FEAR GOD AND DO HIS WILL 

Bible Reading: JEREMIAH 11:15-23

“Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daugh- ters shall die by famine”

Those who can rightly claim to be God’s children are those who fear Him and do His will always. Those who selectively obey Him can never be reckoned as His Children. In verse 15 of our text, God wonders why those who call themselves His beloved would associate with lewdness, interpreted as spiritual fornication, with the heathen. Their purity had deserted them as a result of their affinity with evil people.

A Christian can not declare the law and expect its blessedness if he is not keeping the law. He is at best a nominal Christian, denied the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit as a result of his compromise. In our passage, Israel is also described as having left its former state. The nation was compared to a fine-looking olive tree. But she mingled with corrupt neighbouring nations and stopped being productive. No spiritual fruit was produced again from the tree. It should be uprooted and destroyed according to the ruling of the Almighty. If a person is saved, he must stay under the canopy of the blood- marked environment of holiness.

As the children of Israel in Egypt were asked to stay indoors after sprinkling the lamb’s blood on their door posts to escape the wrath of the destroyer or forfeit the protection of God, so the Christian can only be secure if he abides in the Lord. Two lessons stand out: The doctrine of eternal security is erroneous. Secondly the true faithful, committed and fearless preacher of the truth of the gospel can never be silent. Stand on the side of the righteous. Faithfully profess the Word and live the life of righteousness. Be earnest in avoiding the ranks of those who selectively serve God, who foolishly believe that God will always wink at their iniquities. They will be shocked in the end.

God hastens His word in the mouth of His true servants.

PRAYER POINTS

Pray and thank the Lord for His Will that no man should perish but that all should come to repentance, for the great plan of redemption that He sent Jesus to die and consummate through His blood even as you thank Him for the blood price of redemption and salvation for the souls of men in Jesus name.

Pray and ask that the Lord bestows a deeper spiritual hunger in you even as He draws your spirit to fervent prayer. That He grants you the genuine faith and the fervent desire for prayer and that He would visit you again mightily, thereby renewing your vision to the power in His holy name, in Jesus’ name.

Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to inspire you with new zeal and commitment to the Lord in Jesus name.

Declare that you are baptized afresh with the love of God, and that you will be visited again and again with miracles, signs and wonders even as He gives you fresh insight and revelation into the fundamentals of the Kingdom in Jesus name.

Pray that the spirit of boldness is visited upon the church again to stand for the kingdom and declare our redeemers counsel according to His leading and what His word declares in Jesus name.

Decree and declare that every plan of the enemy targeted at distracting or destroying the church or that which would prevent her from taking her place in leading others to Christ is destroyed and defeated. Declare that the Lord’s Mountain will indeed rise and be established above every other in Jesus name.

Let us cover our community and loved ones in the blood of the Lamb that speaks better things, ask that they are convicted and they receive the boldness to make that decision to follow Christ even as they are now set free from every spiritual blindness in Jesus’ mighty name.

Thank God for answered prayers.

Good morning and have a peaceful day

Bro. Tony

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