATCH FIRE!”
PRAYER POINTS:
Take Song 1: Higher Ground…
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. I SCATTER fear, depression, sorrow or discouragement now!
THE BIBLE-IN-ONE-YEAR: EXODUS 38 – 40
BY BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)
_PUBLISHER/WRITER OF ODM_
*mSongs 1: Higher Ground
1. I’m pressing on the upward way,
New heights I’m gaining everyday;
Still praying as I onward bound,
“Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”
Chorus
Lord, lift me up, and let me stand
By faith on Canaan’s tableland;
A higher plane than I have found,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
2. My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Though some may dwell where these abound,
My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.
3. I want to live above the world,
Though Satan’s darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
4. I want to scale the utmost height
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I’ll pray till rest I’ve found,
“Lord, lead me on to higher ground.”