DCLM Daily Manna – 8th October 2025 Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
Read DCLM Daily Manna – 8th October 2025, Wednesday Devotional Message.
TOPIC: See, Hear, Ponder And Declare
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KEY VERSE:
“And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.” – (Ezekiel 40:4).
SCRIPTURE READING: Ezekiel 40:1-19 (NIV)
1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there. 2 In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city. 3 He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. 4 The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”
5 I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits,[a] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.
6 Then he went to the east gate. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep. 7 The alcoves for the guards were one rod long and one rod wide, and the projecting walls between the alcoves were five cubits[b] thick. And the threshold of the gate next to the portico facing the temple was one rod deep.
8 Then he measured the portico of the gateway; 9 it[c] was eight cubits[d] deep and its jambs were two cubits[e] thick. The portico of the gateway faced the temple.
10 Inside the east gate were three alcoves on each side; the three had the same measurements, and the faces of the projecting walls on each side had the same measurements. 11 Then he measured the width of the entrance of the gateway; it was ten cubits and its length was thirteen cubits.[f] 12 In front of each alcove was a wall one cubit high, and the alcoves were six cubits square. 13 Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[g] from one parapet opening to the opposite one. 14 He measured along the faces of the projecting walls all around the inside of the gateway—sixty cubits.[h] The measurement was up to the portico[i] facing the courtyard.[j] 15 The distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its portico was fifty cubits.[k] 16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.
17 Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement. 18 It abutted the sides of the gateways and was as wide as they were long; this was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits[l] on the east side as well as on the north.
DCLM Daily Manna – 8th October 2025 MESSAGE:
In what is regarded as the deadliest aviation accident in history, in 1977, two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) in the Canary Islands. The collision resulted in the death of 583 people. It turned out that there was a miscommunication and misunderstanding of instructions between air traffic control and the pilots of KLM and Pan Am flights. This led to the KLM aircraft attempting to take off while the Pan Am plane was still taxing on the runway. Across various domains, misunderstanding instructions can have serious consequences.
This is why, in today’s text, Ezekiel was urged to pay complete attention to the instruction he was about to be given. Twenty-five years into their captivity, Ezekiel saw a vision in which he was brought to a high mountain in Israel. Fourteen years earlier, Jerusalem had been destroyed along with Israel’s magnificent temple. In the vision, he was shown a new Jerusalem, with its temple and the accompanying features of worship. An angel was assigned to him to measure the specifications of the new city and temple while he was required to record the details, presumably to serve as a guide for the construction of the new temple. He was to record the details outlined to him, noting the exact specifications and measurements of every part of the building.
Generally, the vision was meant to encourage the exiled Jews to look forward with hope. It also pointed to the blessed restorations that would be ushered in by the gospel dispensation under the headship of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. We, too, should learn an important lesson from the instruction to Ezekiel by the angel.
The Lord has a purpose in revealing His word to you. He wants you to share the Word and the vision with others. But this can only be done if you properly understand God’s word. This means that you must “behold with (your) eyes, and hear with (your) ears, and set your heart” upon all that the Lord reveals to you.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: More damage is done by ill-informed messengers.
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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.
