DEEPER LIFE DAILY MANNA FOR TODAY
Daily Manna by Pastor Kumuyi is a daily devotional sets out to provide spiritual nourishment for the believers who truly seek God and would walk closely with Him.
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Text: Judges 3:1-11 (KJV)
1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
KEY VERSE: Judges 3:1,4
“Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, … And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD…”
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DAILY MANNA FOR TODAY
The children of Israel were to possess the land which the Lord promised them – a land flowing with milk and honey. But, because of their penchant for compromise and backsliding, the Lord refused to drive away all the nations which they were to dispossess of the land. God decided to leave some of these nations in order to use them to “…prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.” Unfortunately, however, the Israelites failed the test. Instead of keeping the commandments of God, they inter-married with the heathen and did contrary to the commandment of God. “Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia…” (Judges 3:8).
Sometimes, the people God leaves in our life or allows to be around us might have been designed by God to test us and develop desirable qualities – godly virtues – in us. Some pine, murmur and even pray that God should move them away or take them from us. At other times, we place ourselves on a spiritual pedestal that is not true. We brag like Peter only to deny the Lord when we are tested. How we need to be true to ourselves and to the prompting of Him Who walks in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. Life itself is a school; we must be tested. But we don’t have to fail all the time. If we trust the Lord all times, watch and pray like Abraham, Job, Joseph, Daniel, Shadrach and Abednego, then we can pass the tests of life and move higher in our walk with the Lord.
Tests and trials are necessary drills that strengthen the soldiers of Christ. You can be more than a conqueror, through Christ Who loves you and thereby reign in life through the daily strength He gives. The pilgrim who lives by the faith of the Son of God, looking unto Him always will always triumph in life. You can pass your life tests and move higher like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God’s Church needs urgent divine intervention.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Matthew 14-16
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