Daily Manna is the same with Daily Devotions. They are Spiritual food every believer must be taken daily for him/her to be able to live in this world in the way of the Lord.
Daily Manna are to be taken early in the morning before starting any activity of the day. The food include prayer and Scriptural reading which goes hand in hand. As you cannot do without physical food, so also you cannot do without the present of God through His Word. They are compass for direction, protector, guidance and everything.
So reading daily manna will help us to invite the Holy Spirit and be by our side. We are encouraged not to make the Holy Spirit dormant in us. Let it be active in us by our action.
WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
TEXT:
Jeremiah 26:1-24
1:
Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came
from the Lord:
2:
“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s house and
speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house
of the Lord. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word.
3:
Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will
relent and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil
they have done.
4:
Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen to me and follow
my law, which I have set before you,
5:
and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have
sent to you again and again (though you have not listened),
6:
then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the
nations of the earth.’”
7:
The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words
in the house of the Lord.
8:
But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had
commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him
and said, “You must die!
9:
Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and
this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around
Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10:
When the officials of Judah heard about these things, they went up from the
royal palace to the house of the Lord and took their places at the entrance of
the New Gate of the Lord’s house.
11:
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people,
“This man should be sentenced to death because he has prophesied against this
city. You have heard it with your own ears!”
12:
Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people: “The Lord sent me
to prophesy against this house and this city all the things you have heard.
13:
Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the Lord your God. Then the Lord
will relent and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you.
14:
As for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever you think is good and right.
15:
Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of
innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for
in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”
16:
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets,
“This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of
the Lord our God.”
17:
Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly
of people,
18:
“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told
all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: “‘Zion will be
plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a
mound overgrown with thickets.’
19:
“Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not
Hezekiah fear the Lord and seek his favor? And did not the Lord relent, so that
he did not bring the disaster he pronounced against them? We are about to bring
a terrible disaster on ourselves!”
20:
(Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim was another man who prophesied
in the name of the Lord; he prophesied the same things against this city and
this land as Jeremiah did.
21:
When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and officials heard his words, the
king was determined to put him to death. But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear
to Egypt.
22:
King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Akbor to Egypt, along with some
other men.
23:
They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him
struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the
common people.)
24:
Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed
over to the people to be put to death.
(New
International Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC:
BEWARE OF KILLER PRIESTS AND PROPHETS
Why did fellow priests
and prophets want to kill Jeremiah? His offence was that he spoke the message
of the Lord without diluting it and without fear or favor.
Some of the people who
occupy space in the church today and parade themselves as men and women of God
are usurpers, dupers and killers. They would not only want to kill the
spiritual lives of those seeking God, they can kill just to get what they want.
Don't let such people
discourage you from declaring the message of God. The Lord is always there to
raise help for you. He did not forget Jeremiah, neither would He forget you.
Killer priests and
prophets abound in the Church today, watch out!
QUESTION:
Are you a killer priest or prophet in the Church today?
PRAYER:
Oh Lord Jesus, please expose and deal with false prophets and priests in our
midst. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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