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MGD: Life Without Direction

Harvest Chapel International - Kumasi

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  1. Praise the Lord, and a very good morning to you.

  2. Welcome to our Morning Glory devotion, which is powered by

  3. Harvest Chapel International. Today's devotion will be shared by Pasta

  4. and messays a more appear. Let's share a word of prayer. Father,

  5. will thank you this day for your goodness and your

  6. grace do was us. Thank you for the gift of

  7. life you've granted all of us. Thank you for the

  8. privilege to gather around your word. We ask for your

  9. presence even in this moment, as we look to receive

  10. grace and truth from the Word of God. Rich as,

  11. Oh God, and transformers in Jesus my name.

  12. Amen.

  13. Let's take a confession from Joshua chapter one, verse eight.

  14. This book of the Lord shall not depart out of

  15. my mouth, but I shall meditate in mid day and

  16. night that I may observe to do according to all

  17. that is written in it. For then I will make

  18. my way prosperous, and then I will have good success. Amen.

  19. Our devotion for today is titled life without Direction, Life

  20. without Direction, and will take our scripture reading from Proverbs

  21. chapter sixteen, verse nine. Emman's heart devised his way, but

  22. the Lord directs his steps made the Lord bless the

  23. reading of his word.

  24. Life without Direction. In August of last year, my husband

  25. and I went to visit he appearance in the Lord.

  26. On our return trip, we decided to avoid the main

  27. road to escape the heavy traffic caused by an ongoing

  28. road construction. But after what felt like minutes squadally turning

  29. into ours of driving, we realized we were completely lost.

  30. We ended up in a location so remote that even

  31. Google Maps couldn't re rouse us. At that point, regrets

  32. began to set in. Then out of nowhere, a taxi

  33. driver appeared driving toward us. We quickly flagged him down

  34. and pleaded for help to find our way back to

  35. the main road. All he said was follow me. After

  36. driving behind him for close to one he pointed us

  37. toward a rough road ahead that would lead directly to

  38. a nearby roundabout. A return journey that should have taken

  39. one hour ended up taken three. But the turning point

  40. in our journey was not just realizing we were lost.

  41. It was encountering a guide. The taxi driver's simple instruction

  42. follow me shifted everything. We did not need a full

  43. explanation of the road network. We did not need to

  44. understand every turn or junction ahead. We only needed to

  45. trust and follow the one who knew the way. Many

  46. of us are not lost because we lack intelligence or effort,

  47. but because we are trying to navigate life independently without direction.

  48. We consult in emotions and personal logic, yet often neglect

  49. the one who sees the full mouth from beginning to end.

  50. Scripture reminds us in prover Chapter three, verse five to six,

  51. to trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and

  52. lay not onto thine own understanding in all thy ways.

  53. Acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy parts. The promise

  54. is divine guidance and direction. God has not merely points

  55. away from a distance. He actively orders the steps of

  56. those who yield to him. The question therefore is not

  57. whether God is willing to guide, but whether we are

  58. willing to follow. The taxi driver's instruction was simple, but

  59. it required surrender in obedience by letting go of our

  60. own assumptions and aligning ourselves behind his lead. Life without

  61. direction leads to exhaustion, confusion, and sometimes unnecessary delays. But

  62. life under divine guidance leads to clarity, even when the

  63. path is unfair. The road may still be rough, and

  64. the journey may still take time, but there is peace

  65. and knowing you are not getting on your way because,

  66. as we lan that day, doing life without divine guidance

  67. and direction can be dangerous, but the safest place is

  68. staying behind the one who knows the way. Amen, beloved,

  69. we take our memory verse for today. Memory verse is

  70. taken from Palm Staty two, verse eight, and I read

  71. from the King James version. I will instruct THEE and

  72. teach THEE in the way which thou shalt go. I

  73. will guide THEE with my Iye, I take it again.

  74. I will instruct THEE and teach THEE in the way

  75. with thou shall go. I will guide THEE with mine I. Amen.

  76. Let us pray, Father, We thank you for speaking to

  77. us through your word this morning. They ask for grace

  78. not only to be hears of this word, but to

  79. actively engage ourselves in doing your word. We ask that

  80. the truth that we have received the bare fruits in

  81. our lives. We pray and ask that continue God to

  82. guide us and show us the way all through our

  83. sojourning here on the earth. In chesus Monday name. We

  84. have prayed with so many Thanksgiving, Amen, beloved God bless

  85. you for joining today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion.

  86. Join us again tomorrow at the same time for another

  87. edifying episode of the Morning Glory Devotion. Until then, remained

  88. in ghost presence and established shallong