No Second Affliction: Devotion for Wednesday February 19, 2020

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Devotion for Wednesday February 19, 2020

Topic: No Second Affliction                              

Text: Nahum 1:9 – 13

We serve a jealous God who avenges for us and delivers us from bondage. Though our God is slow to anger but when He is angry, heaven and earth trembles. In spite of that, our God is good (Nahum 1:7). This chapter of Nahum expresses God’s anger against Assyrians (Nineveh).

Here in our text, God asserted that He knows all the plans of the people of Nineveh (Nahum 1:9). He searches and knows the intents of our hearts too (1 Chronicles 29:8). Nahum told the Assyrians that any attempt at resisting the All Powerful God is insane because He is not like other opponents they have conquered. God protects His people (Isaiah 37:23 – 29).

Affliction shall not arise the second time has Judah as the object of God’s blow (Nahum 1:12) and it refers to an end to their punishment. This shows that our God is merciful and gracious. Have you been under God’s punishment because of sin and disobedience, He is telling you today that He has remembered mercy and will no longer allow that affliction again. He says that you will not experience misfortune and failure again. That is God’s assurance for you today. Trust Him to do it.

Food for Thought: “As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them” – Charles Spurgeon

Memory verse: Nahum 1:9

Prayer: Pray against spirit of failure, affliction and misfortune in your life and family in Jesus name.

GOD IS JEALOUS: Devotion for Thursday November 12, 2015

GOD IS JEALOUS            Thursday November 12, 2015

Text: Nahum 1:1 – 8        Memory verse: v 2

The theme of this poem was the certainty and severity of God’s judgment on the enemies of His people. The prophet begins by describing God's awful attributes of righteousness and omnipotent power; because it is from these that the destruction of Nineveh comes. Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon (1:4) were places known for their lush fertility (Amos 1:2; 4:1; Ezekiel 31:16). Divine wrath is not indiscriminate (1:7) because His mercies appertain to the righteous.

The Lord is inherently good and a stronghold for the righteous who seek refuge in His person. God promised to make an end of Nineveh (1:8, sweeps away). The Greek historian Ctesias recounted that the overthrow of Nineveh took place at a time of great flooding that swept away the city’s gates and the foundations of the king’s palace. This should make us understand that God is jealous whose words are sure to fulfill. Any hope in this?

Food for Thought: Isaiah 59:18

Prayer: Sow your fear in my heart, O Lord, to understand that you’re jealous.

A BAD TESTIMONY: Devotion for Monday September 14, 2015

A BAD TESTIMONY      Monday September 14, 2015

Text: Ezekiel 3:1 – 9         Memory verse: v 7

Ezekiel was told that he will receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. Ezekiel must speak all that, and that only, which God spoke to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended but warn them out of love.

God gave a testimony about Israel that they will not repent because of their impudent and hard-heartedness. What testimony can God give about you? The people of Nineveh repented after Jonah had preached but Israel was unwilling to do same. Are you like that who will not be moved despite all the preaching you hear? The testimony of God is what matters about us.

Food for Thought: What can God say about you today?

Prayer: God my Father, grant me the heart to believe, fear and honour you

Salvation is of God

SALVATION IS OF GOD            Monday June 22, 2015

Text: Jonah 2:1 – 10               Memory verse: v 9

When you encounter God in a wrong way you will always have a sad story to tell (compare Matthew 21:44). The experience of Jonah when he tried to flee from God is what no other sensible person will want to pass through. For trying to flee from the call to go to Nineveh, God ordered a big fish to swallow Jonah (1:17). He prayed inside the belly of the fish acknowledging God’s power and supremacy over all His creatures and asked Him for deliverance and he will make sacrifice to Him.

Our deliverance from danger, preservation of life, recovery from sickness, and redemption of the soul from the power, guilt, and pollution of sin, is from God. He alone is the Saviour; He alone is the Deliverer; for all salvation is from the Lord. When we have proper understanding of this very fact, it will make us always to go to Him when the need arises.

Obviously, Jonah was not in a position to bargain with God again. Instead, he simply thanked God for preserving his life in the belly of the fish while asking for his deliverance. Our troubles should cause us to cling tightly to God, not attempt to bargain our way out of the pain. We can thank and praise God for what He has already done for us, and for His love and mercy and the ones He will still do. This will be a tonic to releasing the blessing of God upon our lives.

Food for Thought: “Salvation comes from God alone” – Latin Phrase

Prayer: My God and my Father, salvation belongs to you alone. Grant me that salvation of eternal life and deliverance over my problems and fears.