PERFECT HEART AND WILLING MIND - 2

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

WEDNESDAY, 26TH JANUARY, 2022

A Devotional Guide of ANCHOR OF LIFE & REDEMPTION MINISTRY, Worldwide.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

Topic: PERFECT HEART AND WILLING MIND – Part 2

MEMORIZE: “And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.” 1 Chronicle 28:9. 

SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Chronicles 25:1-2.

EXPOSITION:

Yesterday, we started looking at understanding the place a heart takes in kingdom service. We discussed two points: i. It is a wellspring of life where issues of life come from and ii. It is a centre of devotion. Today we want to consider other remaining points.

c.  It is God's dwelling place  1 Cor. 3:16 “For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” A human being is the temple of God. God does not dwell in an edifice or building constructed by man. 1 Cor. 6:19 “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” Man's body is a temple of God. Man's heart is the holy of holies, where God dwells. He does not dwell in the court of congregation nor does He dwell at the holy place but at the holy of holies. The body is whole temple where the court, holy place and holy of holies reside. Heb. 10:16: “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.” This is the evidence of a new covenant. Heb. 8:8-11 “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.”

d. It is the focus of God's word: “And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.” Ezekiel 33:31; Mark 4:13-20.

Prayer point:

Lord, help me to have an acceptable heart to become your dwelling place in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR - Exodus 35-37.