DCLM programmes and events for the year 2023.Hello friend, with great delight and exceeding joy, do I welcome you to Deeper Life Bible Church, Washington DC.It is rooted in the Word of God and designed to help you experience a deeper walk with God. Kumuyi, who is the founder of the Deeper Christian Life Bible Ministry ( DCLM). Remove the disguise of religion and be obedient.ĭaily Mannais the daily devotional written by Pastor W.F. Remember, God will not judge on the basis of the standard you set for yourself but on His word and your obedience. Saul lost it when he disobeyed God and the Scriptures say disobedience is like the sin of witchcraft and no disobedient or self-righteous person will enter heaven. Today, if all you boast of is observance of religious principles and rites, you may be disappointed on the final day. Yet, they are known as ‘Christians’ in the fold. In times of adversity, such people seek help secretly, like Saul, from sorcerers. They do not see anything wrong with partial or lack of obedience. They lack close relationship with Christ and only identify with Him by religious observances. How many people today go about wearing a toga of Christianity without knowing God! There are many disguised people in the church today, who do not hear from God like Saul. King Saul had to disguise himself as an ordinary man. He needed late Samuel’s advice on his next move.
He became afraid and his heart trembled as he saw the host of the Philistines gathered to war with Israel. God had refused to answer Saul’s enquiry either by dreams, Urim or the prophets. In our text, we read of Saul’s visit to the woman with familiar spirit at Endor. He did not see anything wrong in what he did he claimed self-righteousness. He had been commanded to utterly destroy every living creature in the city but he did his own will and not God’s. Saul, the first king of Israel claimed innocence when he brought alive Agag, king of Amorites and some other animals for sacrifice. Even when there are obvious lapses, they rationalise such faults but God sticks to His standard. Often times, many people find it easy to defend themselves. Read yesterday’s Message by Pastor Kumuyi DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY Key Verse: “And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.” – (1 Samuel 28:8) And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.ġ5 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. 8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.ĩ And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?ġ0 And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.ġ1 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.ġ2 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.ġ3 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.ġ4 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up and he is covered with a mantle.
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