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MGD: Our Guide in the Wilderness

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Pleas the Lord, oh my soul and all that is

  2. within me, plus his holy name, Sharon Beloved. My name

  3. is Amanda Baidu from Harvest Chapelain International Dayamiko Marsi, and

  4. I'll be facilitating today's morning glory devotion. Kindly, let us

  5. pray our Heavenly Father. We thank you so much for today.

  6. Thank you for such a beautiful mourning and the opportunity

  7. to study your word. We ask that you open the

  8. eyes of our understanding and help us to imbbe this

  9. word and grant us the grace to apply its truths

  10. to our lives. In Jesus, Amen be love at Please

  11. let's take our confession from the Book of Joshua, chapter one,

  12. verse eight. This book of the Law shall not depart

  13. out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in it

  14. day and night, that I may observe to do according

  15. to all that is written in it. For then I

  16. will make my way prosperous, and then I will have

  17. good success, Amen Beloved. Our topic for today is titled

  18. our Guide in the Wilderness, Our Guide in the Wilderness,

  19. and our scripture reading is taken from Deturnomy, chapter eight,

  20. verse twelve to seventeen. When you have eaten in our

  21. phone and have built beautiful houses and dwelling them, And

  22. when your heads and your flocks multiply, and your silver

  23. and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have

  24. is multiplied, when your heart is lifted up, and you

  25. forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of

  26. the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who

  27. led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which

  28. were fiery serpents and scorpions, and festy land where there

  29. was no water, who brought water for you out of

  30. the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with

  31. manner which your fathers did not know, that He might

  32. humble you, and that he might test you to do

  33. you good In the end, then you say in your heart,

  34. my power and the might of my hand have gained

  35. me this wealth. Amen, our guide in the wilderness, beloved.

  36. What a blessing we have in Jesus. What a privilege

  37. it is to walk through the maze of life with

  38. God on our side guiding us every step of the way.

  39. The scripture highlights the genie of the Israelies. Through the wilderness,

  40. they encountered a lot of dangers fiery serpents, scorpions, luck,

  41. and fear. It is interesting that after God delivered them

  42. from slavery and bondage in the hands of the Egyptians,

  43. instead of taking them immediately to the Promised Land, he

  44. led them through a wilderness. During this period, he taught

  45. them about himself and also about the condition of their hearts.

  46. He revealed their addiction to idolatry, disobedience, doubts, sins, pride,

  47. and also taught them that He is a provider, a protector,

  48. a forgiver, a teacher, and a guide. Brethren. Life is

  49. sometimes like a wilderness, where there are many dangers, scarcity, anxieties, luck, enemies,

  50. and all manner of troubles. But just like the Israelites,

  51. even after God has delivered us from the Kingdom of darkness,

  52. we can still go through different wildernesses of our own.

  53. But we can take comforts from the facts that just

  54. like He didn't abandon them, He will not leave us alone, Beloved.

  55. No matter how hard our wilderness seasons are, God still

  56. has a purpose for us. He often uses those seasons

  57. to teach us how to depend on Him and how

  58. to be separated and consecrated onto Him. So let us

  59. not be discouraged. We have the Lord on our side,

  60. and he will be our guide. He wants to train

  61. us to build a relationship with him where we are

  62. totally dependent on him, more than what we can get

  63. from his hand. He yeens for us to seek his face.

  64. We must be willing to die to the self in

  65. whatever wilderness we find ourselves in, and tend to depend

  66. on him true, letting go of all the idols in

  67. our hearts, like the pride of life, the last of

  68. the flesh, and the last of the eye, exchanging our

  69. old selves for our true identity in Christ, Jesus be

  70. love it. The Lord will be our guide, even in

  71. the wilderness, protecting, transforming, and providing for us, until we

  72. become like Him in our hearts and in our lives.

  73. Shaloon our memory. Ve's is taken from Isaac chapter fifty eight,

  74. verse eleven. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy

  75. your soul in drought and strengthen your bones. You shall

  76. be like a watered garden, and like a spring of

  77. water whose waters do not fail. Amen. Please, let's pray, Papa.

  78. We thank you for this reminder that in whatever season

  79. we are, you are still our guide, and you will

  80. help us to navigate every tough season in life. We

  81. pray a record that you teach us to truly abandon

  82. ourselves to you, that we may be transformed daily to

  83. become like Christ in Jesus' name. Prayer with thanksgiving, Amen,

  84. Thank you so much, beloved for tuning into today's morning

  85. glory devotion. Kindly stay tuned for more spirit filled content

  86. and have a blessed day. Shalon