Scripture Union Daily Guide 13th April 2024 (Saturday) Devotional Message
Scripture Union Daily Guide 13th April 2024 TOPIC: THE GOD WHO SAVES US
OPENING PRAYER: Lord, let the light of your word shine into my life as I meditate on your word.
SCRIPTURE: ISAIAH 45:14-25(NIV)
14 This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,and those tall Sabeans— they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.’ ”
15 Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.
16 All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.
17 But Israel will be saved by the LORDwith an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
18 For this is what the LORD says— he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
19 I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I declare what is right.
20 “Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.
21 Declare what is to be, present it— let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.
22 “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.
24 They will say of me, ‘In the LORD alone are deliverance and strength.’ ” All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.
25 But all the descendants of Israel will find deliverance in the LORDand will make their boast in him.
Question(s) for Reflection
* Q 1: What does the passage teach about God the Father, or God the Son or God the Holy Spirit?
* Q7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
Scripture Union Daily Guide 13th APRIL 2024 OUTLINE
It was certain that God planned to deliver the enemies of Israel into their hands because He is a mysterious God (vs.14-15). This was a time when idolatry and idolaters would be put to shame. Check your life whether you are involved in any form of idolatry. The eternal salvation to Israel was emphasized by Prophet Isaiah. They will never be humiliated or disgraced (vs.16-17). The Lord is a God who saves, and He saves us not for a while, not for brief moments, but forever, “with an everlasting salvation”. Therefore, He invites Israel and all humankind to turn to Him and be saved. He only is God (v.22).
Those who oppose Him will be put to shame (v.24), but Israel will find deliverance in Him (v.25).
The Lord promises all descendants of Israel, all who receive Jesus as the Christ, the Saviour of the world, that we will “find deliverance in the Lord” and that we will be saved “with an everlasting salvation”. What do you think constitutes this deliverance and salvation of which the Lord assures us? Reflect on what it means to be saved as a Christian. In Jesus, we receive eternal life but He also delivers us from the perils and dangers of life in this world.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Lord, grant us grace to rejoice in the assurance of the salvation you offer freely unto all who believe in you.
Prayer for the week
* Pray against all the strategic activities of the LGBTQ+, to pull our children from the faith • Pray for those who have been caught up in this web of evil, that they will be delivered • Pray that the eyes of many will be opened to see the danger in this evil
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Psalms 130:7
“Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.”
One-Year Bible Reading Plan
Daily Bible Reading Plan: Day 104- 1 Samuel 21-24
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN APRIL 13, 2024
PRAYER FOCUS
THE CHURCH
” I wil build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ”
Matthew 16 : 18 b
THANK GOD FOR:
i. Keeping the church afloat in Nigeria.
ii. The light of the gospel is still shining in Nigeria despite the threat of the enemy to extinguish it.
PRAY FOR:
i. The Word of God will have a free course in every city in the nation, including the North.
ii. There will be a turnaround in the lives of Nigerians; loving God and living for Him.
iii. The church will fully mobilize her members into serious evangelism and prayers for the leaders.
PRAY AGAINST:
i. All gates of hell working against the gospel in Nigeria.
