08-02-2020, 09:05 AM
LIVING WATER CAC DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Sunday, August 2, 2020
SPIRITUAL LAW (1)
Read: Genesis 49:1-12
Genesis 49:1-12 And Jacob called for his sons and said, Gather yourselves together [around me], that I may tell you what shall befall you in the latter or last days.
Gather yourselves together and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken to Israel your father.
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the beginning (the firstfruits) of my manly strength and vigor; [your birthright gave you] the preeminence in dignity and the preeminence in power.
But unstable and boiling over like water, you shall not excel and have the preeminence [of the firstborn], because you went to your father’s bed; you defiled it—he went to my couch!
Simeon and Levi are brothers [equally headstrong, deceitful, vindictive, and cruel]; their swords are weapons of violence.
O my soul, come not into their secret council; unto their assembly let not my honor be united [for I knew nothing of their plot], because in their anger they slew men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites], and in their self-will they disabled oxen.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, you are the one whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Judah, a lion’s cub! With the prey, my son, you have gone high up [the mountain]. He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, and like a lioness—who dares provoke and rouse him?
The scepter or leadership shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [the Messiah, the Peaceful One] comes to Whom it belongs, and to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
Binding His foal to the vine and His donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washes His garments in wine and His clothes in the blood of grapes.
His eyes are darker and more sparkling than wine, and His teeth whiter than milk.
MEMORISE: You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways. (Job 22:28)
EXPOSITION
Laws are made to install and I still order and operational guide to a person or group of people on how they have to live within a given spheres. A law could be verbal or written, what matters is the power that backs and enforces it. Every aspect of our lives is being controlled by one form of laws, or the other, both physically and spiritually.
A young man was sick and everybody wished him quick recovery and prayer was organised for him, but God said, He will surly die. Few days later, he died. His pastor became worried and went to enquire before God what was the matter.
God latter revealed to him through the man's mum that he had side right from childhood that he will die before his fortieth birthday. Actually, he did not see his fortieth birthday. The young man has made spiritual irreversible law on his life and so it happened.
Jacob side; Reuben ‘shall not excel’ even though Reuben was the first son and was entitled to a double portion of his father's wealth. By just a sentence, “Spiritual law” Reuben's life was stagnated. David fasted for days over the results of his illicit affair with Bathsheba. The boy eventually died and David had no one to blame for it (2 Sam. 12:18-23).
Be careful the words you speak to your life, children and others, words are spiritual laws set in motion theft can promote or destroy one's life. What spiritual laws have you made on your life that set your life in the wrong direction? Cry out to God for divine intervention and correction. Think and speak carefully.
PRAYER POINTS
1. My Father, every spiritual law I have made against myself, have mercy on me.
2. My Father, I reject every negative spiritual law made by others, especially those who brought me forth, against my life.
3. Lord, we break every spiritual law that is destroying our country.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 30-31; 2 Peter 2
Sunday, August 2, 2020
SPIRITUAL LAW (1)
Read: Genesis 49:1-12
Genesis 49:1-12 And Jacob called for his sons and said, Gather yourselves together [around me], that I may tell you what shall befall you in the latter or last days.
Gather yourselves together and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken to Israel your father.
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the beginning (the firstfruits) of my manly strength and vigor; [your birthright gave you] the preeminence in dignity and the preeminence in power.
But unstable and boiling over like water, you shall not excel and have the preeminence [of the firstborn], because you went to your father’s bed; you defiled it—he went to my couch!
Simeon and Levi are brothers [equally headstrong, deceitful, vindictive, and cruel]; their swords are weapons of violence.
O my soul, come not into their secret council; unto their assembly let not my honor be united [for I knew nothing of their plot], because in their anger they slew men [an honored man, Shechem, and the Shechemites], and in their self-will they disabled oxen.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, you are the one whom your brothers shall praise; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Judah, a lion’s cub! With the prey, my son, you have gone high up [the mountain]. He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, and like a lioness—who dares provoke and rouse him?
The scepter or leadership shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh [the Messiah, the Peaceful One] comes to Whom it belongs, and to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
Binding His foal to the vine and His donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washes His garments in wine and His clothes in the blood of grapes.
His eyes are darker and more sparkling than wine, and His teeth whiter than milk.
MEMORISE: You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways. (Job 22:28)
EXPOSITION
Laws are made to install and I still order and operational guide to a person or group of people on how they have to live within a given spheres. A law could be verbal or written, what matters is the power that backs and enforces it. Every aspect of our lives is being controlled by one form of laws, or the other, both physically and spiritually.
A young man was sick and everybody wished him quick recovery and prayer was organised for him, but God said, He will surly die. Few days later, he died. His pastor became worried and went to enquire before God what was the matter.
God latter revealed to him through the man's mum that he had side right from childhood that he will die before his fortieth birthday. Actually, he did not see his fortieth birthday. The young man has made spiritual irreversible law on his life and so it happened.
Jacob side; Reuben ‘shall not excel’ even though Reuben was the first son and was entitled to a double portion of his father's wealth. By just a sentence, “Spiritual law” Reuben's life was stagnated. David fasted for days over the results of his illicit affair with Bathsheba. The boy eventually died and David had no one to blame for it (2 Sam. 12:18-23).
Be careful the words you speak to your life, children and others, words are spiritual laws set in motion theft can promote or destroy one's life. What spiritual laws have you made on your life that set your life in the wrong direction? Cry out to God for divine intervention and correction. Think and speak carefully.
PRAYER POINTS
1. My Father, every spiritual law I have made against myself, have mercy on me.
2. My Father, I reject every negative spiritual law made by others, especially those who brought me forth, against my life.
3. Lord, we break every spiritual law that is destroying our country.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 30-31; 2 Peter 2