Scripture Union Daily Guide 15 April 2024 – A Day of Reckoning Awaits All
Daily Guide Devotional For Today 15th April 2024 (Monday)
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TOPIC: A DAY OF RECKONING AWAITS ALL
OPENING PRAYER: As I read your word O Lord, grant me an insight and grace to do your will in Jesus name.
SCRIPTURE: ISAIAH 47:1-15
Question(s) for Reflection
* Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
* Q5: Is there any warning for me to heed?
* Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 15 APRIL 2024 OUTLINE
Babylon in this chapter is referred to as a “Virgin Daughter” implying that she was still unconquered. God in His sovereignty has used Babylon to punish Judah and Jerusalem. Years later, He will use the Medo-Persian Empire to punish the Babylonians. There are four key reasons why Babylon was punished:
1. God permitted Babylon to carry His people into exile but did not order her to be cruel and merciless.
2. They had become proud and arrogant thinking that nothing could ever destroy her prosperity. Because of their wealth and power, and the vast extent of their dominion they had regard for no one (vs.8,10).
3. She thought she was immune from detection and punishment. In other words, they thought they could outwit all mankind, and therefore might set all their enemies at defiance. But their wisdom and knowledge perverted them and turned them out of the way and made them forget themselves.
4. They placed their trust in their divinations, their magical and astrological arts, and sciences, for which the Chaldeans, above any other nation, were notorious, and from them other nations borrowed all their learning of that kind (v.49).
Practice/Word Application
And so? The Babylonians ignored God, justice, and mercy by hiding behind pride, wealth, and magic. How do people today try to hide from God?
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Turn Romans 11:33-36 into your personal prayers.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Jeremiah 30:17
“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.”
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 106 – Psalms 56, 120, 140-142
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN APRIL 15, 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
THE NATIONAL PRAYER SECRETARY
” But continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” – 2 Pet 3:18
THANK GOD FOR:
1. His faithfulness mercy and grace toward the National Prayer Secretary, Sis Badejoko and her family.
2. His divine keeping and protection of the national prayer secretary and her family.
PRAY FOR:
Pray for\/that: 1. Nurturing grace.
2. God to increase His grace and strength on her to face the challenges of the office.
3. She will secure divine leading and focus to co-ordinate the affairs of her department
4 . Protection and good health for her and her family.
5. Journey mercies in all her journeys.
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