Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 24, day 1,
Sunday, 13 June, 2021
TOPIC: YOU ARE REPLACEABLE: Train Your Child
Memory Verse: 1 Kings 19:18
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
Bible Reading: 1 Samuel 2:27-35
27 Then a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? 28 Did I not choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod before Me? And did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? 29 Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?’ 30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the LORD says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 32 And you will see an enemy in My dwelling place, despite all the good which God does for Israel. And there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 33 But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age. 34 Now this shall be a sign to you that will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them. 35 Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in My heart and in My mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before My anointed forever.
It is a bad thing to perform below the expectation of God. God is merciful but His mercies can expire if taken for granted. God hasn’t created who he can’t replace and no one is indispensable to God. God can change anything at any time. That you are in favour with God today doesn’t mean you can’t be replaced. Every body has a time frame to function for God but you can choose to be expired before your time, I pray with everyone reading this devotional today, myself inclusive, we will not expire before completing our mission on Earth in Jesus Mighty Name, Amen.
Before God replaced Eli household as a priest, He gave him information about his children behaviours. God warned him before the destruction and the replacement. When God was tired of showing him mercy He replaced him with Samuel, a young boy for that matter,
1 Sam. 3:19-21,
“19 So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.
Why was He replaced? God said, He honour his children more than Him, 1 Sam. 2:29, are you ready to be replaced because of your children’s behaviour? Hope you know God is also interested in the future of those children as He is interested in yours? How are you handling the upbringing of your children? Will you be replaced by God or your children will take over from you?
Father, give me the grace for parenting, I don’t want to be replaced by you, I want my children to take over from me, so help me Lord, Amen.
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