LIVING WATER CAC 14 AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
LIVING WATER CAC AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH
Friday , 14 August 2020
TOPIC: IT MAY BE THE BAIT
READ: Judges 16:1-21
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MEMORISE: And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, wherein your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to subdue you. (Judges 16:6)
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LIVING WATER CAC 14 AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
EXPOSITION:
Bait is any substance, especially food used in catching fish, or other animals by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap or net. It is an enticements or temptation to destroy. It is usually appealing because it contains some irresistible substance. It’s giver does not give it for the fun of it; it is to lure, to deceive, and to destroy. Watch it well. Lizards have a way of setting traps for their unsuspecting preys. This is World Lizard Day.
CAC LIVING WATER 14 AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
One of the potent instrument Satan uses today to get at Christians is his sinful allurements—bait. They include baits of lucrative jobs, positions, fame, etc. that allow one not to have ample time for his family and spiritual life. He makes Christians see it as something normal and harmless. When the Philistines wanted to catch the powerful Samson, Deliah was the bait. He accepted the poisonous ravaging beauty of the godless harlot and his glorious destiny was truncated and life terminated (Prov. 23:27-25). Love for gift was the bait used to truncate the glorious future of the ‘to be prophet’ Gahazi.
Paul said in 2 Tim. 4:10 that Damas deserted him and the gospel which he once embraced for the bait of the pleasure of this present age — modernisation, materialism, etc. He loved worldly values and pleasures. The same is the condition of many Christians, today. The beauty of the present age — fashion, music, riches, etc. is baits the devil is using to sweep many away from their Lord. Our love for the world should be Christ’s type of love for it.
CAC LIVING WATER 14 AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Satan once presented the bait of food, power, and fame to Christ our Lord, but Christ was able to recognize and reject him by the Word that richly dwelled in Him (cf. Col. 3:16). The young slave boy and servant of Potiphar, Joseph, was at a time presented with the bait of fornication by her Master’s wife. His destiny would have been shattered, if he had fallen for it. His knowledge of the Lord God of Israel enable him reject the ungodly advance of her madam.
A singer sang, “Whatever I love will not harm me, whatever will harm me I will not love, for not all that glitters is gold.” The killing and destructive power of bait is not physical. It may be difficult to recognise. Only the Spirit-filled Christians would recognize it — those that have knowledge of the Word.
LIVING WATER CAC 14 AUGUST 2020 DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
PRAYER POINTS:
1. I refuse to fall into the enemy’s trap, no matter how subtle they are, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every effort of the devil to derail me shall fail, in Jesus name.
3. Lord, destroy all the baits set against Church leaders to make them lose focus and plunge the Church against God’s purpose.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Psalms 30-33; Revelation 6
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The sweetest and biggest thing to ever happen to you is to make a decision to be saved through JESUS CHRIST. If you have not made that decision. Please make that decision now and say ” Lord Jesus forgive me for my sins and have mercy on me, thank you for dying for me on the cross, take me as your son / daughter and be my father. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME, in JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN. God bless you.
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