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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Increase comes from God

[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: You have not passed through this way before

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Oke Chinye
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Read: Joshua 3: 1-17

Meditation verse:

“…that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not  passed this way before” (Joshua 3:4b).

The children of Israel were about to cross over the Jordan to the  promised land after forty tears of wandering in the wilderness. The  officers went through the camp and instructed the people to move  only when they see the ark of the covenant of the Lord their God, with  the priests and Levites bearing it. They were to set out from their  places only after they had seen the ark, that they may know the way  by which they should go for they had not passed that way before.  

It’s the beginning of the year today: the first day of a new year. What  lies ahead in the year is unknown to us as we have not passed through  this year before. The ark of the covenant was a symbol of God’s  presence: Yahweh’s presence: His strength and almightiness. Today,  we do not have the ark with us or the Levites who bear it. We carry  the presence of God inside us in the person of The Holy Spirit. We are  bearers of God’s Almighty presence. 

Do not move ahead in this new year before you see the ark. Begin the  year by setting yourself apart to wait on God and seek guidance from  the Holy Spirit who is inside you. When you do this, “your ears shall  hear a word behind you saying, ‘this is the way, walk in it’. (Isaiah  30:21a).  

“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘give me a light that I might  tread safely into the unknown’. And he replied: ‘go out into the darkness and put  thine hand into the hand of God. That shall be better than light and safer than a  known way. So, I went forth and finding the hand of God, trod gladly into the night”. -ML HASKINS  

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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