Scripture Union Daily Guide 4 June 2024 (Tuesday) Devotional Message
TOPIC: The Guilt Offering!
OPENING PRAYER: May my heart, O Lord, be receptive to your word as I meditate on it.
SCRIPTURE READING: Leviticus 5:14-6:7
Question(s) for Reflection
* Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
* Q2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?
God specially identified some guilts His people might commit and there are some vital lessons to learn from such. First, it may be unintentional, but the offender is equally guilty. No man can claim to be righteous before God (Isaiah 64:6). Causing a damage to sacred property requires that one offers a guilt offering, and make restitution (vs.15,16).
This category of sin requires sacrifice of a ram (vs.15, 6:6). Furthermore, what constitutes a guilt goes beyond damaging sacred property. In the way we conduct business, interpersonal, and social engagements may bring about some guilt in our dealings.
Read 6:1-5 again and do some soul-searching in your religious and social duties to fellowman. Are you guilty of any of these, including your bank transactions and the way you handle finances entrusted to your care? Public officials might think that when they embezzle public funds, they do it against the public. Today, we learn that whatever we do against the people we serve, either in Church or government, we do it against the Lord.
Read the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10 and see how Jesus handled this category of guilt in the home of a public official. God calls us to the same standard of Zacchaeus for all those who have made themselves rich through mismanagement of public funds.
Closing Prayer
Jesus my High Priest, please forgive all the sins I have committed (6:7) and cleanse me with your precious blood that was shed on the cross for all mankind.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with 1 Peter 5:6 ‐ 7
One Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 156- Proverbs 7-9
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN – Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
MISSION AND MISSIONARIES
Withal praying for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ…that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.
Col.4:4,5.
THANK GOD FOR:
* The successes of all the outreaches and mission works in all the mission field.
* Preserving the lives of missionaries in hostile countries, particularly those in the Northern part of Nigeria.
PRAY FOR:
* God will release greater grace and strength upon all the missionaries and HOD mission department as they on in the mission work.
* God will grant them open doors and make the gospel reach the unreached and divine release of all missionaries held captive in country of the world.
PRAY AGAINST:
* Any form of attack on any of missionaries in the mission field.