Scripture Union Daily Guide 20th March 2025: Losing in order to gain
Daily Guide Devotional For Today 20 March 2025 (Thursday)
Welcome to Scripture Union Daily Guide Devotional today. As you read, study and meditate, may the Lord Almighty reveal His essence to you in Jesus’ Name, Amen!
Scripture Union Daily Guide 20th March 2025 Today’s Devotional
Topic: Losing in order to gain
Opening Prayer: Dear Lord, I pray that you sanctify my spirit, soul and body as I read your word in Jesus name.
Scripture: Matthew 16:21-28
Question(s) For Meditation:
► Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
► Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 20th March 2025 Outline
Half knowledge is a killer. The disciples now know that Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One. The Messiahship of Jesus means suffering and death and then, glorification. A suffering Messiah, however, makes no slightest sense to Peter and his colleagues hence his reaction in Matthew 16:22. He sought desperately to dissuade Jesus from fulfilling His mission much like Satan’s temptation in Matthew 4:8-10.
Both received the same harsh response. Peter, just a moment ago, spoke according to the special revelation from God (Matthew 16:16,17). For as long as we are still in this mortal body, we must constantly depend on God for every word that proceeds from our mouth. Notice the three demands of discipleship in Matthew 16:24-25. Suffering and hardships are never compatible with our human nature.
However, God often employs them for our spiritual training and discipline. Read James 1:2-4,12. We may not need to pray for them but we can allow God to train or discipline us with them as He sees fit. This is the true mark of discipleship as declared by Jesus in these verses. At the end there are rewards (Matthew 15:26-28).
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer:
Help me, Lord, to consider every other thing worthless, compared with the benefits I derive from giving my life to you.
One Year Bible Reading Guide:
Numbers 29-30, Acts 12.
One Year Bible Reading Guide, Hard Copy Version:
Deuteronomy 28-29
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN FOR 20TH MARCH 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
S.U DEVOTIONALS
“Your word is a lamp to guide me and lamp for my feet”. Psalms 119:105
THANK GOD FOR:
* The wisdom and inspiration upon the writers of our devotionals all over the globe. • All that it takes to bring them out in a complete state.
PRAY AGAINST:
* Indebtedness to SUPB and issue of preferring other devotionals to ours.
Bible Verse of the Day, Tuesday 18th March 2025
