TUESDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 2024.
Author:
PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
TOPIC: SEARCH ME, O GOD, AND
TRY ME
MEMORIZE: “Be thou diligent
to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds” Proverbs
27:23
SCRIPTURE READING: Proverbs
27:23-24
“Be thou diligent to
know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not
for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?”
EXPOSITION:
Every wise merchant will
occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine
what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous
or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven, will cry, “Search
me, O God, and try me” ; and he will frequently set apart special seasons for
self-examination, to discover whether things are right between God and his
soul. The God whom we worship is a great heart-searcher; and of old his
servants knew him as “the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins
of the children of men” Jeremiah 17:10; 20:12.
Let me stir you up in his name
to make diligent search and solemn trial of your state, lest you come short of
the promised rest. That which every wise man does, that which God himself does
with us all, I exhort you to do with yourself this evening. Let the oldest
saint look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover
black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for
the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy. Every now
and then a cedar falls into our midst. The enemy still continues to sow tares
among the wheat. It is not my aim to introduce doubts and fears into your mind;
nay, verily, but I shall hope the rather that the rough wind of
self-examination may help to drive them away. It is not security, but carnal
security, which we would kill; not confidence, but fleshly confidence, which we
would overthrow; not peace, but false peace, which we would destroy. By the
precious blood of Christ, which was not shed to make you a hypocrite, but that
sincere souls might show forth his praise, I beseech you, search and look, lest
at the last it be said of you, “Mene, Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting”
PRAYER POINT: Lord,
guide me all through my life into your purpose in Jesus name.
ii. Lord, I
beseech you, search and look at me, lest at the last it be said of me, “Mene,
Mene, Tekel: thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting”
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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily
devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer,
Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s
word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through
an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word.
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