Topic: The Compassionate Touch [DCLM Daily Manna 23 January 2019 Daily Devotional by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi]

Text: Luke 5:12-16 (KJV)

Key Verse: “And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean” (Luke 5:12,13a).

MESSAGE:

A local pastor witnessed to a palm-wine tapper for years to no avail. He would not receive the gospel nor come to church, no, not even on the Lord’s day. The gain from his infamous trade he esteemed more highly than the souls of many promising young men who are now turned to drunkards in the small village. He fell off a tall palm-tree as he went up to collect the product one Sunday morning. He came down with injury to his spine. The doctors pronounced his case to be hopeless. In hospital, he sent for the village pastor whose preaching he had spurned these many years. The pastor arrived immediately, prayed for him and rally church members round him in an intense prayer meeting for his recovery. Three days later, doctors said he got better. About six weeks later, he was ready to go home. Christ had touched his soul and healed his pain not minding his shameful past.

The leper in our text must have heard of the ministry of Jesus. Although he knew He had power to heal him, he was not sure Jesus would be willing to touch him, probably because of his putrefying sores. He was ignorant of the intense love, mercy and compassion sore. He was ignorant of the intense love, mercy and compassion of our Lord. Being humbled by his hopeless situation, he cried out to Jesus for help: “Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.”

The response from Jesus is ever so reassuring. That is Christ’s same answer to us whenever we turn to Him for help in our distressed, helpless state. He will never turn away those who penitently come to Him. Jesus is a compassionate Saviour. If you are suffering, remember that He feels your pain with you. Your sin is more destructive and debasing than leprosy but He is willing to touch you. Humble yourself and confess your sins to the Lord. Sincerely ask Him to cleanse you from your defilement and heal your soul today.

Thought For The Day: Ask what He wills for your life and stick by it.

Bible Reading In One Year: Exodus 23-25

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Topic: Uncommon Weapon [TREM Devotional 23 January 2019]

“And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men there with” Judges 15:15 KJV

Samson used a fresh jawbone that was still very slippery. You know that you cannot fight with a slippery weapon. But when the anointing is upon you, you can do anything. You can do all things through Christ that strengthens you because what is required is just for the anointing to rest upon that thing. It is unnatural to fight with a jawbone of an ass. Even if it is strong enough to defeat one person what of one thousand persons? More so, the one he used was slippery. A slippery object can’t be firm in your hand. Beloved, when you are moving with God and carrying out His assignment, sometimes He delivers into your hands some unnatural weapons; some uncommon ideas that may not make sense. All you need do is to be open to it.

Oftentimes, God wants to put in our hands, what we will use to advance the Kingdom but many a time, our mind gets on the way. It was when the Spirit of the Lord came mightily on him that he found the weapon. God, sometimes, may be asking us to use methods or weapons that don’t make sense. That is why we need to be sensitive. One of the things that hinder believers from moving in the supernatural is lack of sensitivity. When we talk of the supernatural, don’t limit it to raising the dead or healing the blind. When you are able to discover new things and new ways of doing things, then you are living in the supernatural. When your business can thrive and make a profit, in famine and difficulties, you are living in the supernatural.

But oftentimes, we are not sensitive; we want to figure out everything and in the process, we miss some supernatural things. Understand that some supernatural things can also look so natural that you can only know by the Spirit of God. That is why sensitivity is important.

Further Reading: Judges 15:11-20

Daily Bible Reading: Morning- Exodus 7-8/ Evening- Matthew 15:1-20

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Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.

Topic: The Ministry Of John The Baptist [Andrew Wommack Devotional 23 January 2019 ]

Matthew 3:1, “In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea.”

Text: MT. 3:1-12; MK. 1:1-8; LK. 3:1-18

These scriptures record the ministry of John the Baptist. He spent thirty years in the deserts of Judaea preparing for this ministry. Then it only lasted about six months before He baptized Jesus and men started following the Messiah. Yet in those brief six months He turned an entire nation to God.

He did not take the normal approach and go where the people were. He was out in the wilderness and the people came to him. He had no advertisements other than the testimonies of those who had heard him. He wasn’t a flashy evangelist wearing the latest styles of the day. He didn’t do anything the way the religious leaders taught it was supposed to be done in their seminaries, yet it worked.

In six short months, an entire nation was stirred in anticipation of their Messiah through a man who was not “normal.”

One thing that keeps many of us from being used by God is our “herd instinct.” We are so afraid of what someone else will think. We try to be like everyone else and then we wonder why we are getting the same results as everyone else. That’s not smart.

John was completely yielded to the Holy Spirit and he succeeded against all the odds. Dare to follow the Holy Spirit, even against the crowd, and you will get supernatural results, too!

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Topic: Wait Upon the Lord [Billy Graham Devotional 23 January 2019]

Glory in the Lord; O worshipers of God, rejoice. Search for him and for his strength, and keep on searching! — Psalm 105:3,4 (TLB)

Jerome, one of the early Christians, said, “Ignorance of the Bible means ignorance of Christ.” Job once said, “I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” Jeremiah said, “Thy words were found and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” To read the Bible one needs a “quiet time.” Christian students often ask, “How do you maintain your spiritual high? What do you do on a daily basis?” I tell them about my “quiet time.” Some days it is in the early-sometimes late-morning, sometimes evening.

Without it, my Christian life would be a wilderness. Isaiah said, “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31). So gain the strength of eagles, as the prophet suggested. Set a time each day when you can spend a few minutes alone with God.

Prayer for the day: Dear Lord, teach us to wait upon You, that we may know Your strength.

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