Scripture Union Daily Guide 22 June 2024: Cleanliness
Daily Guide Devotional For Today 22nd June 2024 (Saturday)
TODAY’S TOPIC: CLEANLINESS
OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, I request that you help me to encounter you as I meditate on your word.
SCRIPTURE: LEVITICUS 11:1-23
Question(s) for Reflection
* Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
* Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 22 June 2024 Outline:
God gave the Israelites many ceremonial laws so they may avoid defiling themselves and be in a right state to fellowship with Himself. Our God is holy and detests uncleanness. He wants His people to be holy just as He is. Just as a community sets out guidelines for living to ensure order and peaceful coexistence, so does God.
According to today’s passage, what would make the Israelites unclean/defiled? Note that the list of forbidden food cuts across all categories of creatures: land animals (vs.1-8), water animals (vs.9-12), birds (vs.13-19) and insects (vs.20-23). What does this teach us about what we eat and how we eat?
Although these laws no longer apply to believers in Christ (1 Corinthians 8:8; Romans 14:17; 1 Timothy 4:4), we are required to be holy and to keep ourselves away from things that defile us (1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 1:14-16). Read Mark 7:14-23 and notice the things that truly defile man.
Practice/Word Application
And so? Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
For Reflection
Action: Think of the way you have been living. Confess and repent of anything that has defiled you and purpose to live a holy and undefiled life.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Prayer for the week
* Pray that the church will stay away from the pollution of the world • Ask that the Lord will purge His church and make her to be a pillar of truth • Pray that the Lord will build His church and never allow the Kingdom of hell prevail against it
* Pray that the church will stay away from the pollution of the world • Ask that the Lord will purge His church and make her to be a pillar of truth • Pray that the Lord will build His church and never allow the Kingdom of hell prevail against it
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Jeremiah 17:14
“Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.”
One-Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 174 – 1 Kings 12-14
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN 22 JUNE 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
YOUTH DISCIPLESHIP
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
THANK GOD FOR:
● The young hearts and minds entrusted to our care.
● The opportunity to disciple and guide them in the ways of the Lord.
PRAY FOR:
● Wisdom and patience in discipling and mentoring the youth.
● The seeds of faith sown in the young hearts will take root and flourish.
PRAY AGAINST:
● Distractions and temptations that may lead the youth astray.
● Any hindrances to effective youth discipleship.
