02-20-2020, 11:47 AM
LIVING WATER CAC DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Thursday, February 20, 2020
- World Day Of Social Justice
EBED-MELECH
Read: Jeremiah 39:15-18
Jeremiah 39:15-18 While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him:
“Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
:But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear.
I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.’”
MEMORISE:I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.’” (Jeremiah 39:18)
EXPOSITION
The behaviourists believe there is correlation between what we get and what we do. This is the similar view in Galatians 6:7-10: God is not mocked, what you sow you shall reap. Ebed-melech's case reveals the impeccability of this thought. No controversy, you get what you bargain for.
Who was Ebed-melech? What did he do? The name means “Servant of (a) king”. He serve Zedekiah before the exile of Judah to Babylon. He was a eunuch, who possessed a golden heart.
When some evil people in the cabinet of the distressed King Zedekiah prevailed on him to imprison Jeremiah, it was Ebed-melech who God used to set him free from the dungeon (38:4-13). Ebed-Melech had soft sports for God and His people. It was this kindness to the man of God and other goodly and godly attitudes that God saw and gave His message to him (read Jer. 39:15-18).
“Because” here implies consequence. It could be fitly rendered as “consequent upon”. Who says God does not count our works? Though it is not by work that anyone should boast. Yet, whatever anyone sows, he reaps.
That should be both a challenge and an encouragement to you on this auspicious World Day of Social Justice, in a generation that people think God no longer sees what each person does, talk less of rewarding such accordingly.
Do not do anything for which you do not expect God's repaying you accordingly.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, continue to use me for Your glory; don't let me, at any point, work contrary to Your will.
2. Release the spirit of service, integrity and humility plus fear of God into my heart, O Lord Jesus.
3. Pray for our seminary and it's satellite campuses, that God should cause remarkable growth therein, to improve the quality of our ministers.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Leviticus 16-17 & Luke 8
Good morning to you. Do have a glorious day ahead.
The second coming of Jesus is imminent. Please be prepared.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
- World Day Of Social Justice
EBED-MELECH
Read: Jeremiah 39:15-18
Jeremiah 39:15-18 While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him:
“Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
:But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear.
I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.’”
MEMORISE:I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.’” (Jeremiah 39:18)
EXPOSITION
The behaviourists believe there is correlation between what we get and what we do. This is the similar view in Galatians 6:7-10: God is not mocked, what you sow you shall reap. Ebed-melech's case reveals the impeccability of this thought. No controversy, you get what you bargain for.
Who was Ebed-melech? What did he do? The name means “Servant of (a) king”. He serve Zedekiah before the exile of Judah to Babylon. He was a eunuch, who possessed a golden heart.
When some evil people in the cabinet of the distressed King Zedekiah prevailed on him to imprison Jeremiah, it was Ebed-melech who God used to set him free from the dungeon (38:4-13). Ebed-Melech had soft sports for God and His people. It was this kindness to the man of God and other goodly and godly attitudes that God saw and gave His message to him (read Jer. 39:15-18).
“Because” here implies consequence. It could be fitly rendered as “consequent upon”. Who says God does not count our works? Though it is not by work that anyone should boast. Yet, whatever anyone sows, he reaps.
That should be both a challenge and an encouragement to you on this auspicious World Day of Social Justice, in a generation that people think God no longer sees what each person does, talk less of rewarding such accordingly.
Do not do anything for which you do not expect God's repaying you accordingly.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, continue to use me for Your glory; don't let me, at any point, work contrary to Your will.
2. Release the spirit of service, integrity and humility plus fear of God into my heart, O Lord Jesus.
3. Pray for our seminary and it's satellite campuses, that God should cause remarkable growth therein, to improve the quality of our ministers.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Leviticus 16-17 & Luke 8
Good morning to you. Do have a glorious day ahead.
The second coming of Jesus is imminent. Please be prepared.