DCLM Daily Manna 25 May 2025 — The Duty Of Serving God
DCLM Daily Manna 25 May 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — The Duty Of Serving God
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Topic: The Duty Of Serving God (DCLM Daily Manna 25 May 2025)
Text: 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
1Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
4And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
5And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
10Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
Key Verse: “My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense” (2 Chronicles 29:11).
Message
The world may be full of people who have scant ideas about what God expects them to do in this life. But some know their purpose for living; they have been called and handed specific assignments from God, but choose to stand aloof. Some blame other people or circumstances for their failure to fulfil their divine mandate. Yet, some simply wait for someone else to give them a push.
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Right from the onset of his reign in Judah, King Hezekiah wanted to be different from his father Ahaz, under whom he served for 14 years. He saw that the central weak point in his father’s reign was his rejection of the true worship of God, shutting the temple and preventing the people from coming to serve the Lord. Therefore, in his first month on the throne, Hezekiah opened the temple and mobilized the Levites whose duty it was to do service in the house of the Lord. He commanded that they sanctify themselves and the house of the Lord, cleansing all filthiness from the temple.
He reminded them that it was because their fathers did evil in the sight of God and turned their backs to Him that calamities and destruction came on them. Hezekiah then publicly declared his resolve to enter into a covenant with the Lord, so “that his fierce wrath may turn away from them.” He stoutly admonished the Levites whom he described as “my sons”, to remember that God had called them to “…serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.”
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No excuse is acceptable from any believer on why he or she should not serve the Lord. For a believer to become inactive or indifferent in the house of God is a mark of ingratitude for what Christ has done for us. A believer who has been sidelined by sin is expected to repent, reconcile with God, heed the admonitions of the Hezekiahs of our time, and promptly return to the service that the Lord has assigned to him/her.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
To die without fulfilling God’s purpose in one’s life is the ultimate failure.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
1 Samuel 10-11
Deeper Life Daily Manna For Today 2025 was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
