MGD: Pay Attention to Instructions - 3

Hello, precious one. This is another edition of the Morning

Glory Devotion brought to you by the Harvest Chapel International,

the Yamicomacy and Erin on Radio ETI Today. This episode

is facilitated by a pastor and Missus Baffo. God richly

bless you for always making it a date with us. Kindly,

let us share a word of prayer. Further, in the

name of Jesus, we thank you for this morning. We

thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for

this opportunity to learn from you. It's a prayer of

God that you give us an obedient heart that will

receive your word and practice it to the praise and

glory of your name. Jesus name, have we prayed? Amen. Amen,

dear one, let us kindly say a confession together from

Joshua chapter one, verse eight.

This book of the out.

Of my mouth.

But I shall day and night that I to do

according to all that.

But then I will make my way past us, and

then I have good Amen. Today you are considering the topic,

pay attention to instructions per three. Pay attention to instructions PA. Three.

The passage for consideration is Luke chapter five, verses one

to seven. Our kindly read from the new English translation. Now,

Jesus was standing by the lake of Ghana Syrid, and

the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word

of God. He saw two boats by the lake, but

the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing

their nets. He got into one of the boats, which

was Semon's, and asked him to put out a little

away from the shore. Then Jesus sat and thought the

crowd from the boats. When he had finished speaking, he

said to Simon, put out into the deep water and

lower your nets for a catch. Simon answered, Master, we

worked hard all night and caught nothing, but as your word,

I will lower the nets. When they had done this,

they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.

So they motioned to their partners in the other boat

to come and help them, and they came and filled

both boats, so that they were about to sing, Beloved.

This is the reading of the word of the Lord.

Thans be used to God.

Amen, pay attention to instructions past three. Over the two

previous episodes, we realized that the breakthroughs with there in

life don't usually arrive fully formed. God rarely drops a

miracle out of the sky without requiring a human hand

to move. Rather, he wraps at breakthroughs inside his instructions.

We conclude that it's not always easy to follow those

instructions because they don't always make sense to our natural

way of thinking. Some of the instructions we receive from

God may feel utterly confusion to the human mind because

we save a God whose thoughts are vastly higher than ours,

which means his instructions will often clash with our logic.

But today we face an even tougher barrier.

What happens when God's instructions challenges your personal expertise, your pride,

your preference, or your share exhaustion, It is easy to

disregard God when we think we know better. We often

allow our past experiences, a professional training, or our comfort

zones to dictate how and when we obey. Think about

Simon Peter. He was not an amateur. He was a

seasoned professional fisherman who knew the Sea of Galilee.

Intimately.

He knew that commercial fishing was done at night, when

the fish came to the surface to feed. Yet after

throwing his nerves for hours in the dark, he caught

absolutely nothing. Imagine the scene at daybreak. Peter and his

partners were on the shore, completely exult cleaning the ways

out of their empty nets. Their bags were aching, their

pockets were empty, and they were dreading the walk home

to face their families. It is precisely in this moment

of defeat that Jesus steps into the boat and says,

lunch out into the deep and let down your nets

for a drought. To a professional finisherman, this command was insulting.

Jesus was a carpenter preaching on the shore during the

west fishing hour of the day. Peter's initial response betrayed

his frustration. He said, Master, we have told all the

night and have taken nothing.

He was leaning on his experience.

But then faith to over and he appended a fate

filled utterance. Nevertheless, at die world, I well let down

the net. When he chose God's word over his own expertise,

the sea exploded with life. His obedience yielded and overwhelming

abundance of fishes, until the nets began to break and

their boats began to sink under the weight of the blessing.

Centuries before Peter, a Syrian army general named Neyman nearly

missed his miracle for the exact same reason. He thought

his state was an experience gave him a better perspective.

Covered in leprosy, he stood outside the prophet elicious house,

expecting a grand, dramatic display. Instead, a servant came out

with a simple instruction, go and wash seven times in

the Jordan, and your skin will be restored and you

will be healed, as in Second King, chapter five, the

first ten Nayan raged, he was furious that the prophet

did not even come out to wave his hand. He said, look,

I thought for sure he would come out, stand there,

invoke the name of the Lord, his God, wave his

hand over the area, and kill the skin disease. He

complained that the clean rivers of the Mascos were far

better than the muddy waters of Israel.

His pride almost kept him in his disease.

It was only when he humbled himself, cast aside his preferences,

and dipped into the Jordan that his flesh was restored

like that of a little child. Pleasures one, Where are

you letting your own expertise, pride, or preferences block your breakthrough?

Are you telling God how to fix your career instead

of following his promptings. Are you refusing to forgive a spouse,

a friend, or a colleague because your feelings tell you.

That you are right and they are wrong.

Do not let what you know luck you out of

what God wants to do with your life. Cast aside

your pride, your preferences, put away your exhaustion, and say, Lord, nevertheless,

at your word, I will try again. God bless you

belove it. Please let's affair our memory. Verse from Luke

Cheptaen number five, the verse five Simon answer master, we

worked hard all night and caught nothing, But at your word,

I will lower the nets. Simon answer master, We worked

hard all night and caught nothing.

But at your word, I.

Will lower the nets. We'll have a less share a

word of prayer. Father, We are grateful for speaking to

us this morning. We thank you for exposing us to

your ways and your will. We genuinely confess that there

are times we think we know better than you do.

There are times that we let our pride and our

preferences and our opinions take leadership of our lives beyond

your will and ways.

But we prayed at this.

Time around Lord will help us to humble ourselves under

our instructions, even if we are exhausted, even if we

feel we have much experienced. Lord, help us to put

all aside, that we may be obedient to your will.

We may be obedient to your instructions and well see

your mighty hand in our lives.

Let your name.

Alone be praised now and forever In Jesus Mighty name,

we have prayed, Amen and Amen believed. God richly bless

you for tuning in to listen to today's morning Globy devotion.

We know it has been a blessing to you. Keep

pondering over these things.

And looking out for which areas of your life you

need to improve your commitment to the instructions of God

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