Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 December 2023 – Obeying the Word of God Produces Change

Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 December 2023

Read Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 December 2023, Sunday SU Daily Guide Reading

TOPIC: Obeying the Word of God Produces Change

OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, may the entrance of your word bring light and life to all I will do today.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Jonah 3:1-10

Question(s) for Reflection
• Q 2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?

MESSAGE: Read 3:1-4 and compare the actions of Jonah there to his initial response to the command of God (see Jonah 1:3, also read Matthew 7:21-24). It is not the words we hear, read, or preach that profit us, but the words we obey and act upon. Read vs.5-9 and outline the effect of Jonah`s message on the people of Nineveh. V.5, “The people of Nineveh listened and trusted God. They proclaimed a city wide fast and dressed in burlap to show their repentance. Everyone did it — rich and poor, famous and obscure, leaders and followers” (Message Bible).

Notice the result of such massive penitent response to the message of Jonah (v.10, see also Psalm 51:17). The people turned from their evil lives and God had a change of mind and did not do to them as He planned.

Practice/Word Application
Reflection: God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked but would rather they repent and live (Ezekiel 33:11). The door is open for any penitent person to turn back to God in dust and ashes.

• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?

CLOSING PRAYER
Since God is angry with the wicked everyday (Psalm 7:11) and covering our sins will not allow us to prosper (Proverbs 28:13), let us come in genuine repentance before God and ask for His forgiveness and mercies.

Offer a prayer of faith in line with Exodus 34:6

One Year Bible Reading Plan
1 John 3‐5; Psalms 137, 138.

NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN – Sunday, 17-Dec-2023

PRAYER FOCUS
PERSONAL FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
“As the hart (deer) pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God” Psalm 42:1

THANK GOD FOR:
►Who He is, and for what He does in our lives
►Making us His children, through the Gospel

PRAY FOR:
►The Lord will create a deep thirst for His word and His presence in our hearts.
►We will long for His Word and respond to this longing
►We might more steadily and sustainably be transformed by the Holy Spirit being made comfortable to the image of Christ Jesus; and
►The freshness of God’s presence might perpetually be upon our spirits and by it we affect our world for God continually.

Scripture Union Daily Guide 17 December 2023 Devotional. Scripture Union is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization. It was founded in 1867, and works in partnership with individuals and churches across the world. The organization’s stated aim is to use the Bible to inspire children, young people and adults to know God.

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