Scripture Union Daily Guide 24th December 2024: Prophesying On Our Children
Daily Guide Devotional For Today 24 December 2024 (Tuesday)
TOPIC: PROPHESYING ON OUR CHILDREN
SCRIPTURE: Plant my steps in the sure promises of your word today, dear Lord.
SCRIPTURE: LUKE 1:67-80
Question(s) for Reflection
* 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 24th December 2024 Outline
Being filled with the Holy Spirit, Zechariah burst into this song of praise with several prophetic statements about his son and the promised Messiah. Examine the various ways in which he appropriated God’s word on the child from other prophesies: v.76 (Malachi 3:1), v.77 (Jeremiah 31:34; compare Mark 1:4), v.78 (Malachi 4:2) and v.79 (Isaiah 9:2; compare Matthew 4:16). Zechariah sets us another important example on the need to declare God’s word concerning our children.
Zechariah’s prophecy also reflects the angel’s message in Luke 1:15–17 and summarizes God’s salvation plan through the promised Messiah. It also expresses the Jewish hope that the Messiah would be militant and would rescue them from their oppressive foreign rulers. However, a greater enemy of God’s purposes is sin. Once we are rescued from this, there is the liberty to serve God without fear or guilt.
John decided to go into the wilderness away from economic, political, and hypocritical religious leaders to prepare himself for the task ahead (v 80).
Practice/Word Application
For reflection: Although God has unlimited powers, He chooses to work through frail human beings who begin as helpless babies. Do not limit what God can do through you as you surrender your life for His use.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Father, the future of this generation is known to you. Use me to affect it positively.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Isaiah 45:6
“That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.”
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 359-2 Peter, Jude
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN 24 DECEMBER 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
HE WILL KEEP YOU
He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1
THANK GOD FOR:
‣ Always fulfilling his promise of keeping us safe night and day
‣ Journey mercies in all our trips this year
PRAY FOR:
‣ Safety in all our journeys, especially during the festive season and end of year
‣ Bind the activities of wicked men on all our roads and around us
‣ God will show us His mercy and kindness more than ever before
