STRONG BUT INDISCIPLINE - Part 4

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

WEDNESDAY, 27TH APRIL, 2022

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

TOPIC: STRONG BUT INDISCIPLINED - Part 4

DISOBEDIENCE OF SAUL

MEMORIZE: “And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.” 1 Samuel 15:22.

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Samuel 15:1-9

“1 ¶ Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. 6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.”

EXPOSITION:

The word of God came to Saul to make him king over Israel when he did never think of it. The word said, “When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?” 1 Samuel 15:17. That he became the first king of Israel was his strength. He led the army of God into battle and won on several occasions. But his area of indiscipline was his act of disobedience. God sent him to kill all his enemies – “Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” 1 Samuel 15:2,3. But when he got there, he spared their king and captured him alive (against the word of God), possibly to prove his strength and ability – v. 8. The word of God equals disobedience to rebellion and witchcraft - 1 Samuel 15:23. King Saul’s disobedience to God’s message led to his rejection.

The grace (privileges) you are enjoying were all given by God. It could have been given to someone else but He chose you. As an anointed man/woman of God, it is by God’s grace. Why will He send you an errand, and you disobey Him. Concerning king Saul’s disobedience, God was displeased “Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying, It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.” 1 Samuel 15:10-11.

Strong but indiscipline in the area of disobedience always has disastrous end. But the arms of the Lord are opened to welcome anyone who will genuinely repent and be ready and willing to obey Him in whatever He will want him/her to do – It is written, “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:” Isaiah 1:16-18. Obedience brings blessings. By faith and Obedience of Abraham, God blessed him and made him inherit the promises He had for him – “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Hebrews 11:8-10.

PRAYER POINT:

i. Lord, help me to obey you in all you want from me henceforth in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Ezra 7-10

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