LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL
DELIVERED FOR A PURPOSE 1
11TH , JULY 2022
- World Population Day & International Town
Criers Day
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Proverbs 7-9
READ: Acts 5:17-21
17 But the high priest rose up and all who
were his supporters, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and being filled with
jealousy and indignation and rage,
18 They seized and arrested the apostles
(special messengers) and put them in the public jail.
19 But during the night an angel of the
Lord opened the prison doors and, leading them out, said,
20 Go, take your stand in the temple
courts and declare to the people the whole doctrine concerning this Life (the
eternal life which Christ revealed).
21 And when they heard this, they
accordingly went into the temple about daybreak and began to teach. Now the
high priest and his supporters who were with him arrived and called together
the council (Sanhedrin), even all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they
sent to the prison to have [the apostles] brought.
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MEMORISE: “Go, take your stand in the temple courts
and declare to the people the whole doctrine concerning this Life (the eternal
life which Christ revealed).” - Acts 5:20
EXPOSITION
After being used by God to effect the healing of the about
40-year-old once lame-from-birth man, Christ's gospel spread like wild fire,
and the devil can never be happy with such. Thus, he arranged threatening
persecution for God's servants (Acts 4v1ff). That couldn't stop the church.
Instead, it kept increasing, and God ensured the sanctity (5:1-11). Miracles
followed (vv. 12-16), thus causing those who had chosen to be God's enemies to
be *filled with indignation* (v.17), so much that they imprisoned the Apostles
(v.18).
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Far beyond the
joy of being released from detention by divine power (v. 18), there is
something more interesting. The angel instrumental in releasing them commanded,
*Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the Words of this life*
(v.20). Why such a clear injunction?
Whatever
deliverance the church individually and corporately enjoys today is for neither
frivolities nor sit-down-and-look. God never allows miracles without purpose.
Everything He allows is targeted at fulfilling His eternal redemptive purpose.
Whenever God chooses to deliever you in anyway/ form, it is for you to go all
out, immediately, to tell the world about His greatness, goodness and faithfulness,
in fact, *... all the Words of this life.* Jesus is the Life (Jn.14v6) who must
be spread abroad through our deliverance testimonies.
No one receives
anything except from above (Jn.3v27). Okay. Why not use your experience of
God's power to broadcast His Person and Power to the world as today marks World
Population Day & International Town Criers Day.
The more of such
you do, the more of God's spectacular interventions you enjoy. Don't hide
testimonies of His greatness and goodness to you.
PRAYER POINT:
1. Thank God for His unfailing promises to deliever
and bless you all the way.
2. Pray for the grace never to abuse the privileges
of being divinely delivered, anywhere, anytime.
3. Pray that churches would be more focused on
revealing God's glory and the Gospel of Christ through the miracles He
releases.
DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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