DCLM Daily Manna 11th July 2025 Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
Read DCLM Daily Manna Devotional 11th July 2025, Friday Message.
TOPIC: God’s Feast
KEY VERSE:
“And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you… that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.” – (Ezekiel 39:17).
READ: Ezekiel 39:17-29 (NIV)
17 “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan. 19 At the sacrifice I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. 20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.
21 “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them. 22 From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. 23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.
25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob[a] and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name. 26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid. 27 When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations. 28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
MESSAGE:
Some decades ago, missionaries in a desert kingdom used the occasion of a sumptuous feast organised by the monarch to explain to some Arabs why they and their families had left their civilised Western Hemisphere abodes to live and preach Christ in the desert. In addition to teaching salvation, the Christians provided education and built hospitals, roads, and small industries. The king thought the followers of Christ did all that to ‘bribe’ their way into heaven. But the missionaries said heaven was already prepared for them by Christ and that going worldwide to preach Him was to appreciate Him for giving them heaven, not to earn it. They were obeying His command to reveal Him to the whole of humanity. They said they would evangelise anywhere to honour Him.
In the latter days, God would also prepare an excellent feast for His people, Israel. He will put down the armies of those warring in rebellion against the land of His chosen. These rebels are identified as Gog and Magog. They are the princes of the world who have been feasting on the children of Jacob and, by extension, on the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. They had seen Israel as easy prey, unaware that the land was only experiencing the Lord’s wrath for their transgressions. But, according to Ezekiel’s prophecy, Israel’s restoration was on the way when God would invite His people to a party to feast on their enemies.
At the time of God’s utterances, Israel was in captivity in Babylon. But at the feast, the Lord says He would explain His actions and let the children of Israel know, “I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land…Neither will I hide my face any more from them.”
As with the case of Israel, believers can rest assured that there may be turbulence on their path but in the end, the loving providence of God will prevail. God has the best interest of His people at heart and will chastise them where necessary but will restore them when they turn to Him.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It is comforting to know that everything the Lord allows is for our good.
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About Author – Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.