CAC LIVING WATER-PATTERN OF GOD'S WORK 2

LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL

PATTERN OF GOD'S WORK 2
12^TH JANUARY, 2022

EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Genesis 28-30

READ: Genesis 6:13-22

13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 

14 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. 

15 And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

 16 You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.CA

 17 And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die. 

18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 

19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 

20 Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 

21 And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”

22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

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MEMORISE: Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did .(Genesis 6:22).

EXPOSITION

There is no child that regularly acts contrary to the parent’s laydown rules who would enjoy the good side of such parents. No right thinking, disciplined parent be happy with disobedience, most especially, at the level of recalcitrance. No wonder many children find it difficult to make headway in life and their chosen careers. It is imperative for children to be godly and have good relationship with their parents through willing obedience, so that they can receive parental approval and blessings.

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Among the people of the then world who saw the Flood, only Noah and his family found God’s favour, because they imbibed God’s righteousness and were saved. Isn’t that too pathetic that from the most likely on earth, then? It would have been worse, if God didn’t get anyone, though that couldn’t have negatively affected God, either. Receive the grace to be a true representative of God, here, in Jesus’ name.

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We can see the hallmark of Noah’s compliance and conformity to God’s holy standard when God eventually asked him to make an Ark. Noah was so meticulous to the extent that he carried out the task to detail without leaving out a single instruction. He used the specified wood, the measurement, and he followed the boarding order. And the Bible confirms his compliance to the pattern or description God gave him (v. 22).

Deviation (do it as you wish or as it appeals to you) characterises the work of God in many people’s hands today. They no longer find it convenient to go by what God shows. People want to do it their own way, or mellow down God’s standard. Don’t we inject our own interpretations into God’s Word, and still make it look like it is God speaking? If God will not use Noah to judge us on the last day, there is that urgency to consider how we are doing His work, and make necessary amends.

PRAYER POINT:

1. Give me Your Spirit, O Lord, to always go by the picture You are showing to me in relation to Your work in my hands.

2. Deliver Your ministers from the temptation to do it as the world is doing, or showing it, O Lord.

3. Pray for CAC Odusona Region, our father in the Lord, the Superintendent, and its officers at the various levels, as led by the Spirit of God.

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

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