TOPIC: WHAT GOD REQUIRED FROM US 5:
Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 32, Day 5:
Thursday, 4 August, 2022.
TOPIC: WHAT GOD REQUIRED FROM US 5: He wants Obedience.
MEMORY VERSE:
Is. 1:19
“19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;”
BIBLE READING:
1 Sam. 15:22
“22 So Samuel said: “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.”
God cherishes Obedience than all our sacrifices and offerings. When He gives instructions He expect us to respond in faith by acting without a second thought. Every fulfillment on earth rest on obedience. God wants a total obedience without diluted thought or self reasoning.
From our Bible passage today, it was a simple instructions to the first king of Israel, King Saul. He was sent to destroy the amalekite, every living things therein. He went as sent but diluted the instructions. He spared the king and the sheep, thinking he can please God but that wasn’t included in the instruction. Prophet Samuel came as instructed by God and observed his obedience and discovered the King failed, he told him,
“22 … Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.”
When you disobey God’s instructions and drop your big tithes, offering, danced like King Sunny Ade in God’s presence, He is not moved, because Obedience to God, is better than sacrifice of riches and any currency. God cherishes you harkening to His voice than sacrifices. Are you obedient to God? Are you carrying out His instructions fully? Deuteronomy 28:1 says,
“1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
In obedience is where the blessings lies, not in sacrifice. Check your ways today if you are obedient to God.
God Bless you and Good Morning.
Happy Birthday to all celebrants and Happy Wedding Anniversary to those celebrating today. May you experience God’s fruitfulness in Jesus Mighty name, Amen.
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