August 2, 2020 CAC Living Water Devotional :- PIRITUAL LAWS (1)
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CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH
THE LIVING WATER {July ~ Dec., 2020}
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Sunday, August 2, 2020
TOPIC: SPIRITUAL LAWS (1)
Read Genesis 49:1-12
[1]And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.[2]Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.[3]Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
[4]Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.[5]Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.[6]O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.[7]Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.[8]Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.[9]Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?[10]The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.[11]Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:[12]His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
MEMORISE: You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways (Job 22:28)
EXPOSITION
Laws are made to install and instill order and operational guide to a person or group of people on how they have to live within a given sphere. A law could be verbal or written, what matters is the power that backs and enforces it. Every aspect of our lives is being controlled by one form of laws, or the other, both physically and spiritually.
A young man was sick and everybody wished him quick recovery and prayer was organised for him, but God said, He will surely die. Few days later, he died. His pastor became worried and went to enquire before God what was the matter. God later revealed to him through the man’s mum that he had said right from childhood that he will die before his fortieth birthday. Actually, he did not see his fortieth birthday. The young man has made spiritual irreversible law on his life and so it happened.
Jacob said; Reuben ‘shall not excell’ even though Reuben was the first son and was entitled to a double portion of his father’s wealth. By just a sentence, “Spiritual law” Reuben’s life was stagnated. David fasted for days over the result of his illicit affair with Bathsheba. The boy eventually died and David had no one to blame for it (2 Sam. 12:18-23).
Be careful the words you speak to your life, children and others, words are spiritual laws set in motion that can promote or destroy one’s life. What spiritual laws have you made on your life that set your life in the wrong direction? Cry out to God for divine intervention and correction. Think and speak carefully.
PRAYER POINTS
1. My Father, every spiritual law I have made against myself, have mercy on me.
2. My Father, I reject every negative spiritual law made by others, especially those who brought me forth, against my life.
3. Lord, we break every spiritual law that is destroying our country.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 30 – 31; 2 Peter 2
Author: C.A.C WORLDWIDE
Remain blessed!