Scripture Union Daily Guide 21st February 2025 (Friday) Devotional Message
Scripture Union Daily Guide (February 21, 2025) TOPIC: The Privilege of Priesthood
OPENING PRAYER: Dear Lord, make me more like you through the power of your word as I meditate on it.
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Numbers 18:1-32
QUESTIONS 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 (February 21, 2025) MESSAGE
The Priesthood is a gift and a privilege. It is also a serious responsibility with guidelines and principles, which cannot be carried out casually (Numbers 18:2-7). Neither is it a right to be demanded but a gift to be utilized profitably with gratitude. “To bear iniquity in connection with the sanctuary” (Numbers 18:1) means the priests are to take all the risks and penalties involved in approaching the sanctuary (read Numbers 18:1 from NIV). We who are believers are God’s priests today. See 1 Peter 2:9 and note the seriousness, privilege, and principles attached to our priesthood.
Read Numbers 18: 8-15a carefully and notice the provisions that the Lord made for His servants. In the same way, God is the one who provides for all His children today. All of us who belong to the royal Priesthood can always look up to Him for His provision (Philippians 4:19). However, we all have the responsibility to bring our tithes and offerings to the Lord so He can, through them, supply the needs of our fulltime pastors and Christian workers (our Aarons and Levites).
Apart from the provision of resources, notice the primary portion of the priests of God (Numbers 18:20)? God never owes any of His dedicated workers in His vineyard.
* Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
CLOSING PRAYER: Father, thank you for the privilege of being your priest and the assurance of your provision for my needs.
One Bible Reading Guide:
Leviticus 6-7, John 3.
One Bible Reading Guide, Hard Copy Version:
Leviticus 24-25
National Prayer Bulletin – Friday Feb 21, 2025
PRAYER FOCUS
ADVISORY COMMITTEES & BOARDS MEETINGS OF BOARDS AND MEMBERS
Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed. Prov.16:3
THANK GOD FOR:
* His grace and strength for them in carrying out their responsibilities.
PRAY FOR:
* The direction of the Holy Spirit in all their deliberations, wisdom and insight to make right decisions that will move the Union forward to fulfill God’s purposes • Renewed strength, commitment and divine insight to build the various departments to achieve their objectives. • Traveling mercies for the participants of the Advisory Committees and Boards
PRAY AGAINST:
* Disunity and lack of commitment. Advisory Committees & Boards Meetings of Departments begins today : 21 -23 February
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. (Scripture Union Daily Guide 20th February 2025)