MFM DAILY DEVOTIONAL - THE GOD OF PROVIDENCE

Mountain Top Life DAILY DEVOTIONAL

THE GOD OF PROVIDENCE

5^TH, OCTOBER 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 9:17-26, Jeremiah 10, Jeremiah 11:1-17, Colossians 1:24-29, Colossians 2:1-5, Psalm 117:1-2

 

FIRE SCRIPTURE:  Ruth 4:9-12

 

9 And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 

10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from [a]his position at the gate. You are witnesses this day.”

11 And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 

12 May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord will give you from this young woman.”

 

 

 

MEMORY VERSE:

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way”.   – Psalms 37:23

 

 

 

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
God is the faithful Provider of all good things in the life of His beloved.

 

 

PRAISE WORSHIP: Take a worship song as led by the HolySpirit.

 

 

 

PROPHETIC WORD FOR TODAY:

𝗜 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧, 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗦.

 

 

THE MESSAGE

God rules in the affairs of men. The life of a believer is not guided by luck or the stars but by the Saviour. God loves His own, cares for them and provides all their needs. He is called the God of providence because He knows in advance what the entire mankind is going to need (physically and spiritually), and He meets those needs. The first time we find the word "providence" in the Old Testament was in the story of Abraham's offering of Isaac upon the altar. In Genesis 22:7-8, "And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together." That was a great need in the life of Abraham and God providentially met that need by providing a ram for the sacrifice. Later, God also provided the supreme Lamb that was sacrificed to save mankind.

 

God accomplished His purposes through divine providence. He knew ahead that there would be famine in Egypt in the future and that He desired to preserve some people. He allowed Joseph's brothers to sell him as a slave and for Joseph to be in Egypt before the famine began. He also providentially enabled Joseph to interpret Pharaoh's dream, proffer solutions that impressed the king who made him a prime minister in Egypt. In Genesis 50:15-21, Joseph told his fearful brothers that God arranged all that happened to use him to save many people from death and destruction.

 

Similarly, Ruth's meeting with Boaz was not an accident. It was providentially arranged. The day she met Boaz, the owner of a field where she gleaned, Boaz received her kindly. God gave her favour with him and he later became her husband (Ruth 4:10). That was how Ruth came into the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The purpose of God in all things is the salvation of His elect people in Christ. So He uses everything in their lives also for their eternal good and salvation.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING

1. O God of Providence, appear in my life, in the name of Jesus.

2. I connect my life to the socket of divine favour, in the name of Jesus.

3. As You provided a ram for Abraham's sacrifice, O God of miracles, provide for all my needs now, in the name of Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

EVENING 

4. O God of Providence, help me as You helped Joseph, in the name of Jesus.

5. Father, make me a candidate of Your providential arrangement, in the name of Jesus.

6. O God, make me to be in the right place at the right time, in the name of Jesus.

7. I declare that my generation and I are blessed, in the name of Jesus.

 

DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY

©2022  MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, MOUNTAIN OF FIRE and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide