DCLM Daily Manna – 27 September 2025 Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
Read DCLM Daily Manna – 27 September 2025, Saturday Devotional Message.
TOPIC: Don’t Idolise Miracles
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KEY VERSE:
“And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.” – (1 Kings 17:24).
SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Kings 17:17-24 (NIV)
17 Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing. 18 She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
19 “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. 20 Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?” 21 Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”
22 The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. 23 Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
24 Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”
DCLM Daily Manna – 27 September 2025 MESSAGE:
The way people react when faced with confounding situations in life, often shows what they think of God. It is very easy for people to proclaim faith, trust, and confidence in God until they are confronted by challenges that defy all rational thinking. Some waver at the certainty of God’s promises, while others either begin to question God’s power or hastily walk away from His presence.
The two prominent personalities in the passage, Prophet Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, best illustrate this point. Despite being in the presence of the prophet, which was accompanied by God’s supernatural act of provision in the time of famine, the widow still questioned the prophetic authority of Elijah, following her son’s death. On his part, Elijah’s prayer subtly accused the Lord of unleashing evil on his hosts.
Both seem to display ignorance of the mammoth evidence of God’s goodness, preferring to judge Him only on account of the anguish occasioned by the tragedy of the moment. Waiting for signs, wonders, and miracles, such as hoping to see the dead come back to life again before believing God’s word, is not just an act of disrespect but distrust that displeases the Lord. Heaven has already mercifully released blessings on the widow’s household. But, alas, as another crisis emerges, she slides into unbelief, forgetting the Source of the miracle of food supply. The prophet also momentarily forgot the power of God in sending birds to feed him by the brook.
Man has enough proof of the power and ability of the omnipotent God to meet all the needs of those who follow Him in sincere faith and believe in the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. It is for such people that God alleviates their anxieties, no matter how life-threatening their situation. We can indeed, rely on the Lord’s numerous promises when we need help from heaven. We must not drive ourselves into fear, panic, and doubt when obstacles come our way.
Believers must not act like those who trust God when everything seems to be working well, only in places where they will hear prosperity teachings, or are promised deliverance, healing, signs, and wonders. Rather, the heaven-focused Christian must be satisfied with the greatest miracle of all time: salvation. This opens the gates to all the other miracles, culminating eventually, in spending eternity in heaven.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Those who pursue temporal things on earth will miss the greatest miracle at the dawn of the rapture.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Ecclesiastes 1-3
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.
