WHEN GOD’S GRACE IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE of WEDNESDAY, 1ST JUNE, 2022

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

Topic: WHEN GOD’S GRACE IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED

MEMORIZE: “And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.” Judges 16:20-21.

SCRIPTURE READING: Numbers 6:5-9.

“All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD. And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.”

EXPOSITION: 

Consecration brings us into demonstration of God’s power beyond human comprehension. It is the link between divine and human. It is the power that transforms the mortal to operate like Immortal. It makes a man to be accepted, useful and honored in the kingdom service. Samson carried this consecration and he became an unusual man. No enemy can withstand him because he became the carrier of God’s power, presence and authority. As long as you carry this consecration, you become the favourite of the Father (God) and eventually becomes the sought-after among men. It is sometimes referred to as “anointing”.

But Samson, at a time, began to mess up this consecration upon his life and was still enjoy doing unusual exploits for God in defending the people of God. At this time, I want to call the attention of the men/women of God (clergy/workers) to be very careful because the fact that God is still honoring Himself in your life may not necessarily mean your life is correct before Him or that you are pleasing Him. He may chose to do those wonders in order just to honor His word. Watch your inner life, your personal relationship with God.

Samson broke all the rules guiding his being a Nazarite and was still performing wonders until the last was violated – his locks of hair were shaven. Then he became ordinary immediately and an object of amusement. Whenever the grace of God taken for granted, it usually has deadly and regretful end. Don’t be a victim. Samson could not come out of its consequence alive. He was ridiculed and made jest of, because he lost his consecration. Remember you are seal with Holy Spirit of promise. Eph 1:13 “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,”. Therefore, do not grieve Him, “And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Eph 4:30.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, help me not take your grace upon my for granted as to lose my consecration in you in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – Psalm 19-22

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