Daily Devotional: Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will bring down on his head my oath that he despised & my covenant that he broke. I will spread my net for him, & he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon & execute judgement upon him there because he was unfaithful to me. All his fleeing troops will fall by the sword, & the survivors will be scattered to the winds. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken. (Ezekiel 17:19-21). What God says, He will do. What He promises, He will fulfil. Prayer: Father, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you accepting my fastings & for answering my prayers. I pray that you remove all forms of unfaithfulness from us, your people. Remove everything in our lives that You did not plant. Help us to worship you in spirit & in truth. Help us to serve you with a whole heart & a willing mind. Holy Spirit, I appeal to you: convict us in regards to sin, righteousness & judgement. Change our lives; change our words; change our attitudes; change our thinking. Let all this be done to the glory of God. I assign angels under our complement to act upon my prayers. In Jesus mighty name we pray, believe, & give you thanks, Amen. Heaven Rules.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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