Scripture Union Daily Guide 5 May 2024 – Mind-Blowing Divine Promises!
Daily Guide Devotional For Today 5th May 2024 (Sunday)
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TOPIC: MIND-BLOWING DIVINE PROMISES!
OPENING PRAYER: As I read through this passage dear Lord, let your word bring transformation to my life.
SCRIPTURE: ISAIAH 51:1-16
Question(s) for Reflection
* Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 5 May 2024 OUTLINE
There are many precious promises of God in today’s passage. How many “will” are there? You may wish to study the promises the “wills” signify and work toward their realization in your own life. Note those in vs.3-6, 11 and 14.
Every believer is indeed cut out by the Lord. That is why we have His nature. But He works on us daily to make us into pleasant marbles. Therefore, look to Him in faith to perfect the work He has begun in you (Hebrews 12:2) and be comforted. Note God’s call to us in vs.4-6. What does He therefore expect of us? We can adhere longer to righteous living if we realize the truth and message of v.6. See also 1 John 2:17; 2 Peter 3:10, 11.
The fulfilment of God’s promises hinges squarely on this. Our Christian lifestyle is sure to attract insults (v.7) and sometimes, even untold hardships, but be encouraged by the truth of v.8 (see also Matthew 24:12-13). You can “clothe yourself with strength” by developing a lifestyle of rejoicing daily in the Lord (Nehemiah 8:10) and attending fellowship (Psalm 73:17). As we daily reflect on His might (vs. 9-10), believe in and appropriate His strength, v.11 shall come true in our lives. Point out from vs.12-13 some things that can rob us of God’s goodness.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
CAPTIVES OF ISRAEL, HEAR
1. Captives of Israel, hear,
Who now as exiles mourn;
See your almighty God appear
To hasten your return.
2. Jehovah is His name;
Lord of celestial hosts;
Let Heav’n that saving power proclaim
In which His Israel trusts.
3. Tho’ helpless now ye lie,
As in a dungeon thrown,
When parched with painful thirst ye cry,
And when your bread is gone,
4. Deliverance comes apace;
Ye shall not there expire;
Prepare to sing redeeming grace
With His triumphant choir.
5. He smote the raging sea
’Midst its tumultuous roar,
And paved His chosen troops a way
Safe to its distant shore.
6. In Him let Israel hope,
At whose supreme command
Graves yield their breathless captives up,
And seas become dry land.
Closing Prayer
Help me, Lord, to look only and always unto you and to appropriate your precious promises.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Romans 10:9 ‐ 10
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 126 – Psalms 89, 96, 100-101, 105, 132
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN May 5, 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
PLGRIMS, CHILDREN, MISSIONS AND SCHOOLS TRAINING THE TRAINERS
‘…be ye steadfast, Immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labour is not in vain’
1 Corinthians 15:58
THANK GOD FOR:
* The impact of training on the members of the Union.
* The successes recorded in mission fields, schools and children Ministries.
PRAY FOR:
* Steadfastness in faith and aglow in the spirit among schools, missions and children workers.
* Greater dedication to discipleship programmes in the Ministry among students and children.
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