Seeds of the Kingdom 26 August 2022 Daily Devotional || By Ellel Ministries International
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New Season of Significant Change Coming
by Jill Southern
Joshua told the people “Consecrate the people for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you”. Joshua 3:5, NIV
Seeds of the Kingdom 26 August 2022 Daily Devotional MESSAGE
I believe that, as Christians, we are all about to walk into a new season of significant change.
These are serious and urgent days, where can no longer go around in spiritual neutral gear. God is radically changing the way that we depend on Him, but we will only depend on Him fully when we come to an end of ourselves.
He is teaching me how to trust Him. He wants me to be convinced in the deepest place that I can trust Him with my future. His radical love for me won’t let any person or anything on earth totally meet my needs but Him. God wants to know that He can trust me. ‘Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful’ (1 Corinthians 4:2). My faithfulness to God matters. I must learn to surrender my expectations that He will perform in a certain way or answer my prayers in a certain way.
The new requirement of God turns out to be the same as the old one. It is to come and die to myself. He is asking me to lead from a position of weakness not strength. The best I can do will never be enough, and God loves me too much to allow me to succeed in my own strength. God has been merciful up to now, but He will no longer cover over any presumption. I must not presume to do things the same old way. God is doing a new thing, which will lead to more freedom and yet greater accountability to Him. He has new directions for me and deeper levels of intimacy with Him. He wants new wine skins for an outpouring of His Spirit in this new season.
Seducing voices may well suggest we take the easy road, take matters into our own hands by our own power, or follow the dramatic and sensational. But we must give no ground to deception or denial of reality. This will require us to have finely tuned antennae which listen for God’s voice alone. For example, we may expect Jesus to come in through the front door, but He comes in through the back. We can feel exposed and vulnerable. We really need His help. As God moves in power among His people, let us be more concerned than ever that we do not miss out on what He is doing today.
Seeds of the Kingdom 26 August 2022 PRAYER
Father, I come in Jesus’ name and thank You so much for Your radical love. I am aware that You are taking us into a new season and doing a new thing among Your people. I do not want to miss out on anything that You are doing. Teach me to listen for Your voice and to be watchful. Speak to me from Your word and fill me afresh with Your Spirit as I choose to follow You obediently today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Seeds of the Kingdom 26 August 2022 Daily Devotional written by Jill Southern. She was the founder/Director of Ellel Pierrepont from 1998 until 2016 when she stood down. She is now a member of the Ellel Elders Fellowship and continues to teach in the ministry, especially on the NETS school at Pierrepont. Jill has a passion to proclaim Kingdom truth and to see Jesus transform lives.
