Scripture Union Daily Guide 24th May 2023
Read Scripture Union Daily Guide 24 May 2023, Wednesday SU Daily Guide Reading
TOPIC: Rescued from the Tyranny of the Law
OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, I pray that you order my steps today through your word as I meditate on it.
SCRIPTURE: Romans 7:1 – 13
Question(s) for Reflection
• Q 7: What truth is God revealing to me in this passage?
• Q 8: Is there any other Biblical passage that can help me understand this passage better?
MESSAGE: It is easier for many people to follow dos and don’ts of the law than to understand the freedom that we have in Christ. Paul used the example of marriage to explain the reason believers are no longer under the law. A woman is tied to her husband by the law of marriage only when they are both alive. If the husband dies, she is immediately free. When we accept Christ as Lord and Saviour, we die to the law and get joined to Christ in a new life. Like a woman in a new state because the husband is dead, so are we also in a new state because we now belong to Christ.
Notice the fruits we bore while under the lordship of our old husband (sin) and those that should result from being under the lordship of Christ, the One who died to release us from sin (vs.4-6). Compare Galatians 5:16-26 where Paul expounds on the old and new life: life in the flesh (in the natural, the legal, under the law and sin) and life under the control of the Holy Spirit.
Going to church, paying tithes, etc., do not make us better Christians if we do not allow the Holy Spirit to work in our hearts in a way that takes away the need to rely on the law.
Practice/Word Application
Thought: Meditate on Ephesians 2:8-10.
• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Lord Jesus, help me to daily bear fruit of righteousness.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Psalms 107:6
One Year Bible Reading Plan
2 Samuel 15, 16, Matthew 20.
NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN – Wed, 24-May-2023
PRAYER FOCUS
BEARING FRUIT
THANK GOD FOR:
► The light of God that keeps shining in the dark even in this end time.
► The spirit of God that abides in us and has marked us out as His light.
PRAY FOR:
► Grace to keep hearing and keeping God’s word daily in all we do.
► Daily sanctification of the spirit in SU as we obediently reach out in evangelism to the lost children, youths and families of the world.
► Deliberate living by faith as we allow the fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness to be seen in us in SU.
PRAY AGAINST:
► Submitting to the yoke of slavery and sin thereby not bearing fruit for our God.
► Setting our minds on the flesh and earthly things thereby failings to witness and live for our God.
Scripture Union Daily Guide 24 May 2023. 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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