Mobile Daily Devotional With Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 23, Day 2
Monday, 7 June, 2021.
TOPIC: TAKING THE RIGHT STEP
Memory Verse: Ps. 37:23
“23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way.”
Bible Reading: Esther 4:13-16
“13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!”
OBEDIENCE TO ELDERS
God lives in heaven but attached people to us in order to guide our steps. Some might be professionals, some illiterate, other might even be our parent, Pastors, in-laws and many more. Elders are always available around us to guide us into taking the right step. Many elders have been hated for giving right directives which looks contrary to our intentions.
Esther was a slave without a parent except an uncle who brought her up and directed her till she emerges as the Queen. Despite her position she still listens to him. She has a director who showed her the right steps to take. She so much respected and believed in this man called Mordecai. The man gave her the right steps to take in order to rescue the Jews from the hand of Harman and his destructive plans and she followed suit.
Do you have an elder guiding your steps? Do you respect and listen to the elders? Because you are richer and educated than they are, do you still follow their leading? Note, The Elders can see farther than you. King Jeroboam in, 1 Kings 12, rejected the advice of the elders and accepted that of his friend and this step caused the breaking out of ten tribes of Israel leaving him with two tribes. Prophet Moses was guided in the right step by Hus in-law, Jethro, and moses lived longer, Ex. 18. God does speaks through our Elders. Do you have elders around you? Listen to them. You can’t have knowledge than your parent, listen to them, they are guiding you in the right step.
Father, surround me with good Elders who will lead me into taking right steps, In Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
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