DCLM Daily Manna – 20th November 2025 Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
Read DCLM Daily Manna – 20th November 2025, Thursday Devotional Message.
TOPIC: The Need For Intercessors
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KEY VERSE
“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none” (Ezekiel 22:30).
SCRIPTURE READING: Ezekiel 22:23-31
23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not [a]cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 The conspiracy of her [b]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured [c]people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26 Her priests have [d]violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [e]people, and to get dishonest gain.
28 Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.
30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
DCLM Daily Manna – 20th November 2025 | MESSAGE
Modern preachers and ministers often act as though they can be more loving and sympathetic than God, who personifies love. In preaching, they portray Him as an indulgent and permissive God who
looks away from the disobedience of “His people”; after all, the atonement of Jesus Christ has covered all their sins and transgressions. They talk so much about God’s love and His compassion and never want to teach that He is also the God of justice, ostensibly so that their listeners will not become “sin-conscious”. God has never condoned sin in His people.
The Scripture is clear: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The sin of nations or individuals attracts God’s displeasure. It must interest us that no one condemned sin and talked about God’s judgment as Jesus did, yet He personified love.
Our passage today reveals a balanced view of God’s attributes. On the one hand, He is gracious, merciful, and loving; and conversely, He judges and punishes sin without respect of persons or nations. Following the uniform testimony of Scripture, Moses categorically declared to Israel, “Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face” (Deuteronomy 7:9,10). Therefore, God’s love and mercy must not be taken for granted by Israel or the Church today.
Ezekiel boldly denounced the false prophets, the king, and the people, in his prophecy. God will judge them for their uncleanness, conspiracy against Him, robbery, killings, disobedience of the law, and disregard for the Sabbath.
God has no delight in the nation’s devastation; he therefore sought mediation – someone to intercede for the land, to avert His judgment, but he found none. He remains the same gracious God today. Who is willing to mediate for the nation? Who is willing to pay the price for divine intervention in the countries? The world still needs men like Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and Paul, who are willing to stake their lives, speak the truth to the high and low, turn others to God and stand in the gap for souls. You can be one, too!
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: God still needs intercessors!
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Ezekiel 32 – 35
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.
