Speaker 1: By then on erring spirit lead. We shall not in
Speaker 1: the desert stray. We shall not full direction need nor
Speaker 1: miss our providential way. Dearly beloved, your warmly welcome to
Speaker 1: today's episode of the Morning Glory Devotion, brought to you
Speaker 1: by the Harvest Chapel Commercy and airin on Radio ACI today.
Speaker 1: Your facilitators for today are Pastor and Missus Baffle kindly
Speaker 1: letters share a word of prayer. Am Mighty Father, we
Speaker 1: thank you for this opportunity to listen to your words.
Speaker 1: We count it all joy to share fellowship with you.
Speaker 1: Please let wisdom be imparted to us to guide us
Speaker 1: in our every decision in Jesus' name. Amen, Amen beloved,
Speaker 1: let us kindly see our confession together from Joshua Chapter one,
Speaker 1: Verse aid, this book of the Law shall not depart
Speaker 1: out of one my mouth. But I shall meditate in
Speaker 1: it day and night, that I may observe to do
Speaker 1: according to all that is ratten in it. For then
Speaker 1: I'll make my way cross fer us, and then I
Speaker 1: would have good Amen. Yeah. One. The topic for today's
Speaker 1: discussion is don't be trapped. Don't be trapped, and our
Speaker 1: scripture reading is taken from Look chapter fifteen, verses eleven
Speaker 1: to nineteen. I read it from the New English translation.
Speaker 1: Look chapter fifteen, verses eleven to nineteen. Then Jesus said
Speaker 1: a man had two sons. The younger of them said
Speaker 1: to his father, father, give me the share of the
Speaker 1: estate that will belong to me. So he divided his
Speaker 1: asses between them. After a few days, the younger son
Speaker 1: guarded together all he had and left on a journey
Speaker 1: to a distant country. And there he squandered his world
Speaker 1: with his wild lifestyle. Then, after he spent everything, a
Speaker 1: severe famine took place in that country, and he began
Speaker 1: to be in need. So he went and worked for
Speaker 1: one of the citizens of the country, who sent him
Speaker 1: to his fields to feed pigs. He was longing to
Speaker 1: eat the charld pods. The pigs were eaten, but no
Speaker 1: one gave him anything. But when he came to his senses,
Speaker 1: he said, how many of my father's hide works have
Speaker 1: food enough to spare, But here I am dying from hunger.
Speaker 1: I will get up and go to my father and
Speaker 1: say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and
Speaker 1: against you. I no longer am worthy to be called
Speaker 1: your son. Treat me like one of your hight sevants
Speaker 1: belaved the reading of the Wage of God, thanks to go.
Speaker 2: Don't be trapped? Have you ever a pause to think
Speaker 2: about your daily choices and what their outcomes would be.
Speaker 2: There are so many things calling for our attention and
Speaker 2: resources every day, but our very lives, time, money, and
Speaker 2: other resources are limited and cannot satisfy every demand. Each
Speaker 2: one of us makes choices now and then and inevitably
Speaker 2: forgoes alice. But it's needful to question where our decisions
Speaker 2: are leading us. It will interest you to know that
Speaker 2: life decisions are never experimental. They are no clinical trials.
Speaker 2: We definitely will end up living with the outcomes of
Speaker 2: our decisions. The outcomes are other experimental resources you can
Speaker 2: easily discard and start all over again. That is why
Speaker 2: we must be intentional about every decision of today. Consider
Speaker 2: the plight and the misery of the younger of the
Speaker 2: two sons, of whom Jesus told a parable in Luke,
Speaker 2: chapter number fifteen, verse eleven through thirty two. His predicament
Speaker 2: is a hard lesson enough to know that not every way,
Speaker 2: not every dream, not every aspiration or option that appeals
Speaker 2: to our senses, ego or emotions is worth pursuing. A
Speaker 2: son whose father owns many sevens is having plenty of
Speaker 2: food to eat and even more to spay, now finds
Speaker 2: himself caring for pigs in a strange land and experiencing
Speaker 2: a near death hunger to the extent of desiring the
Speaker 2: food giving to the pigs. But he was enough, absolutely unimaginable,
Speaker 2: But that was the reality he had to face for
Speaker 2: his decisions to move to a far country with an
Speaker 2: inheritance that was not even due him yet, just so
Speaker 2: he could have his own way instead of being under
Speaker 2: the control and care of his father. Beloved, you have
Speaker 2: an opportunity to make amends today if you are on
Speaker 2: any wrong part way of life. The prodigal's son received
Speaker 2: his decision and returned home. You can't do that today
Speaker 2: before it's too late. Are you aware that there is
Speaker 2: a vas for your creation and a time bound purpose
Speaker 2: for your existence. None of us has any idea when
Speaker 2: we will exit this world to give account of our
Speaker 2: lifetime choices, Beloved, This life is too short to be
Speaker 2: spent time and tasting everything that is seemingly captivating. It's
Speaker 2: too precious and brief to spend chasing everything that is
Speaker 2: attractive at the expense of your real purpose, the makers
Speaker 2: intention for your creation. Preasures one, don't allow yourself to
Speaker 2: get caught up following other people to their destinations if
Speaker 2: they are not going in your direction. Pathways and move on.
Speaker 2: Don't allow yourself to be caught up in pleasing others,
Speaker 2: even when your engagements with them is counterproductive to your destiny.
Speaker 2: You can't use them as an excuse one day. You
Speaker 2: can't blame any one when in regret it might just
Speaker 2: be too late to start again on the right pathways,
Speaker 2: the ways of purpose and destiny, the ways of the Creator.
Speaker 2: So len to say goodbye if and when you have to.
Speaker 2: Like the case of the prodigal son, the things that
Speaker 2: appeal to us today may not ultimately provide a kind
Speaker 2: of pleasure we expect from them. True and long lasting
Speaker 2: pleasure can only be derived from fulfilling the Creator's intention
Speaker 2: for our lives. True satisfaction in this life can only
Speaker 2: be derived from staying in the pathways God desires for you.
Speaker 2: All else are just traps to keep you away from
Speaker 2: your true self as designed by the Creator. So when
Speaker 2: next you are making a choice, be intentional. Avoid getting
Speaker 2: trapped by sensuality, seek to please the Maker, and you
Speaker 2: forever live enjoy and fulfillment. God bless you beloved. Let's
Speaker 2: take our memory verse together from Proverbs Captain number sixteen,
Speaker 2: the verse twenty five from the American King James version.
Speaker 2: He says, there is a way that seems right to
Speaker 2: a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Speaker 2: Belive a less shay with a prayer. Father, Please thank
Speaker 2: you for exposing us to the implications of our daily decisions.
Speaker 2: Our prayer is that you give us wisdom to make
Speaker 2: the right choices on a daily basis, the choices that
Speaker 2: will lead us into fulfilling our purposes, choices that will
Speaker 2: avoid or regret, choices that will bring fulfillment, and ultimately,
Speaker 2: choices that will please you. Father. Will thank you in
Speaker 2: Jesus might say Name, Amen and Amen.
Speaker 1: Love it. Indeed, true satisfaction in this life I can
Speaker 1: only be truly derived from staying in the pathways of
Speaker 1: God's desires. For you go out there and choose the
Speaker 1: path of God. Kindly continue tuning in to Radio Ati today,
Speaker 1: for content has been carefully selected to edify, refresh, and
Speaker 1: enlighten you for your daily work with the Lord till
Speaker 1: the same time tomorrow. God bless and keep you have
Speaker 1: a fruitful day. Shalom.