03-13-2019, 11:24 AM
*OUR DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL*
_A DEVOTIONAL BOOKLET FOR CHAMPIONS_
*DATE: WEDNESDAY 13TH MARCH, 2019*
*TOPIC: THE COPPER (BRASS) WITHOUT THE POISON! LOOK UP 2019!*
*BASIC SCRIPTURES: NUMBERS 21:4-9; HEBREWS 12:1-2*
Vs. 8 of today’s 1st scripture is a journey to the old rugged cross: “And the LORD said unto Moses, ‘Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”
Make a fiery serpent! Did you get that? Even though it was supposed to be an ordinary work of art, AS FAR AS GOD WAS CONCERNED, THAT SERPENT OF BRASS WAS FIERY! Also note that even though the people were dying and suffering, God WAS NOT IN A HURRY TO HEAL THEM! It took a PROCESS of LOOKING! No wonder what has gotten you or taken away your joy in your past years, I am sent today to let you know that GOD IS WORKING ON YOUR CASE even though it seems like He is slow! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO LOOK! To LOOK means TO TRUST! It means to WAIT FOR HIM!
It means to determine to hold on and hold out knowing that the God who created you is ON THE THRONE! The LOOKING means IT IS NOT BY POWER OR BY MIGHT! It is BY GRACE AND FAITH! It was a type of our salvation by Christ! The serpent signified Christ, who was in the likeness of sinful flesh, though without sin, as this brazen serpent had the outward shape but not the inward poison of the other serpents! Did you get that? *He CARRIED THE NATURE OF SIN – the SERPENT* – but He was without THE POISON OF THE SERPENT! Glory to God! He took the nature of the serpent in order to paralyze the serpent! The pole was a type of the cross upon which Christ was lifted up for our salvation! Oh! Get this: If you want proof of God’s love for you in 2019, then you must look daily at the CROSS where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for your sins! Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God’s love for you!
*IF HE COULD GIVE YOU JESUS CHRIST, WHAT ELSE CAN HE NOT GIVE TO YOU? That delay will bow because your God CANNOT deny you anything!* Oh! Hear Philip Yancey: *“Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that He could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to – because of us. At Calvary, God accepted His own unbreakable terms of justice.”* Wow! Daily this year, LOOK UNTO HIM IN EVERY BATTLE and at every CROSSROAD! Yes! Because of that CROSS, your last bus-stop CANNOT be STORY, STORY, STORY, without result! It will be GLORY! GLORY AND MORE GLORY in Jesus name! amen and amen!
*PRAYER POINTS:
Take Song 2: The Old Rugged Cross…*
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. Lord, thank you for hanging on that cross for me!
3. Thank you Father for sending Your PRECIOUS SON!
4. JEHOVAH, if You could give me Your SON, then ALL THINGS ARE MINE! *(Mention them…)*
5. I cancel depression, heaviness or self-pity in Jesus name.
*THE BIBLE IN YEAR: RUTH 1 – 4*
*BY: BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)*
_PUBLISHER/AUTHOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_
*Song 2: The Old Rugged Cross*
1. On the hill far away,
Stood an old rugged Cross
The emblem of suff’ring and shame
And I love that old Cross
Where the dearest and blest
For a world of lost sinners was slain
*Chorus*
So I’ll cherish that old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it someday for a crown
2. Oh, that old rugged Cross
So despised by the world
Has a wondrous attraction for me
For the dear Lamb of God,
Left his Glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary
3. In the old rugged Cross,
Stain’d with blood so divine
A wondrous beauty I see
T’was on that old Cross
Jesus suffered and died
To pardon and sanctified me.
_A DEVOTIONAL BOOKLET FOR CHAMPIONS_
*DATE: WEDNESDAY 13TH MARCH, 2019*
*TOPIC: THE COPPER (BRASS) WITHOUT THE POISON! LOOK UP 2019!*
*BASIC SCRIPTURES: NUMBERS 21:4-9; HEBREWS 12:1-2*
Vs. 8 of today’s 1st scripture is a journey to the old rugged cross: “And the LORD said unto Moses, ‘Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.”
Make a fiery serpent! Did you get that? Even though it was supposed to be an ordinary work of art, AS FAR AS GOD WAS CONCERNED, THAT SERPENT OF BRASS WAS FIERY! Also note that even though the people were dying and suffering, God WAS NOT IN A HURRY TO HEAL THEM! It took a PROCESS of LOOKING! No wonder what has gotten you or taken away your joy in your past years, I am sent today to let you know that GOD IS WORKING ON YOUR CASE even though it seems like He is slow! ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO LOOK! To LOOK means TO TRUST! It means to WAIT FOR HIM!
It means to determine to hold on and hold out knowing that the God who created you is ON THE THRONE! The LOOKING means IT IS NOT BY POWER OR BY MIGHT! It is BY GRACE AND FAITH! It was a type of our salvation by Christ! The serpent signified Christ, who was in the likeness of sinful flesh, though without sin, as this brazen serpent had the outward shape but not the inward poison of the other serpents! Did you get that? *He CARRIED THE NATURE OF SIN – the SERPENT* – but He was without THE POISON OF THE SERPENT! Glory to God! He took the nature of the serpent in order to paralyze the serpent! The pole was a type of the cross upon which Christ was lifted up for our salvation! Oh! Get this: If you want proof of God’s love for you in 2019, then you must look daily at the CROSS where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for your sins! Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God’s love for you!
*IF HE COULD GIVE YOU JESUS CHRIST, WHAT ELSE CAN HE NOT GIVE TO YOU? That delay will bow because your God CANNOT deny you anything!* Oh! Hear Philip Yancey: *“Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that He could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to – because of us. At Calvary, God accepted His own unbreakable terms of justice.”* Wow! Daily this year, LOOK UNTO HIM IN EVERY BATTLE and at every CROSSROAD! Yes! Because of that CROSS, your last bus-stop CANNOT be STORY, STORY, STORY, without result! It will be GLORY! GLORY AND MORE GLORY in Jesus name! amen and amen!
*PRAYER POINTS:
Take Song 2: The Old Rugged Cross…*
1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. Lord, thank you for hanging on that cross for me!
3. Thank you Father for sending Your PRECIOUS SON!
4. JEHOVAH, if You could give me Your SON, then ALL THINGS ARE MINE! *(Mention them…)*
5. I cancel depression, heaviness or self-pity in Jesus name.
*THE BIBLE IN YEAR: RUTH 1 – 4*
*BY: BISHOP (DR) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE (CEK)*
_PUBLISHER/AUTHOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_
*Song 2: The Old Rugged Cross*
1. On the hill far away,
Stood an old rugged Cross
The emblem of suff’ring and shame
And I love that old Cross
Where the dearest and blest
For a world of lost sinners was slain
*Chorus*
So I’ll cherish that old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it someday for a crown
2. Oh, that old rugged Cross
So despised by the world
Has a wondrous attraction for me
For the dear Lamb of God,
Left his Glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary
3. In the old rugged Cross,
Stain’d with blood so divine
A wondrous beauty I see
T’was on that old Cross
Jesus suffered and died
To pardon and sanctified me.