DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018 PREPARE FOR THE LORD’S COMING TEXT: LEVITICUS 9:1-14 Key Verse:

DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018

PREPARE FOR THE LORD’S COMING

TEXT: LEVITICUS 9:1-14

Key Verse: "Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you” (Leviticus 9:4)_

Nothing worthwhile is ever gained without a painstaking preparation, especially if we are expecting an august visitor. We go to great lengths to ensure that all arrangements are perfected to the minutest detail. Our environment is sparkling clean, our houses are given a facelift; we spare no expense in ensuring that in appearance, we present ourselves appropriately and respectably.

This underlines the preparation that Moses instructed Aaron and his sons to make in expectation of the visitation of the almighty God. They were to make a sin offering with a calf, and a burnt offering with a ram, to the Lord. Both animals were to be without blemish. The offerings were intended to ensure that they were spiritually prepared, their sins dealth with, their lives cleansed of all impurities, and their attention focused on the Lord who was about to visit them in the camp. Aaron and his sons dutifully and obediently followed the instruction God handed to them through Moses. The sacrifices He prescribed would take some carefulness to carry out in detail. But they did all these as He instructed and in the manner and attitude He wanted it done.

If the Israelites went to such lengths to prepare for the visitation of God, how we need to get ready for the second coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ at all times. The greatest preparation we can make is to pray for our sins to be forgiven and live a consistent righteous and holy lifestyle till the end.

There is no partiality within God. It is only those who are saved and remain pure till death or the coming of the Lord at the rapture that will live with Him in heaven throughout eternity.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Prepare to meet thy God”!
COVER to COVER: EXODUS 39-40.

PONDER:
Coded in the text is the secret of heavenly visitation for a person, family or church. v6. The types echo the reality.
1. Sin offering: Every smell and shadow of sin must be dealt with v3,7
2. Burnt offering: There must be complete consecration and surrender to the word of God, both written and spoken. Full fire and passion for the Holy. v2,3,7,11-14
3. Peace offering: Every thing displeasing to God must be searched out and removed. v4
4. Meat or food offering: There must be true and sincere unity, fellowship with the Spirit and one another without hypocrisy v4, Rev. 3:20.
5. Are you really ready for heavenly visitation in your life, family and church?

HYMN: Christ Returneth

1. It may be at morn, when the day is awaking,
When sunlight through darkness and shadow is breaking,
That Jesus will come in the fullness of glory,
To receive from the world His own.

Refrain:
O Lord Jesus, how long, how long
Ere we shout the glad song,
Christ returneth!
Hallelujah! hallelujah!
Amen. Hallelujah! Amen.

2 It may be at midday, it may be at twilight,
It may be, perchance, that the blackness of midnight
Will burst into light in the blaze of His glory,
When Jesus receives His own. (Refrain)

3 While its hosts cry Hosanna, from heaven descending,
With glorified saints and the angels attending,
With grace on His brow, like a halo of glory,
Will Jesus receive His own. (Refrain)

4 O joy! O delight! should we go without dying,
No sickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying.
Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into glory,
When Jesus receives His own. (Refrain)

PRAYER POINT:
1. Ask God to search out and reveal anything that may be hindering His special visitation in your life and church.
2. Plead with God to visit you in a new and unforgettable encounter.
3. Ask God to deal with everything opposed to true love and fellowship in your church. Promise to be an example of true lover.
4. Ask for a divine and spectacular visitation in the church.